No abstract available.
Female ; Hysterectomy, Vaginal*

PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to investigate attitudes toward death according to personality types and to suggest the need to develop related hospice programs. METHODS: Personality types were identified by the Korean version of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Form G. A questionnaire with 26 five-point Likert items was used to survey participants' attitudes toward death. RESULTS: The ESFP personality type was most common (20%) among available 100 participants. Significant differences were observed in the attitudes towards death preparation according to personality type s. Participants with personality preference types E, T and J showed positive attitudes (P<0.05) toward death, but no significant differences were shown based on the SN index. CONCLUSION: The attitudes toward death differed by personality types. Therefore, this study points to the need to develop diverse hospice programs based on the personality types.
Hospice Care ; Personality Inventory ; Surveys and Questionnaires

Peripheral nerve injury occurs mostly in company with tendon and muscle injuries, fractures, or dislocations. Because of the disabilities and socioeconomic loss caused by such injuries, much attention must be paid to the initial treatment, and later to the reconstruction and rehabilitation. At department of Orthopedic Surgery, Seoul National University Hospital, 336 patients of nerve lesion were treated from Jan, 1980 to Dec, 1988. Among them 128 patients were nerve compression syndrome (carpal tunnel 52 patients, cubital tunnel 40 patients, thoracic outlet 16 patients, others 20 patients), and 50 patients were brachial plexus injury, and 168 cases were peripheral nerve injury. 50 patients of the peripheral nerve injury were treated with reconstruction and 118 patients were treatred with neurorrhaphy, nerve graft, and neurolysis. Of the 118 patients, 94 patients were followed up for more than one year, and the results of neurorrhaphy, nerve graft and neurolysis were analyzed. In 46 patients (73.0%) of the patients treated with neurorrhaphy, 7 patients (58.3%) with nerve graft, and 15 patients (78.9%) with neurolysis, good or excellent results were obtained.
Brachial Plexus ; Dislocations ; Humans ; Nerve Compression Syndromes ; Orthopedics ; Peripheral Nerve Injuries ; Peripheral Nerves ; Rehabilitation ; Seoul ; Tendons ; Transplants

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory systemic disease of young or middle aged adults, characterized by destructive and proliferative changes in the synovial membrane, periarticular structures, skeletal muscle and perineural sheath. Eventually, the joints are destroyed, ankylosed and deformed. Therfore, the aim of treatment is to keep the inflammatory process at a minimum, thereby preserving the joint motion, maintaining the health of muscle supplying motor power about the joint and preventing secondary joint stiffness and deformity. Surgical treatment in rheumatoid arthritis has progressed and there have been advances in the relief of pain and increase in the range of motion. Among them the results of total knee arthroplasty (TKA) have improved steadily during the past decade due to refinements in design, fixation, and surgical technique. At orthopedic department of seoul national university hospital, we performed 31 total knee replacement in 18 patients who had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis during the period from Aug. 1982 to Dec. 1988. Following results were obtained. 1. Knee score increased from 37.8 to 76.9. 2. Tibio-femoral angle was corrected from 0.9° valgus to 5.3° valgus. 3. Conplications were peroneal nerve palsy in 3 knees, instability in 1 knee, tuberculous arthritis in 1 knee. 4. In 25 out of 31 knees, good functional results were obtained.
Adult ; Arthritis ; Arthritis, Rheumatoid ; Arthroplasty ; Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee ; Congenital Abnormalities ; Humans ; Joints ; Knee ; Middle Aged ; Muscle, Skeletal ; Orthopedics ; Paralysis ; Peroneal Nerve ; Range of Motion, Articular ; Seoul ; Synovial Membrane

Reversible splenial lesion syndrome can be caused by viral infection. Rubella generally occurs in childhood, and it is rarely accompanied by neurological complications in adulthood. A 35-year-old man visited our hospital due to conjunctival injection, mild fever, and headache 3 days after experiencing skin rash. Brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed distinct lesions involving white matter in the splenium of the corpus callosum approximately 3 days following the onset of symptoms. Enzyme immunoassay performed on serum and CSF samples was positive for rubella virus IgM. A follow-up brain MRI was performed 24 days after the onset of symptoms, and reduced lesion size with decreased signals were observed on diffusion weighted image. This case showed that rubella infection can result in reversible splenial lesion accompanied by only mild neurological symptoms.
Rubella

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to determine firstly the characteristics of esthetic lips in Korean females and secondly to measure the changes of the lips before and after anterior segmental osteotomy in bimaxillary protruded patients. METHODS: Samples consisted of 30 models and 26 nonmodels, and 10 patients who had received anterior segmental osteotomy. Twelve linear measurements, 5 angular measurements, and the lip perimeter and area were measured. These results were compared for each group using unpaired and paired t-tests. RESULTS: Full face width, nose to chin, upper vermilion height and angle, lateral heights at the point of the tips of Cupid's bow, central bow angle, and the lower lip to chin lengths were significantly greater in nonmodels than in models. However, overall lip width, lower vermilion height and angle, tip-to-tip of Cupid's bow lip perimeter, and lower vermilion area were greater in models than in nonmodels. Comparison of before and after anterior segmental osteotomy revealed that the values for the upper vermilion and lateral heights, the angle to Cupid's bow tip lengths, and upper vermilion area of post-operative patients had become similar to those of Korean female models. Our findings demonstrated that Korean female models have a fuller lower vermilion & thinner upper vermilion compared with nonmodel controls, as determined by the vermilion heights, angles, and areas. CONCLUSIONS: It will be helpful for clinicians to use these measurements as guidelines for improving patients' facial esthetics.
Chin ; Esthetics ; Female* ; Humans ; Lip* ; Nose ; Osteotomy*

We had experienced a case of traumatic myositis ossificans arising in right masseter muscle, inferior to zygomatic arch occurred on 25 year old male. He had some trauma on the site one year ago and visited with complaint of mouth opening limitation and swelling. Palpable mass with facial disfigurement was noted. and several ovoid radiopaque masses were revealed on C.T. examination. On histopathologic examination, multiple bone trabeculae with osteoblasts in its periphery was noted in connective tissues and invaded to neighbouring muscles, but any chondroid components were not revealed.
Adult ; Connective Tissue ; Humans ; Male ; Masseter Muscle* ; Mouth ; Muscles ; Myositis Ossificans* ; Myositis* ; Osteoblasts ; Zygoma

One of the sequelae of spinal cord trauma which start soon after the onset of injury is the loss of the calcium from bone. Bone mineral and matrix resorption causes negative calcium balance, and eventually osteoporosis. Etidronate disodium(etidronate) is an oral diphosphonate compound known to reduce bone resorption through the inhibition of osteoclasic activity. Since continuous oral treatment with high doses of etidronate may lead to the impairment of bone mineralization and the cessation of bone remodeling, a ideal therapeutic regimen consist of the intermittent cyclical administration of the diphosphonate in a dose that inhibits bone resorption. To assess the effect of etidronate on bone metabolism and bone mineral density after spinal cord injury, we studied two groups of 7 spinal cord injury(SCI) patients with etidronate and 7 SCI patients without etidronate. Seven patients of treatment group received oral etidronate (5 mg/kg/day) for 2 weeks followed by a 10-week period in which no drugs were given. This sequence was repeated 4 times, for a total of 48 weeks. The results showed that the patients receiving etidronate had siginificant decrease in the serum osteocalcin(OC), urine deoxypyridinoline(D-PYD) level but no increase in their mean bone density. We can carefully conclude that intermittent cyclical therapy with etidronate siginificantly reduces bone metabolic rate and inhibit bone mineral loss on osteoporosis in spinal cord injury patients.
Bone Density ; Bone Remodeling ; Bone Resorption ; Calcification, Physiologic ; Calcium ; Etidronic Acid* ; Humans ; Metabolism ; Osteoporosis* ; Spinal Cord Injuries* ; Spinal Cord*

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between menarche and cervical vertebral maturation. METHODS: Lateral cephalograms of 67 young korean girls within the range of 1 year before or after their menarche were gathered. The concavity of the cervical vertebrae base and the ratio of the base length to the 3rd and 4th cervical vertebrae anterior height were measured and analyzed. RESULTS: The mean measured values were as follows; concavity of the 3rd cervical vertebrae base: 1.27 (+/- 0.18) mm, concavity of the 4th cervical vertebrae base: 1.06 (+/- 0.15) mm, ratio of the base length to the 3rd cervical vertebrae anterior height: 0.73 (+/- 0.06) and ratio of the base length to the 4th cervical vertebrae anterior height: 0.70 (+/- 0.05). There was a significant increase in the ratio of the base length to the 3rd vertebrae anterior height and the base concavity of the 3rd and 4th cervical vertebrae during the period of 1 year before to 1 year after their menarche. CONCLUSIONS: These characteristics of the 3rd and 4th cervical vertebrae on the lateral cephalogram can provide useful clues on evaluating the growth stage.
Cervical Vertebrae ; Female ; Menarche ; Spine

No abstract available.