Authors experienced a 59-year-old male patient with the lymphoma of the small iritestine which involved the adjoining mesenteric lymph nodes, the parietaI pleura, and the skin. The skin lesions, simulating necrotizing angiitis, were deep purple colored, asymptomatic, tense, hemorrhagic bullae with soft consistency on the both thighs and left infraorbital area. He had extranodal type, and diffuse, poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma by the Rappaport classification, and stage IV by the Ann Arbor staging classification. After about 50 days of clinical manifestations, he was died mainly due to massive intestinal bleeding.
Classification ; Hemorrhage ; Humans ; Intestine, Small* ; Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell ; Lymph Nodes ; Lymphoma* ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pleura ; Skin ; Thigh ; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation ; Vasculitis

A 24-year old woman presented with hemorrhagic vesicles on her legs. She had taken sibutramine (Reductil(R), Abbott Labs., Seoul, South Korea) for 3 months and developed skin lesions the week before. A skin biopsy showed leukocytoclastic vasculitis with conspicuous eosinophilic infiltration of the tissue. These lesions showed improvement after discontinuation of sibutramine. However, 3 months later the skin lesions recurred on other sites on the lower extremities when the patient was rechallenged with the same drug for 2 weeks. Herein, we report the first case of necrotizing vasculitis induced by sibutramine.
Biopsy ; Cyclobutanes ; Eosinophils ; Female ; Humans ; Leg ; Lower Extremity ; Skin ; Vasculitis ; Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous

Most renal carcinomas are thought to originate from the epithelial cells of proximal convoluted tubules in the renal cortex. Collecting duct carcinoma is a recently recognized histological variety of renal cell carcinoma considered to arise from the epithelium of the collecting ducts. It is important to distinguish the collecting duct carcinoma from ordinary renal cell carcinoma, because which has an aggressive clinical course with early metastasis and death. But in patients, the natural course of the disease and its response to treatment have not been clearly established. Herein we report a case of collecting duct carcinoma of kidney in 38-year-old woman who had generalized edema and left flank dull pain. The preoperative diagnosis was left renal cell carcinoma on physical examination and radiologic finding, and left radical nephrectomy was done.
Adult ; Carcinoma, Renal Cell* ; Diagnosis ; Edema ; Epithelial Cells ; Epithelium ; Female ; Humans ; Kidney* ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Nephrectomy ; Physical Examination

Solid pseudopapillary tumor of the pancreas is a rare tumor that affects young females with low malignant potential and good prognosis with more than 90% survival at 5 years. Metastasis is very rare. We report the case of a 74-year-old female who had pancreatic solid-pseudopapillary tumor and synchronous hepatic metastasis.
Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Pancreas ; Pancreatic Neoplasms ; Prognosis

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Child ; Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous ; Humans

PURPOSE: Retrograde intrameullary nail is one of the treatment of periprosthetic supracondylar femoral fracture after total knee replacement (TKR), but all TKRs will not permit to insert a supracondylar nail. Therefore, we have investigated the compatibility of the TKRs with supracondylar nail. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Using trial femoral component of the 5 used TKRs in Korea and saw bone model, we checked their compatibility and measured the dimensions of the intercondylar notches in both cruciate retaining (CR) and posterior stabilized (PS) type. RESULTS: Although most CR prostheses had an intercondylar notch large enough to accept a supracondylar nail, in some case, this was not possible due to the notch being situated too far posteriorly. The position of the intercondylar notch is also important factor in the PS prostheses. CONCLUSION: The notch position, rather than the notch size, was the most important factor in determining nail compatibility with femoral stem.
Arthroplasty, Replacement, Knee ; Femoral Fractures ; Knee ; Korea ; Nails ; Periprosthetic Fractures ; Prostheses and Implants

Coronary artery anomalies are associated often with myocardial ischemia or sudden cardiac death. A 19-year-old woman who participated in an exertive game lost consciousness upon one such exertion. She was taken to a hospital where she died on the same day. An autopsy revealed that she had bifurcated coronary arteries, which arose from one coronary ostium in the left sinus of Valsalva. The right coronary artery arose from the left sinus and traveled between the aorta and the pulmonary trunk. The heart as well as the cardiac conduction system depended exclusively on the single coronary artery ostium for oxygenated blood supply, and the unbalanced blood distribution on her exertion probably led to sudden cardiac death. The case highlights the medicolegal importance of unexpected sudden cardiac death related to an anomalous origin of the coronary arteries.
Autopsy ; Coronary Vessel Anomalies/*complications/pathology ; Coronary Vessels/pathology ; Death, Sudden, Cardiac/*etiology/pathology ; Female ; Humans ; Physical Exertion ; Sinus of Valsalva/abnormalities ; Young Adult

Dermatitis neglecta (unwashed dermatosis) presents as pigmented hyperkeratotic plaques with adherent scales which clinically resembles psoriasis. This condition is the result of avoiding washing the affected areas, so the lesions are characteristically resolved with normal washing or with gentle wiping from an alcohol swab. We report a 29-year-old man who presented with an asymptomatic hyperkeratotic scaly plaque on umbilicus. A skin biopsy was done under the clinical impression of psoriasis. During skin biopsy, gentle swabbing with H2O2 and saline gauze was done. The patient revisited our clinic 10 days after the skin biopsy and the hyperkeratotic lesion had cleared. Histologic examination showed orthokeratotic hyperkeratosis and anastomosing rete ridges. There has been no previous report of dermatitis neglecta with histologic confirmation, and so this case could be the first report to provide the histologic characteristics of dermatitis neglecta. Because this condition might be overlooked and underdiagnosed, recognizing its existence and cause are important to avoid unnecessary biopsies and potentially aggressive therapeutic measures.
Adult ; Biopsy ; Dermatitis ; Humans ; Psoriasis ; Skin ; Umbilicus ; Weights and Measures

We report a case of cutaneous Mycobacterium (M.) abscessus infection in a 32-year-old woman who presented with a red infiltrated plaque on her left shin. No history of prior trauma was reported, but she had a history of habitual leg shaving. Skin biopsy specimen showed neutrophilic abscesses with poorly defined granulomas in the lower dermis and subcutaneous tissue, as well as some acid-fast bacilli. The microorganism was identified as M. abscessus by tissue culture and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) analysis. The patient was treated with clarithromycin and cefaclor for 4 months, and there was no evidence of recurrence at 6 month follow-up.
Abscess ; Adult ; Biopsy ; Cefaclor ; Clarithromycin ; Dermis ; Female ; Follow-Up Studies ; Granuloma ; Humans ; Leg ; Mycobacterium ; Neutrophils ; Recurrence ; Skin ; Subcutaneous Tissue