BACKGROUND: The blunted tip of a reusable with multiple uses can cause problems with the passing procedure in arthroscopic Bankart repair. This study assessed the advantage of Scorpion with a 70° arthroscope in arthroscopic Bankart repair compared to hook typed suture passer. METHODS: Scorpion in 19 patients, the hook type suture passer (conventional group) in 18 patients were used. All patients underwent the same procedure except for the type of suture passer used. Another different point of the procedure were telescopes and the number of portals used; three arthroscopic portals (posterior, anterorsuperiorlateral, and mid-anterior) and a 30° arthroscope in the conventional group, but two portals and a 70° arthroscope as well as the 30° one in the Scorpion group. The surgery time and the surgical complications including an iatrogenic axillary nerve injury were recorded. RESULTS: The Scorpion group showed a significant decrease in surgery time compared to the conventional group. In contrast to the conventional group, Scorpion provided an easy estimation of the exit of suture passing, no iatrogenic labral injury during the passing procedure with straight movement and the sharp tip of the knife installed. Iatrogenic supraspinatus injuries could be avoided when making an accessory anteosuperiorlateral portal due to the 70° arthroscope. CONCLUSIONS: In arthroscopic Bankart repair, the use of the Scorpion suture passer and a 70° arthroscope can reduce the surgery time, avoid unnecessary supraspinatus injury, and avoid iatrogenic axillary nerve damage through the relatively easy and precise suture passing and saving of the anterosuperior portal.
Arthroscopes* ; Arthroscopy ; Humans ; Scorpions* ; Sutures* ; Telescopes

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Injections, Intralesional* ; Male ; Penile Induration* ; Triamcinolone Acetonide* ; Triamcinolone* ; Verapamil*

Cancer has become a major cause of death in Korea since 1989. Despite the major advances in the treatment of cancer, prevention and early detection is the most effective strategy to decrease the mortality from cancer. The indicence of invasive cervical cancer has declined since the 1950s, and indirect evidence suggests that this decline is the result of the institution of screening with cervical smear. However, cervical cancer continues to be a major health problem in the developing world today, where screening is not universal. Among Korean women, the incidence of cervical cancer is still high and was the 3rd most common cancer following stomach and breast cancer in 2000. If preinvasive conditions would be included, the disease would be the most frequent. The first organized screening programmes were initiated in 1949 at British Columbia, Canada. Since then, cervical cancer screening programmes have been implemented in almost all developed countries. In Korea, opportunistic screening began in the late 1950s, and organized screening began in 1998 by Health Insurance without a consensus meeting. The guidelines for the screening of cervical cancer were developed by National Cancer Center and the Koean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology in May, 2001 ; and the national screening programmes were developed by the Supporting Evaluation Board of National Cancer Screening Program in December, 2001. This article introduces these programmes.
Breast Neoplasms ; British Columbia ; Canada ; Cause of Death ; Consensus ; Developed Countries ; Early Detection of Cancer ; Female ; Gynecology ; Humans ; Incidence ; Insurance, Health ; Korea ; Mass Screening* ; Mortality ; Obstetrics ; Papanicolaou Test ; Stomach ; Uterine Cervical Neoplasms* ; Vaginal Smears

The primary factors determining nasal tip outline are shape and position of the alar cartilages. The relation of the alar cartilages to the upper lateral cartilages, septum, and soft tissue envelope defines the conformation of the tip-lobule complex. Plunging tip is a condition as long nose, tip drooping and becomes more accentuated with aging. Hanging columella is a prominent downward bowing of the columella. Plunging tip and hanging columella are common causes of acute nasolabial angle.Correction of the plunging tip in the long nose is usually achieved satisfactorily through shortening of the lateral walls by excising an adequate amount of cartilage from the septal, lateral, and alar cartilage. Tip rotation in a cephalic direction can be achieved commonly by resection of the cephalic portion of the lateral crura, excision of a triangular segment of the caudal margin of the septum and a cartilaginous septal transfixion incision involving excision of a superiorly based triangle of septum with cephalic rotation of the entire nasal lobule.Modification of the caudal margin of the septum is done to achieve three goals: (1) cephalic rotation of the tip, (2) shortening of nasal length, and (3) alterations in the nasolabial angle. We have elevated and rotated in a cephalic direction nasal tip by means of resection of cephalic portion of lateral crura, resection of the caudal margin of the septum and mucous membrane, and /or invagination technique for correction of the plunging tip and hanging columella. From March 1996 to February 1998, we have performed the tip-plasty in 7 patients of the plunging tip and hanging columella. We have found good cosmetic results with improved nasolabial angle.
Aging ; Cartilage ; Humans ; Mucous Membrane ; Nose

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Diagnosis* ; Sleep Apnea, Obstructive*

Chondroblastoma is a rare primary bone tumor and that of sacrum was reported only 4 cases in the literatures. We report the case of 16 year old female with chondroblastoma of sacrum. The lesion was treated by partial excision of sacrum and coccyx as a block at 2nd sacral segment level. The excised tumor was round lobulated mass with diameter of 6 cm, and was consisited by yellowish cartilagenous tissue with scattered focus of calcification. Histological structure showed the proliferation of chondroblasts in chondroid ground substance with scattered multinucleasted giant cells. The ground substance showed the areas of calcification. During 22 months of follow up period, neither evidence of local recurrence nor metastasis could be boserved.
Chondroblastoma ; Chondrocytes ; Coccyx ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Giant Cells ; Humans ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Recurrence ; Sacrum

While the therapeutic efficacy of antipsychotic drugs is not in doubt, a variety of undesirable side effects are common. They can be a disincentive to good compliance with treatment, resulting in increased possibilities for relapse and hospitalization. They can be distressing and disabling and thus interfering with patient safety and quality of life. Furthermore, they may be counter-therapeutic by exacerbating the condition that the drug was prescribed for. In this article, we will provide an overview of management of antipsychotic-induced side effects, with a particular emphasis on the most common side effects as well as less common but serious side effects. In addition, some practical issues regarding the management of side effects will b discussed.
Antipsychotic Agents ; Compliance ; Hospitalization ; Motivation ; Patient Safety ; Quality of Life ; Recurrence

No abstract available.
Free Tissue Flaps*

No abstract available.
Fertility* ; Humans ; Infertility, Male* ; Male ; Male* ; Sperm Motility* ; Spermatozoa*

We have experienced a case of neurofibromatosis with unusual giant pigmentation, which presents itself as a 28 cm x 40 cm sized, serrated bordered light brownish patch speckled with small dark hyperpigmented macules on his back. Histopathologic examinations of light brown patch and speckles showed only an increase in basal melanin pigmentation.
Melanins ; Neurofibromatoses* ; Pigmentation*