Sixty five cases of the knee joint injuries diagnosed and treated at the orthopedic department of Han-Il hospital during the period from January 1966 to December 1970, were analysed clinically. The results obtained were as follow: (A) Age, sex, and side of injury were reviewed. 1) Age ranged from five to fifty-eight years, with thirty-six of the patients falling in the twenty one to forty years old age group. The greatest incidence (twenty) was in the twenty one and thirty year old. 2) Fifty four patients were male and eleven were female. This reflected the degree of exposure to injury in the sexes. 3) No significance was attached to the fact that thirty patients injured right knees, twenty five injured left knees and ten injured both knees. The Most common site was medial collateral ligament. (40%) (B) In order to observe rentgenographic changes of the traumatic knee joint, artificial stress(varus and valgus) was applied during taking photograph. When the medial site injury exist, medial intercondylar length widen between both condyle of tibia and femur, angle enlarged in degree and the point that made by opposite intercondylar lines of the tibia and femur, deviated to lateral interarticuIar space from spine of tibia. When the lateral site injury exist, above mentioned process is not always apply to application. (C) The results of surgical and conservative treatment have been reviewed; 38 cases conservative and 37 cases operative. The results were successful in both. groups. Surgery is not always the treatment of choice for collateral ligament injuries.
Accidental Falls ; Collateral Ligaments ; Diagnosis ; Female ; Femur ; Humans ; Incidence ; Knee Joint ; Knee ; Male ; Orthopedics ; Spine ; Tibia

Aquagenic urticaria is a rare form of physical urticaria in which wheal is produced by contact with water. A 21-year-old woman was referred to our department because of itching wheal after contact with water for 1 month. Match-head-sized wheal surrounded by bean sized erythema was provoked with water on her face regardless of its tempera ture, osmolarity and quality. Passive transfer test was negative. Result of pro vocation test with normal saline and NaHCO solution, which was reported to be therapeutically effective, was similar to those with pure water.
Erythema ; Female ; Humans ; Intradermal Tests ; Occupations ; Osmolar Concentration ; Pruritus ; Urticaria* ; Water ; Young Adult

No abstract available.
Humans ; Trigger Points*

15 cases of acute dislocation of the elbow were treated at Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Capital Armed Forces General Hospital, Seoul, Korea during the period of March, 1985. To June, 1986 were analysed. The length of follow-up period ranged from 6 months to 16 months, with a mean of 9 months. The results were as follows; 1. 7 cases had been surgically treated, and they revealed rupture of the medial collateral ligament in all. So, we think that the medial collateral ligament of the elbow plays an important role in elbow stability. 2. The average immobilization period for the patient with non-operative treatm ent was 2 weeks. And normal ran ge of motion was obtained at 8 weeks. So, there was no. significant difference from other reports in the duration of recovery. 3. The period of recovery in operated patients was 14 weeks, and it was 6 weeks longer than non-operatively treated patients. 4. There was no chronic elbow instability in all 15 patients, but 3 cases with non-operative treatment complained of medial elbow pain on vigorous exercise.
Arm ; Collateral Ligaments ; Dislocations ; Elbow Joint ; Elbow ; Follow-Up Studies ; Hospitals, General ; Humans ; Immobilization ; Korea ; Rupture ; Seoul

Kimura's disease is a chronic inflammatory condition of unknown cause. It usually appears as a painless nodule in the head and neck region often associated with regional lymphadenopathy, but there have rarely been reports of penile involvement or clinical presentation as an ulcerative plaque. We present a case of Kimura's disease occurring on the penile shaft as an ulcerative plaque in a 44-year-old man. A vesicular eruption had occurred on his penile shaft followed by an ulcerative plaque for 2 months. He had suffered from recurrent regional lymphadenopathy for 15 years and he had also exhibited intermittent eosinophilia. Histopathologic findings revealed diffuse eosinophilic infiltration in the dermis of the skin and eosmophilic abscesses in the lymphoid follicles of the mguinal lymph node. After short-term systemic steroid therapy and local injection of triamcinolone acetonide, the ulcerative plaque was healed.
Abscess ; Adult ; Dermis ; Eosinophilia ; Eosinophils ; Head ; Humans ; Lymph Nodes ; Lymphatic Diseases ; Neck ; Skin ; Triamcinolone Acetonide ; Ulcer

No abstract available.

BACKGROUNDS: Korean Activities of Daily Living(K-ADL) scale was developed to measure the elderly function. The aim of the present study was to establish the validity and reliability of Korean Activities of Daily Living(K-ADL) scale. METHODS: Clinical validity and convergent validity was tested. Reliability was tested by internal consistency(Cronbach's alpha), two weeks test-retest method, and interrator correlation. RESULTS: Cronbach's alpha was 0.937. 2 weeks test-retest correlations in all 7 items were higher than 7.0. Interrator agreements were high in all 7 items(h=0.86~1.0). Nonnal control group had lower scores than patients group in all 7 items(p=0.000). Correlation coefficients between K-ADL score and braindisability grade was between -0.465(eating) and -0.696(bathing)(p=0.000). CONCLUSIONS: Korean Activities of Daily Living(K-ADL) scale is a valid and reliable instrument. In the future, the studies showing an association between K-ADL and mortality, prognosis are needed.
Activities of Daily Living ; Aged ; Humans ; Korea ; Mortality ; Prognosis ; Reproducibility of Results*

No abstract available.
Mesenteric Artery, Superior*

Lymphomatoid papulosis (LyP), first described by Macaulay in 1968, is a paradoxical skin disease characterized by a generally clinical benign course, in contrast to malignant histological features. LyP is rarely seen in children. We herein report a case of LyP in a 10-year-old boy who had a 4-week history of multiple, scattered erythematous papules, crusted papules or ulcerated papules on the trunk, arms and thighs. Histopathologically, there was a superficial and midderma1 perivascular and interstitia1 infiltrate composed primarily of lymphocytes, which were admixed with large, atypical, mononuclear cells with pleomorphic nucleus. These atypical cells expressed CD30 (Ki-1) antigen. This is the first reported case in Korea of LyP present in a child.
Arm ; Child* ; Humans ; Korea ; Lymphocytes ; Lymphomatoid Papulosis* ; Male* ; Skin Diseases ; Thigh ; Ulcer

To evaluate the meaning of anti-HCV detection in patients treated with IVIG, serum levels of aspartate aminotranstferase(AST), alanine aminotransterase(ALT), HCV Ab titer were measured after treatment with IVIG in 36 patients diagnised of Kawasaki disease or neonatal sepsis. Also polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the detection of HCV was done in 8 patients with persistent HCV Ab positivity at 3 months after IVIG treatment. The results were as follows 1) HCV Ab was positive in all 36 patients at 1 week after IVIG treatment, but in only 8 cases it was positive at 3 months after IVIG treatment. 2) AST, ALT were elevated in 9 cases at 1 week after IVIG treatment, but they were normalized in all cases at 3 months after IVIG treatment. 3) PCR for the detection of HCV was done in 8 patients with persistent HCV Ab positivity at 3 months after IVIG treatment, but HCV was not isolated in any cases. These results suggested that detection of anti-HCV was merely transitory phenominon of HCV Ab transmission, did not show any evidence of HCV infection due to HCV transmission.
Alanine ; Aspartic Acid ; Hepacivirus* ; Hepatitis C* ; Hepatitis* ; Humans ; Immunoglobulins* ; Immunoglobulins, Intravenous ; Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome ; Polymerase Chain Reaction ; Sepsis