We experienced a case of sparganosis developed in the dorsum of penile shaft where, we think, is the very rare site of sparganosis reported in Korea. The patient, a 23 year-old Korean soldier, had slight tender thread-like linear subcutaneous mass on the dorsal aspect of penile shaft for 1 month prior to coming to us. The skin lesion was not palpated when the penis was erect. He had experience of intaking raw-snakes intermittently(5 times) since 2 years ago.
Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Military Personnel ; Penis ; Skin ; Sparganosis* ; Young Adult

PURPOSE: This study was done to verify the validity and reliability of a Psychiatric Nurses' Image Scale (PSYNIS) for Korean psychiatric and mental health nurses. METHODS: A methodological study design was used with an exploratory factor analysis, Pearson's correlation, and a fitness of the modified mode for validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficients and an alternative-form method for reliability were used. Psychiatric Nurses' Image Scale (PSYNIS) was tested with 345 psychiatric and mental health nurses, residing in G city, J city, and J province. Data were collected from Jun. 1 to Aug. 2, 2012. Responses were obtained from respondents through self reports method and each item had a possible score of 5. Collected data were analyzed using the SPSS 20.0 and LISREL 8.54 programs. RESULTS: The 28 items making up the instrument were classified into the following 4 factors: 'Professionalism', 'Activism', 'Coordination competence', and 'Personalism'. These factors explained 63.2% of the total variance. Fitness of the modified mode was good (chi2= 1052.30, RMSEA=.05, GFI=.90, AGFI=.86, NFI=.97, and CFI=.98). The reliability of the PSYNIS was .95 (Cronbach's alpha). CONCLUSION: Results of the present study suggest that the PSYNIS is useful for efficiently evaluation of the image of psychiatric nurses.
Data Collection ; Mental Health ; Methods ; Reproducibility of Results* ; Self Report

We experienced a case of unilateral vocal cord paralysis following tracheal extubation. The patient was a 60-year-old man undergoing subtotal gastrectomy. He had no laryngeal symptoms prior to operation and the trachea was intubated with a cuffed endotracheal tube. The surgical procedure lasted 6 hours and was uneventful. Three days later after operation, he began to complain of hoarseness and mild aspiration symptom. On endoscopic examination, left vocal cord paralysis was found. Fifteen weeks later the voice and left vocal cord function return to normal without specific management. In this case, we suggested that possible causes of unilateral vocal cord paralysis are compression of recurrent laryngeal nerve by overexpanded endotracheal cuff, laryngeal trauma during difficult intubation, stretching of the nerve as a result of traction on distant organ, decreased elasticity of trachea and surrounding tissues in the older age group and long operating time.
Airway Extubation* ; Elasticity ; Gastrectomy ; Hoarseness ; Humans ; Intubation ; Middle Aged ; Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve ; Trachea ; Traction ; Vocal Cord Paralysis* ; Vocal Cords ; Voice

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Humans ; Infant, Newborn* ; Precursor Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma*

We observed 2 cases of multiple trichoepithelioma, which occured in 25-year- old male and 20-year-old female. They visited our department for multiple skin rashes on the face of 8 years duration in male and 7 years' duration in female patient. Both of them have similar skin lesions characterized by multiplel waxy gshiny, skin colored, firm papules scattered on the nasolabial folds, both eyelids and forehead. Each one of them has a history of similar skin lesions in the family. Literatures are briefly reviewed for discussion of clinical and histopathologicl findings in this disease.
Exanthema ; Eyelids ; Female ; Forehead ; Humans ; Male ; Nasolabial Fold ; Skin ; Young Adult

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Histiocytoma, Benign Fibrous* ; Pulmonary Sclerosing Hemangioma*

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to develop the Nurse Presence Scale and to test the reliability and validity of the instrument. METHOD: The subjects verifying the scale's reliability and validity were adult patients being treated in three artificial kidney unit in Pusan and Taegu from August 1 to October 15, 2000. The data was analyzed by the SPSS/WIN 8.0 program. RESULT: A factor analysis and was conducted items that had a factor loading more than .40, and an eigen value more than 1.0 were seleclted. The factor analysis classified a total of seven factors statistically, but the seventh factor was excluded because communality was less than 4%. Therefore, there were six factors, and its communality was 62%. The explanation of domain and factors based on the conceptual framework and item content are as follows: The first factor was 'interaction' in emotional areas, the second domain was 'empathy' in cognitive areas, the third was 'attention' in emotional areas, the fourth was 'openness' in emotional areas, the fifth was 'sensitivity' in behavioral areas, and the sixth was 'physical assist' in behavioral areas. Cronbach's alpa coefficient to test reliability of the scale was .9766 for a total 49 items. CONCLUSION: The Scale for Nurse Presence developed in the study was identified as a tool with a high degree of reliability and validity. Therefore, this scale can be effectively utilized for the evaluation of nurse presence in clinical settings.
Adult ; Busan ; Daegu ; Humans ; Kidneys, Artificial ; Reproducibility of Results

Authors examined 40,000 minifilms(boys and girls each 10,000 in junior and senior high schools) which were taken for survey of pulmonary tuberculosis for junior and senior high school students and checked the prevalence of scoliosis. It was considered lateral curvature of spine more than 10 degrees as nonpostural scoliosis, which were analyzed prevalence rate, degree of curvature, distribution of size of curvature, pattern of curve and direction of curvature. Following results were obtained. 1. The overall prevalence rate was 1.56; male 1.38. and female 1.70%(Junior high school 1.06%, Senior high school 2.05%). 2. Scoliosis secondary due to bony abnormality was found in 5 cases. 3. The most common pattern of curvature was the thoracic curve. 4. In sihgle curve, right to left ratio was 1.7, especially senior high school girls had more right curve and junior high school boys had more left curve. 5. The prevalence of senior high school students was greater than that of junior high school students and the degree of curvature was also severe in senior high school students than in junior high school students.
Busan ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Prevalence ; Scoliosis ; Spine ; Tuberculosis, Pulmonary

A number of recent reports haTe described the usefulness of the epidural injection of narcotics for the relief of postpoerative pain. But the epidural or intrathecal uke of a narcotic agonist-antagonist, especially one with a high lipid solubility such as penta97cine, has not been reported. The present studr was undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of pentagocine as an agent for postoperative pain relief when injected epidurally. 80 patients involved in this study were divided raadomlr into four groups: 10 ml saline (group 1, n=20); 0.2 mg/kg pentazocine in 10m1 saline(group 2, n=20): 0.3mg/kg penta- zocine in 10 ml saline(group 3, R= 20) ; 0.4 mg/kg pentazocine in 10 ml(group 4, n=20). she results were as follows : 1) 20(100%) patients from the 0.2 mg pentazocine group, 18(90%) form the 0.3mg/kg pentazocine group and 20(100%) from the 0.4 mg/kg pentazocine group obtained analgesic effects following the epidural injection of pentagzocine. 2) The peak analgesic effect following epidural pentafocine ocurred at 15 min(mean val-ue). 3) The duration of analgesia following epidural pentazocine ranged from 6 to 13 hours. 4) No patient had respiratory depression, itching or vomiting but some patients had urinary retention and nausea. In conclusion, the present study suggests that pentazocine is a useful agent for postope-ratilve pain relief when injected epidurally.
Analgesia ; Hate ; Humans ; Injections, Epidural ; Narcotics ; Nausea ; Pain, Postoperative* ; Pentazocine* ; Pruritus ; Respiratory Insufficiency ; Solubility ; Urinary Retention ; Vomiting