Female urethral injury are very uncommon and encountered during traffic accident, trauma, instrumentation, operation and delivery. Treatment modalities are determined by the level of urethral injury. The result was better in the cases of rapid operative treatment than delayed one. In this report the clinical findings, patterns of injury and surgical managementof 4 cases were reviewed.
Accidents, Traffic ; Female* ; Humans

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Cholangiocarcinoma ; Hepatectomy

No abstract available.
Hypothermia* ; Kidney*

We wish to report 8 cages of calyceal diverticula which were diagnosed tentatively among cases of I.V.P. during the period from January 1965 to December 1971 at St. Mary's Hospital. There were 5 male and 3 female patients. The right kidney was involved in all patients The upper calyx was involved in 6 patients and the middle calyx in 2 patients. Lumbar or abdominal pain was present in 5 patients. 1 of the 8 patients had undergone appendectomy with removal of a norma1 appendix prior to diagnosis.Pyuria were found in 3 patients and one patient had single stone within the diverticulum.
Abdominal Pain ; Appendectomy ; Appendix ; Diverticulum* ; Female ; Humans ; Kidney ; Male

The increase of health care expenditures is an important problem in the almost countries. Also, suppression of the health care expenditures is an important problem in the health field of Korea since the national health insurance for total people in 1989. Thus, it is very important to grasp the change of the health care expenditures of family and proportions of the health care expenditures to total expenditures of family, because they are the basis of national health care expenditures in Korea. While the health care expenditures of urban family were increased during 1980-1993 by 12.8% annually, the total expenditures of urban family were increased by 14.8% annually. consequently, the proportions of health care expenditures to total expenditures were decreased from 5.98% to 4.76%. The proportions of health care expenditure for 3 years to come were predicted to 4.75% in 1994, 4.67% in 1995, and 4.63% in 1996 by the time-series ana]ysis. That is, it was predicted that they would be decreasing slowly. The product elasticity of health care expenditure was less than 1 in the multiple regression analysis, so the health care is normal good rather than superior good. Therefore, it seems that the household economy is able to bear the expense pursuing the improvement of quality of health care by actualizing the medical insurance fee.
Delivery of Health Care* ; Elasticity ; Family Characteristics ; Fees and Charges ; Hand Strength ; Health Expenditures* ; Humans ; Insurance ; Korea ; National Health Programs ; Quality of Health Care

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Knee* ; Synovitis, Pigmented Villonodular*

We report herein a case of bullous pemphigoid(BP) associated with Graves' disease(GD) The patient was 43-year-old female who had suffered frorn GD for 8 years. She had annular, erythematous atrophic plaques with a margin of small vesicles on the frontal and temporal areas, Histopathologic findings of the skin lesion showed subepiderrnal bulla, and numerous eosinophilic infiltrate in the bulla cavity and dermis. Direct immunofluorescent study of perilesional skin revealed linear IgG deposition at the dermo epidermal junction. We think our case shows a higher than chance association of BP and GD because both are basecl on autoimmune mechanism.
Adult ; Dermis ; Eosinophils ; Female ; Graves Disease* ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G ; Pemphigoid, Bullous* ; Skin

The high incidence antigert Jr" was first identified in 1970 by Stroup and Macllroy. Anti-Jr~ was immune antibodies developed by transfusion or pregnancy and occasionally cause hemolytic disease of the newborn and transfusion reaction, but these usually mild. We are reporting the first case of anti-Jra in Korea, which was identified in pregnant woman with transfusion history. The 35 year old pregnant woman(G6P4L1D3A1) admitted to treat for incompetent internal os of cervix on department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Prenatal irregular antibody screening was negative. One unit of RBC was transfused at 21 gestational weeks for correction of anemia. One week later, irregular antibody was detected in her serum. The antibody reacted best by indirect antiglobulin test and panagglutinated all identified cells. The titer was 1 : 8. The antibody was identified as anti-Jr by Dr. Osaka Red Cross Center. Her phenotype of Jra was Jr(a-), but there was no Jr(a-) person in her family. She might have anti-Jra in her serum with undetectable level due to multiple pregnancies. In this case, the development of anti-Jr was stimulated by one unit of RBC transfusion with anamnestic reaction. The titer of anti-Jr was gradually reduced during pregnant period. She delivered at 37 gestational weeks by cesarian section. The baby was clinically well at birth and typed as Jr(a+).
Adult ; Anemia ; Antibodies ; Blood Group Incompatibility ; Cervix Uteri ; Coombs Test ; Female ; Gynecology ; Humans ; Incidence ; Infant, Newborn ; Korea ; Mass Screening ; Obstetrics ; Parturition ; Phenotype ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy, Multiple ; Pregnant Women* ; Red Cross

The Duodenal diverticulum is the rare cause of the common bile duct obstruction. We experienced a case of the diverticulum of the second portion of duodenum in a 59-year-old male, who complained recurrent attacks of right upper abdominal pain and fever since 16 months prior to admission. Duodenoscopic finding and UGI study revealed a typical duodenal diverticulum just side to the papilla of Vater. Diverticulectomy and cholecystectomy was performed and after than, he has been free front above mentioned symptoms. We reported a case of duodenal diverticulum which caused recurrent common bile duct obstruction.
Abdominal Pain ; Cholecystectomy ; Common Bile Duct* ; Diverticulum* ; Duodenum ; Fever ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged

994 cases of essential hypertension and renal hypertension admitted to St Mary's Hospital, Catholic Medical College, during the period from January 1963 to September 1970'were analyzed. Among 142 cases of renal hypertension, 81 cases were treated at the department of medicine 61 cases at department of urology. The results are summarized as follows: 1. The percentage of renal hypertension in total number of hypertension was 15.3%. 2. The ratio of the male to the female was 2 to 1. The incidence of renal hypertention was highest in the age group of 31 to 40 (26%). The majority of the renal hypertension (71%) were among the age of 31 to 60. 3. The ratio of renal hypertension of the parenchymal origin to the vascular origin was 4 to 1. 4. The incidences of renal hypertension in various diseases were as follows: Among renal parenchymal diseases, 50% in polycystic kidney, 33% in chronic pyelonephritis, 14% in hydronephrosis and pyonephrosis, 13% in renal cell carcinoma and 10% in renal tuberculosis. Among renovascular hypertension, 54% in atherosclerotic plaque, 23% in fibromuscular hyperplasia and 15% in thrombus 5. 29 cases (49%) had complications due to hypertension. 6. 44 cases (72%) of the tota1 61 cases underwent surgical procedures Among them 25 cases(57%) were cured, 12 cases (27%) improved; therefore, a total of' 37 cases (84%) were catecorized as successful. 7. The operative cure rates in individual renal hypertensive disease were as follow 75% in renal tuberculosis, 56% in hydronephrosis. and pyonephrosis, 50% in renal cell carcinoma. chronic pyelonephritis and renovascular hypertension respectively 8. The success of the operation depended upon duration of renal hypertension, ,being higher in those with shorter duration. In those with duration less than one year the successful rate was 96% 9. The rate of success of the operation, in cases with complications was 47%.
Carcinoma, Renal Cell ; Female ; Humans ; Hydronephrosis ; Hyperplasia ; Hypertension ; Hypertension, Renal* ; Hypertension, Renovascular ; Incidence ; Male ; Plaque, Atherosclerotic ; Polycystic Kidney Diseases ; Pyelonephritis ; Pyonephrosis ; Thrombosis ; Tuberculosis, Renal ; Urology