1.Allergic contact dermatitis due to 8-methoxypsoralen(8-MOP).
In Joon LEE ; Yoon Kee PARK ; Sungbin IM ; Seung Kyung HANN
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1992;30(6):897-900
Allergic contact dermatitis due to 8-MOP is a rarely known si(ie effect of this widely used drug. Other known adverse reactions due to 8-MOP such as the oallergic dermatitis as well as some isolated cases of exanthema, papular eruptions, and astloma like symptoms are also sporadically reported. A 52-year-old man with vitiligo developed erythema to the UVA exposed 0.3% Oxoralen cream applied area. Prior to this episode, the patient had history of generalized burns after systernic PUVA therapy in 1983. Even after this experience, the patient had few more episodes of erythema at the site of 0.3%. Oxoralen cream application. We performed patch test and photopatch tests with Scandinavian series, 0.3% Oxoraler or am (as is), and diluted 8-MOP, 5-MOP, TMP solution. The result showed positive reactivity to 6-methylcoumarin, 8-MOP, as well as to 0.3% Oxoralen cream. The size of erythema was same in both irradiated areas which indicates an allergic contact dermatitis rather than photoallergic dermatitis or phototoxic dermatitis.
Burns
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Dermatitis
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Dermatitis, Allergic Contact*
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Dermatitis, Photoallergic
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Dermatitis, Phototoxic
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Erythema
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Exanthema
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Humans
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Methoxsalen
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Middle Aged
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Patch Tests
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PUVA Therapy
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Thymidine Monophosphate
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Vitiligo
2.Treatment of Cutaneous Vascular Lesions by the Flashlamp Pulsed Tunable Dye Laser ( SPTL - 1 ).
Seok June LEE ; In Joon LEE ; Sung Bin IM ; Yoon Kee PARK
Korean Journal of Dermatology 1995;33(5):859-866
BACKGROUND: Recent ad vances and innovation in laser technology encourages us to learn and use it experimentally and clinically. The pulsed dye laser(Candela SPTL-1) is a flashlamp excited dye laser, using the princ ples of selective photothermolysis that targets the abnormal microvascu lature of cutaneous lesions while sparing adjacent structures including the epidermis. The laseemits a 585nm wavelength, and has a pulse duration of 450 usec. It is now being widely used in the treatment of vascular diseases in the dermatology field. OBJECTIVE & METHOD : Buring the period of about 3 years from August 1994 to March 1992, at the out patient clinin of Department of Dermatology of Yonsei University. 252 patients who were treated with SPTL was analyzed to evaluate the clinical effects of the pulsed dye laser. Patient di@st.ributition f the cutaneous vascular lesions included 1fil pat.ients with nevui flammeus, 68 with telangcetasia, 15 with spider angima, 5 with strawberry hemangiona and 2 with cavernous hemangior ia. RESULTS: The results and summarized as follows : 1. Nevus flammeus 4b.7% of early childhood, 41.5% of late childhood and 47.3% of adults showed excellent or good results. 2. Telangiectasia 78.1% of patients she wed excellent or good results. 3. Spider angioma 66.7% of patients she wed excellent or good results. 4. Strawberry hemangioma and cavernous hemangioma Most, of the patients,howed fair or poor results. 5. Complications included hyperpigmentation(26.5%), hypopigmentation(1.6%) and atrophic scar(4.5% ). CONCLUSION: Our experince with pulsed dye laser during the last 3 years revealed that it was superior in treating vascular disease than other existing lasers.
Adult
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Dermatology
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Epidermis
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Fragaria
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Hemangioma
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Hemangioma, Cavernous
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Humans
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Lasers, Dye*
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Port-Wine Stain
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Spiders
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Telangiectasis
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Vascular Diseases
3.Comparative Analysis of Influencing Factors on Implementation of Mammography for Ordinary Women and Outpatients.
Young Im KIM ; Chang Hyun LEE ; Hye Sun JUNG ; Ji Yoon KIM
Journal of Korean Academy of Community Health Nursing 2006;17(1):56-64
PURPOSE: This study is to conduct a comparative analysis of influencing factors on the experience of mammography targeting ordinary women and outpatients. METHODS: The target subjects were 116 ordinary women and 105 outpatients, and the study period was around 8 months from May to December. RESULTS: When mammography experience was examined, it was found that mammography experience was conducted in 44.8% of ordinary women and 59.0% of outpatients, but this study showed that there was a statistically significant difference. When the relation between the characteristics of the targeted objects and the experience of mammography was examined, it was found that ordinary women have a lot of experience when they have regular exercises and a high health belief. On the other hand, in case of outpatients. mammography experience was more frequent in the older group. In addition, outpatients had experiences in breast-related diseases or high self-efficacy. It was also found that the influencing factors on the experience of mammography were a high health belief in case of ordinary women, and old ages and high self-efficacy in case of outpatients. CONCLUSIONS: In order to increase the rate of conducting early detection behavior for mammography, it is needed to conduct an intervention that increases health belief for ordinary women, while it is effective to conduct an intervention that increases self-efficacy for outpatients.
Breast Neoplasms
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Exercise
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Female
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Hand
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Humans
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Mammography*
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Outpatients*
4.Dietary Hypocalcemic Tetany.
Kyu Hyung LEE ; Chang Bin IM ; Yoon Taik KIM ; Keun Chan SOHN
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1984;27(5):483-487
No abstract available.
Tetany*
5.High Doses of UVA Suppress Contact Hypersensitivity.
Yoon Kee PARK ; Seung Kyung HANN ; Sungbin IM ; Hae Eul LEE ; Ik Byeong HAM
Annals of Dermatology 1991;3(2):96-106
Contact hypersensitivity (CH) responsiveness to 24-dinitro-l-fluorobenzene(DNFB)is depressed in mice sensitized through unexposed skin sites after exposure to high dose of ultraviolet B radiation(UVB). Exposure of mice to ultraviolet A(UVA) radiation in combination with 8-methoxypsoralen(8-MOP) also results in a systemic suppression of CH. Our study was designed to determine whether a high dose of UVA radiation alone can induce a systemic suppression of CH, and if so, which phase of CH response is influenced by UVA radiation. Relatively large doses of UVA(400, 600, 800J/cm²) induced significant systemic suppression of CH when DNFB was applied to UVA-unirradiated abdominal skin. The duration of the rest period after UVA exposure did not cause any significant change in systemic suppresion of CH. Functional analyses showed that lymph node cells(LNCs) obtained from donors that were sensitized on the unirradiated skin site with DNFB 5 days after UVA treatment transferred normal ear-swelling responsiveness to non-primed recipients, thus implying that high doses of UVA can induce systemic suppression which is not affected in the induction phase of CH but affected in the elicitation phase of CH. UVA irradiation de-creased Langerhans cell(LC) numbers significantly with a dose of 100J/cm² or greater. LNCs obtained from donors that were sensitized on the irradiated skin site with DNFB 5 days after UVA treatment did not transfer normal ear-swelling responsiveness to non-primed recipients. This phenomenon may be related to the decreased number of LC after UV treatment. To look for possible mediators impairing the elicitation phase of the CH reaction, we checked prostaglandin E(PGE) levels in serum after 800J/cm² irradiation. A high dose of UVA did not increase the serum PGE level in mice as much as UVB irradiation, in which a significant increase of PGE may affect CH response.
Animals
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Dermatitis, Contact*
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Dinitrofluorobenzene
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Humans
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Lymph Nodes
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Mice
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Prostaglandins E
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Skin
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Tissue Donors
6.High Doses of UVA Suppress Contact Hypersensitivity.
Yoon Kee PARK ; Seung Kyung HANN ; Sungbin IM ; Hae Eul LEE ; Ik Byeong HAM
Annals of Dermatology 1991;3(2):96-106
Contact hypersensitivity (CH) responsiveness to 24-dinitro-l-fluorobenzene(DNFB)is depressed in mice sensitized through unexposed skin sites after exposure to high dose of ultraviolet B radiation(UVB). Exposure of mice to ultraviolet A(UVA) radiation in combination with 8-methoxypsoralen(8-MOP) also results in a systemic suppression of CH. Our study was designed to determine whether a high dose of UVA radiation alone can induce a systemic suppression of CH, and if so, which phase of CH response is influenced by UVA radiation. Relatively large doses of UVA(400, 600, 800J/cm²) induced significant systemic suppression of CH when DNFB was applied to UVA-unirradiated abdominal skin. The duration of the rest period after UVA exposure did not cause any significant change in systemic suppresion of CH. Functional analyses showed that lymph node cells(LNCs) obtained from donors that were sensitized on the unirradiated skin site with DNFB 5 days after UVA treatment transferred normal ear-swelling responsiveness to non-primed recipients, thus implying that high doses of UVA can induce systemic suppression which is not affected in the induction phase of CH but affected in the elicitation phase of CH. UVA irradiation de-creased Langerhans cell(LC) numbers significantly with a dose of 100J/cm² or greater. LNCs obtained from donors that were sensitized on the irradiated skin site with DNFB 5 days after UVA treatment did not transfer normal ear-swelling responsiveness to non-primed recipients. This phenomenon may be related to the decreased number of LC after UV treatment. To look for possible mediators impairing the elicitation phase of the CH reaction, we checked prostaglandin E(PGE) levels in serum after 800J/cm² irradiation. A high dose of UVA did not increase the serum PGE level in mice as much as UVB irradiation, in which a significant increase of PGE may affect CH response.
Animals
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Dermatitis, Contact*
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Dinitrofluorobenzene
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Humans
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Lymph Nodes
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Mice
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Prostaglandins E
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Skin
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Tissue Donors
7.A Case of Congenital Hypoplastic Anemia.
Jae Wook LEE ; Soon Ok KANG ; Jee Sung KIM ; Im Ju KANG ; Seh Yoon JEONG
Journal of the Korean Pediatric Society 1989;32(5):724-729
No abstract available.
Anemia, Hypoplastic, Congenital*
8.The Effects of Cytoskeletons on the Cultured Human Melanocytes.
Sungbin IM ; Son Won BYEON ; Yoon Kee PARK ; Seung Hun LEE
Annals of Dermatology 1994;6(2):162-173
BACKGROUND: Cytoskeletons, the complex set of protein fibers found in the cytoplasm, have important roles in the movement of cells and subcellular structures and the generation of shapes. Melanocytes have numerous dendritic processes which are in direct contact with many keratinocytes and transfer the melanosomes into the neighboring keratinocytes. Little information is available on the structure and function of cytoskeletons, and the effects of ultraviolet light on the cytoskeletons of the melanocytes. OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to investigate the general cytoskeletal system of cultured melanocytes and to find out the effects of the cytoskeletal antagonists and UVB on the cytoskeletal system of the cultured melanocytes. METHODS: Melanocytes were cultured from adult foreskin and then exposed to various cytoskeletal antagonists and UVB radiation. The changes of the cultured melanocytes were evaluated by using phase contrast microscopy, immunofluorescence staining methods and electron microscopic examinations. RESULTS: Colchicine produced shortening of dendrites, stellate cellular contour and granular fluorescence of the tubulin. Cytochalasin D produced round cellular contour and granular fluorescence of the actin. Acrylamide produced disorganization of cytoplasmic constituents, but no specific fluorescent change was observed. Colchicine also had inhibitory effects on the vimentin. Cellular responses induced by these agents were reversible. UVB caused morphological changes of the melanocytes, but their effects on the organization of the cytoskeletal system could not be detected in this method. CONCLUSION: Microtubules are related to the dendritic movement of the melanocytes. Vimentin may be involved in the transfer of cellular organelles, probably including the melanosomes. Cytoskeletal antagonists produce their characteristic morphological changes to cultured melanocytes.
Acrylamide
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Actins
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Adult
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Colchicine
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Cytochalasin D
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Cytoplasm
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Cytoskeleton*
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Dendrites
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Fluorescence
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Fluorescent Antibody Technique
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Foreskin
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Humans*
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Keratinocytes
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Melanocytes*
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Melanosomes
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Methods
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Microscopy, Phase-Contrast
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Microtubules
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Organelles
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Tubulin
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Ultraviolet Rays
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Vimentin
9.A Comparision Between Fallopian Tube Sperm PerfusionFSP and Intrauterine InseminationIUI for the Treatment of Infertility.
Jong In LEE ; Young Moon HUR ; Eun Sook JEON ; Jung Im YOON
Korean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 2000;43(12):2121-2126
No abstract available.
Fallopian Tubes*
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Female
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Infertility*
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Spermatozoa*
10.In vitro antibacterial potency of teicoplanin by the disc diffusion method.
Pyung Han HWANG ; Jung Soo KIM ; Yang Keun LEE ; Mi Ae YOON ; Sam Im CHOI
Korean Journal of Infectious Diseases 1993;25(1):33-43
No abstract available.
Diffusion*
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Teicoplanin*