Antral web is a very rare cause of vomiting in child, known to be a congenital disorder caused by incomplete recanalization of embryonic foregut, and in almost cases treated surgically. Author experienced a case of antral web in a 4-year-old boy who had suffered from severe abdominal pain for 2 months, in whom erosive duodenitis was noted on endoscopic examination. The patient became symptomfree after 1 week of conservative treatment for duodenitis. No specific therapy was not required for the antral web. Author concluded that surgical treatment is indicated for the clinically severe cases.
Abdominal Pain ; Child* ; Child, Preschool ; Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities ; Duodenitis ; Humans ; Male ; Vomiting

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Dizziness* ; Pallor*

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After the percutaneous transarterial technique was introduced by Seldinger in 1953, the percutaneous transcatheter embolization technique was developed. Autologous clot, first used by Doppman in 1968 to occlude a spinal arteriovenous malformation, was quickly adopted for management of gastrointestinal hemorrhage, genitourinary hemorrhage, traumatic hemorrhage, and hemoptysis. The notable improvement of the angiographic techniques rendered the interventional treatment the mainstay in the management of bleeding. Interventional treatment can be a life-saving procedure for massive bleeding or an important adjunct in reducing blood loss during operation and occasionally radical treatment of bleeding diseases. The goal of embolotherapy is to reduce the pulse pressure in the bleeding artery while maintaining an enough collateral flow to preserve the tissue viability. A variety of embolic materials have been proved safe and effective. Gelfoam pledget, polyvinyl alcohol, and coil are most commonly used. Gelfoam powder, extremely small polyvinyl alcohol, and absolute alcohol should be used carefully because of the risk of mucosal ischemia and necrosis.
Arteries ; Arteriovenous Malformations ; Blood Pressure ; Embolization, Therapeutic ; Ethanol ; Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage ; Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable ; Hemoptysis ; Hemorrhage* ; Ischemia ; Necrosis ; Polyvinyl Alcohol ; Tissue Survival

Six cases of right external iliac and common femoral arterial thrombotic occlusions following transfemoral cardiac catheterization were found among the 117 infants and children with congenital heart disease. Physical findings of arterial thrombosis were lower extremity coldness and absence of femoral pulse, which appeared just after cardiac catheterization. Transcatheter local intrathrombotic infusion of Urokinase were done with 50000 IU bolus doses and 40000-50000 IU/h running doses. All 6 cases showed complete thrombolysis and re-establishment of femoral circulation. Three cases developed bleeding from arterial puncture sites, and were subsequently controlled properly by compression. No other complication was found. Our results suggest that local thrombolytic therapy with Urokinase is effective treatment method without significant complication for the infants and children with fresh thrombotic occlusions following cardiac catheterization and angiography.
Angiography ; Cardiac Catheterization ; Cardiac Catheters ; Catheterization* ; Catheters* ; Child* ; Heart Defects, Congenital ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Infant* ; Lower Extremity ; Methods ; Punctures ; Running ; Thrombolytic Therapy* ; Thrombosis ; Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator*

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Colon, Ascending*

In order to study the histogenesis of gastric carcinoma, and to find the correlationship between the gastric carcinoma and endocrine tumor of digestive tract, we performed immunoperoxidase staining for serotonin, somatostatin and gastrin respectively in the 34 cases of surgically resected gastric carcinoma. The results were as follows; 1) Endocrine cells were found in 26.5% (9/34) of the gastric adenocarcinoma, but in 58.6% (17/29) in the normal gastric mucosa near the cancer area. The occurrence of endocrine cells was less frequent in cancer than in the normal gastric mucosa. 2) Among the 15 cases of intestinal type adenocarcinoma, serotonin-positive cells were found in 2 cases, somatostatin-positive cells in 1 case and gastrin-positive cells in 1 case. Among 16 cases of diffuse type adenocarcinoma, gastrin-positive cells were found in 2 cases, and somatostatin-positive cells were found in 2 cases. 3) We concluded that, the endocrine cells are more frequently observed in the well differentiated gastric carcinoma than poorly differentiated carcinoma tissue. In summary, gastric carcinomas are supposed to arise from the totipotent stem cells of endoderm origin, and they have multidirectional property of differentiation into both endocrine and nonendocrine cells. Most of them differentiate into nonendocrine cells and only a few of them differentiate into endocrine cells.

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Brain Death* ; Brain*

The increased susceptibility in patients of chronic renal failure to infection has been reported to be attributed to defects in granulocyte and lymphocyte function and proliferative activity of hematopoietic cells. The definite cause of the frequent infection in uremic patients, however, is still controversial. The effect of uremic plasma on the aspect of the hematopoietic cells has been scarcely been studied. In the present study, mouse bone marrow was cultured with uremic plasma, to evaluate the effect of uremic plasma on the proliferative activity and morphological features of CFU-GM. The results obtained were as follows. 1) The number of colonies in group co-cultured with uremic plasma was more reduced than that of normal plasma group. 2) There was no difference between the group cultured with predialytic uremic plasma and that of postdialytic plasma in number of colonies, macroclusters and microclusters. 3) The forms of colony were granulocytic and monocytic forms at 5 day of culture. Electron microscopically, granulocytes disclosed electron dense azurophilic granules and electrolucent specific granules in the cytoplasm, and monocyte showed numerous vesicles and vacuoles in the cytoplasm which had finger-like projections. 4) The molecular weight of inhibitory factor in the uremic plasma was supposed to be less than 50,000 daltons.
Mice ; Animals

BACKGROUND: The warts may promptly return despite being treated with a myriad of destructive methods. The most successful treatment has been the intralesional injection of bleomycin sulfate, but unplessant side effects caused by the difficulty of infiltrating only the wart tissue have limited its use. OBJECTIVE: Our purpose was to determine the effects of bleopunciure technique in the treatment of warts. METHODS: We performed a multiple puncture technique using a 25 gauge hypodermic needle to introduce bleomycin hydrochloricle into warts. RESULTS: This technique resulted in elimination of 91.4% of a random series on 105 warts after a single treatment. Recurrence and side effects were not observed during a 1 year follow-up period. CONCLUSION: We experienced a superior technique for introducing Heomycin into the wart, which has resulted in the cure of a signficant number of warts following a sing treatment.
Bleomycin ; Follow-Up Studies ; Injections, Intralesional ; Needles ; Punctures ; Recurrence ; Warts*