No abstract available.
Obesity*

No abstract available.
Primary Health Care*

BACKGROUND: With the increasing numbers of foreign residents and tourists in Korea, the need of medical care systems for foreign patients seems to be growing, but there are few studies related with foreigners staying in Korea so far. This study was conducted to obtain the basic clinical data of foreign patients for the better medical care of them. METHODS: This study is an analysis of 1,405 outpatients in International(Foreign) Clinic of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital from Jan. 1 1994 to Dec. 31 1996. Patient charts were reviewed and analyzed. RESULTS: Of the total of 1,405 cases, 833 cases(59.3%) were males and 572 cases(40.7%) were females. The largest age group was the 4th decades, which were 408 cases(29.0%). By racial grouping, Japanese were the largest, accounting for 507 cases(36.1%) of all, followed by Europeans(including Oceanians) with 384 cases(27.3%) and North Americans with 335 cases (23.8%). The total number of hospital visits was 3,823. According to departments, Family Medicine had 968 visits(25.3%) of all, follewed by Pediatrics with 503 visits(13.2%), Internal Medicine 406visits(10.6%) and Dermatology 355visits(9.3%). The most common diagnoses were preventive medical cares such as general medical examination(6.0%), vaccination(4.5%), antenatal care(3.4%) and special investigations (3.1%), followed by acute infectious diseases such as acute upper respiratory infection including acute pharyngitis(7.4%), bronchitis(5.0%), infectious diarrhea(3.6%) and otitis media(2.9%) among top 20 ranks. preventive medical cares such as general medical examination and vaccination were more common in Family Medicine, and acute infectious diseases such as acute upper respiratory infection and bronchitis were more common in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. preventive medical cares and acute infectious diseases were common without any differences between advanced countries(North America, Europe and Oceania, Japan) and developing countries(Asia, Africa, Latin America), except infectious diarrhea. Hospital visits due to infectious diarrhea were much more frequent among advanced countries (4.3% in Japan, 3.4% in the others) than developing countries(0.9%). CONCLUSIONS: According to the results, it showed the certain characteristics of the high medical need about preventive medical care and acute infectious diseases among foreign patients staying in Korea. It also shows the need of family physicians who could play important roles in practicing preventive medical care and acute common diseases for foreigners. Therefore it is believed that further studies for foreign patients in Korea will be necessary and should be conducted in the future.
Africa ; Americas ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Bronchitis ; Communicable Diseases ; Dermatology ; Diagnosis ; Diarrhea ; Emigrants and Immigrants ; Europe ; Female ; Humans ; Internal Medicine ; Japan ; Korea ; Male ; Oceania ; Otitis ; Outpatients* ; Pediatrics ; Physicians, Family ; Vaccination

BACKGROUND: With the increasing numbers of foreign residents and tourists in Korea, the need of medical care systems for foreign patients seems to be growing, but there are few studies related with foreigners staying in Korea so far. This study was conducted to obtain the basic clinical data of foreign patients for the better medical care of them. METHODS: This study is an analysis of 1,405 outpatients in International(Foreign) Clinic of Kangbuk Samsung Hospital from Jan. 1 1994 to Dec. 31 1996. Patient charts were reviewed and analyzed. RESULTS: Of the total of 1,405 cases, 833 cases(59.3%) were males and 572 cases(40.7%) were females. The largest age group was the 4th decades, which were 408 cases(29.0%). By racial grouping, Japanese were the largest, accounting for 507 cases(36.1%) of all, followed by Europeans(including Oceanians) with 384 cases(27.3%) and North Americans with 335 cases (23.8%). The total number of hospital visits was 3,823. According to departments, Family Medicine had 968 visits(25.3%) of all, follewed by Pediatrics with 503 visits(13.2%), Internal Medicine 406visits(10.6%) and Dermatology 355visits(9.3%). The most common diagnoses were preventive medical cares such as general medical examination(6.0%), vaccination(4.5%), antenatal care(3.4%) and special investigations (3.1%), followed by acute infectious diseases such as acute upper respiratory infection including acute pharyngitis(7.4%), bronchitis(5.0%), infectious diarrhea(3.6%) and otitis media(2.9%) among top 20 ranks. preventive medical cares such as general medical examination and vaccination were more common in Family Medicine, and acute infectious diseases such as acute upper respiratory infection and bronchitis were more common in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. preventive medical cares and acute infectious diseases were common without any differences between advanced countries(North America, Europe and Oceania, Japan) and developing countries(Asia, Africa, Latin America), except infectious diarrhea. Hospital visits due to infectious diarrhea were much more frequent among advanced countries (4.3% in Japan, 3.4% in the others) than developing countries(0.9%). CONCLUSIONS: According to the results, it showed the certain characteristics of the high medical need about preventive medical care and acute infectious diseases among foreign patients staying in Korea. It also shows the need of family physicians who could play important roles in practicing preventive medical care and acute common diseases for foreigners. Therefore it is believed that further studies for foreign patients in Korea will be necessary and should be conducted in the future.
Africa ; Americas ; Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Bronchitis ; Communicable Diseases ; Dermatology ; Diagnosis ; Diarrhea ; Emigrants and Immigrants ; Europe ; Female ; Humans ; Internal Medicine ; Japan ; Korea ; Male ; Oceania ; Otitis ; Outpatients* ; Pediatrics ; Physicians, Family ; Vaccination

No abstract available.
Functional Food* ; Prescriptions*

Malignant schwannoma is a malignant neoplasm of nerve sheath origin. It develops in an unaltered nerve or in a neurofibroma, and rarely, if ever, within a neurilernmoma. We experienced a malignant schwannoma in a 75-year-old man without von Recklinghausen's syndrome. The lesion was solitary and polypoid, fungating nodule in the posterior portion of the left thigh, The tumor cells had some features of Schwann cells and positively stained to S-100 protein and neuron-specific enolase. Complete excision was performed but the associated nerve could not be demonstrable.
Aged ; Humans ; Neurilemmoma* ; Neurofibroma ; Phosphopyruvate Hydratase ; S100 Proteins ; Schwann Cells ; Thigh

Piroxicam is a new nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug(NSAID) and widely used in the management of rheumatoid arthritis and osteaorthritis. We experienced. two cases of photosensitive dermatitis developed while taking piroxicam. Both had pruritic and eczematous skin lesions on sun-exposed areas and showed positive reactions to 0. 1 % piroxicam solution in photopatch test in contrast with control group, which suggest a photoallergy mechanism. To our knowledge, these are the first reported cases in the Korean literature.
Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Dermatitis ; Dermatitis, Photoallergic* ; Piroxicam ; Skin

This report is a clinical review of 58 patients suffering from frostbite, who were treated at the department orthopedic surgery, Seoul City Dong Bu Hospital from November 1982 to March 1985. The results are as follows: 1. The male to female sex ratio was 13.5:l. 2. The majority of the patients (72%) were decades between 30 and 50. 3. Frostbite began on November and registered the highest incidence in January, the lowest temperature of the year. 4. The most commonly affected region was the lower extremities, bilaterally. 5. The average duration of exposure in cold weather was 23 days, 6. The average hospitalization period was 84 days. 7. Among the 58 patients, 14 patients were treated by conservative treatment, 14 patients by closed amputation and 25 patients by open amputation.
Amputation ; Clinical Study ; Female ; Frostbite ; Hospitalization ; Humans ; Incidence ; Lower Extremity ; Male ; Orthopedics ; Seoul ; Sex Ratio ; Weather

No abstract available.
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell* ; Cell Line* ; Suramin*

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