PURPOSE: To differentiate mature and immature ovarian teratomas, using CT findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The CT findings of ten mature ovarian teratomas (in one patient, bilateral) and ten which were immature were compared, using statistical analysis. images were evaluated for size, margins, architecture, contents (muralnodules, fat, calcification), septa, local invasion and distant metastasis. These findings were compared with pathologic findings. RESULTS: Of the ten mature tumors, nine were well defined and predominantly cystic ininternal architecture, and one was mixed. Mural nodules were found in six tumors, fat in all, distinct calcification in seven, and regular septa in three lesions. Of the ten immature tumors, eight had irregular margins, Seven were predominantly solid in internal architecture and irregularly enhanced, two were mixed, and one was mainly cystic. Fat was detected in five lesions, indistinct scattered calcification in six, irregular septa in three, and local invasion or distant metastasis in four patients. CONCLUSION: Compared with mature ovarianteratomas, those that are immature tend to show CT findings of marginal irregularity, solid mass with irregular enhancement, scattered indistinct calcifications, septal irregularity, local in vasion or distant metastasis. Our experience suggests that these findings may be helpful in differentiation of mature and immature ovarianteratomas.
Humans ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Teratoma*

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Animals* ; Fever* ; Hantaan virus*

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Hantaan virus* ; Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome* ; Prevalence*

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Asian Continental Ancestry Group* ; Humans

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of dementia is estimated to be as high as 11.3% among coummunity-dwelling persons over 65 years of age in Korea. The fear of dementia for both patients and families is growing because of the chronicity and progressiveness of the disease. Though the recognition, evaluation, and management of patients with dementia are important for the care of older pateint, unfortunately, MMSE takes 5 to 10 minutes to administer and is cumbersome to carry for all elderly patients in busy office. The Clock Drawing Test has been known as valid, easily administered and low cost screening procedure for the congnitive impaiment associated with dementia in general geriatric clinic population. In this study, we assessed the usefulness of this measure as a screening test for dementia, on the basis of the correlation between clock drawing and MMSE-K. METHODS: The subjects for this study consisted of 47 elderly who visited to two elderly clubs in Seoul from April 1996 through June 1996 or the outpatient department of Family medicine of the Ehwa Mok-dong hospital. They received the Mini-Mental Status Exam and the Clock Drawing test. Three observers evaluated them by ratings from 10(best) to 1(worst). Inter-rater reliability of scores from the Clock Drawing Test was assessed and Pearson correlation coefficients were used to examine the relationships between scores from the Clock Drawing Test and MMSE-K. RESULTS: Their mean age was 75.4 years with range of 65 to 91 years. There were 34 women and 13 men. Correlations between individual raters was highly significant(y=0.8939, 0.8552, and 0.8698, respectively ; P<0.01). Compared to scores on MMSE-K, rating from clock drawings by each of 3 raters revealed statistically significant correlations(y=0.7164, 0.7398, and 0.6884, respectively ; P<0.01). CONCLUSIONS: The clock drawings can be rated reliably by even untrained observers and performance on this task relates significantly to performance on MMSE-K of severity. We confirmed the usefulness of clock drawings as a simple, easily administered, low cost, and reliable general screening tool for dementia in a general geriatric clinic population.
Aged ; Dementia* ; Female ; Humans ; Korea ; Male ; Mass Screening* ; Outpatients ; Prevalence ; Seoul

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of maternal socioeconomic status, maternal oral health behaviors, and oral health behaviors of children, on the prevalence of early childhood caries in children aged 5 years. The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data collected between 2007 and 2014 were applied to this study, and the study sample included 824 children who received oral examinations and participated in the health behavior survey. The factor that affected the prevalence of early childhood caries were confirmed by maternal and child factors. The data were analyzed using multiple linear regression. The mothers' age, income level, and job status affected the prevalence of early childhood caries. There was a significant difference in the analysis considering the factors of motherhood and children in the prevalence of early childhood caries according to mother's age, education level, income level, and the child's oral examination. The prevalence of early childhood caries was higher in children who received oral examinations than in those who did not. When the mother's educational level was higher than college education, it was found that the index of child, i.e., there was a difference in the prevalence of early childhood caries according to the mother's educational and income levels. These results indicate that maternal socioeconomic characteristics are correlated with the oral health of children. Therefore, oral health education programs that include mothers for the prevention of early dental caries in children may improve the dental health of children. In addition, specific oral health policies are necessary to address the differences in the oral health between the income groups.
Child ; Dental Caries ; Diagnosis, Oral ; Education ; Health Behavior ; Humans ; Linear Models ; Mothers ; Nutrition Surveys ; Oral Health* ; Prevalence* ; Social Class

PURPOSE: To measure the mean size of the various portions of the corpus callosum in normal Korean children, using MR imaging. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Our subjects were 166 children (male : female=100 : 66) aged under 15 whose findings on MR imaging and neurologic examination were normal. Using midsagittal T1-weighted imaging, we measured the length of the brain and corpus callosum, the height of the latter, and the thickness of its genu, body, transitional zone and splenium. The measurements were statistically analysed according to age and sex. RESULTS: Brain length and the size of the various portions of the corpus callosum tended to increase relatively rapidly during the first three years of life, but the rate of growth tended to decrease according to age. The mean length of the brain and corpus callosum and the mean thickness of the splenium of the corpus callosum did not differ according to sex. The mean thickness of the genu, body and transitional zone of the corpus callosum was greater in males than in females. The ratio of the length of the corpus callosum to the anteroposterior diameter of the brain was significantly greater in females than in males (alpha = 0.05). CONCLUSION: Using MR imaging, we measured the mean sizes of the various portions of the corpus callosum in normal children ; these values may provide a useful basis for determing changes occurring in its structure.
Brain ; Child* ; Corpus Callosum* ; Female ; Humans ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Male ; Neurologic Examination

OBJECTIVES: This study was intended to compare psychiatric symptoms, neurocognitive function and quality of life between normal finding group and abnormal finding group on Brain-MRI. We investigated which variables were related to quality of life (QOL) in traumatic brain injury (TBI) patients. METHODS: Among thirty nine patients who had mild to moderate TBI, twenty two patients (57%) showed abnormal brain MRI findings correlated with their injury and 17 patients (43%) showed normal or nonspecific brain MRI findings. All patients completed Symptom check list-90-revised (SCL-90-R), Beck depression inventory (BDI), State-trait anxiety inventory (STAI), Korean version of the Smith Kline Beecham Quality of Life scale (KvSBQOL) and Marlowe-Crown Social Desirability Scale (MCSDS). Two psychiatrists assessed the patients using Hamilton rating scale for depression (HAMD), Hamilton anxiety scale (HAMA) and Functional assessment scale (FAS). In addition, Korean Wechsler Adult intelligence Scale (K-WAIS), Rey-Kim Memory Test (R-KMT) and Kims frontal-executive neuropsychological test (KF-ENT) were assessed. RESULTS: On FAS, the mean score was significantly lower in the abnormal finding on B-MRI group than the normal finding group (p=0.014). In the patients with abnormal MRI findings, the QOL scores significantly correlated with several subscales of SCL-90-R (obsessive-compulsive, depression, anxiety, global severity index and positive symptom total), FAS and memory quotient after controlling for MCSDS. However, in the patients with normal MRI findings, QOL scores significantly correlated with BDI and all subscales of SCL-90-R. When all pertinent variables were entered in stepwise regression analysis, depression (p<0.05) and interpersonal sensitivity (p<0.05) subscales of SCL-90-R explained 38.5% and 17.7% of the variance of the QOL score in patients with abnormal MRI findings. As for the patients with normal MRI findings, depression (p<0.05) subscale of SCL-90-R accounted for 54.2% of the variance of the QOL score. CONCLUSION: TBI patients who have persisting abnormal brain findings suffered from impaired daily functioning. Depression and interpersonal sensitivity explained 55% of the variance of the QOL together. In the patients with normal brain MRI findings, objective depression or anxiety did not correlate with QOL whereas subjective depressive symptom accounted for 54.2% of the variance of the QOL. This study suggests that subjective psychiatric symptoms including depression significantly correlated with the subjective QOL of TBI patients regardless of their brain MRI finding.
Adult ; Anxiety ; Brain ; Brain Injuries* ; Depression ; Humans ; Intelligence ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging ; Memory ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Psychiatry ; Quality of Life* ; Social Desirability

OBJECTIVES: The pharmacologic treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) with serotonergic antidepressant agents is well established in clinical psychiatry on the basis of serotonin hypothesis. Studies on predictive factors of treatment response to OCD are relatively scarce. The author compared the demographic factors, age of onset, length of illness, family history of mental illness, previous drug history for OCD, severity and type of symptoms between the drug responders and non-responders to find out the predicitive factors that may be related to treatment response. METHODS: The subjects were 31, both inpatients and outpatients who met the diagnostic criteria for OCD by DSM-IV and scored 20 or higher on the Yale-Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale(Y-BOCS) completed 12-week trial of sertraline. Y-BOCS, National Institute of Mental Health Obsessive-Compulsive Scale(NIMHOCS), Clinical Global Impression Scale(CGI) were scored to measure the changes of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and Hamilton Anxiety Scale(HAM-A) was measured at each visit. RESULTS: 1) The responders, defined as achieving at least a 40% decrease in the Y-BOCS total score and more than a 2 point decrease in CGI score, were 17(54.8%), and non-responders were 14(45.2%). Responders tended to show later onset(p<0.1), and shorter duration of illness(p<0.05), and less previous drug therapy for OCD(p<0.05) than non-responders. There were no significant differences in family history of mental illness between the two groups. 2) The baseline Y-BOCS compulsive score was significantly lower in responders(p<0.05), although there was no significant difference in the baseline severity of other measures. 3) The obsession of contamination and washing behaviors were more frequent, but compulsive counting was not shown, in responders(p<0.05). The pathological doubt tended to be more common in nonresponders(p<0.1). CONCLUSIONS: In summary, the patients with shorter duration of illness, less prior drug therapy for OCD, and less severe compulsive behaviors, and the obsession of contamination and washing behaviors are expected to be better outcome with sertraline, whereas compulsive counting are the predictor of poor response.
Age of Onset ; Anxiety ; Compulsive Behavior ; Demography ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ; Drug Therapy ; Humans ; Inpatients ; National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) ; Obsessive Behavior ; Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder* ; Outpatients ; Serotonin ; Sertraline*

OBJECTIVE: As the occupational and traffic accidents are increased, patients who are treated for complications of accidents have been increased in recent years. Accidents including industrial injury affect the physical state of the patients and make social, vocational, and economic prob-lems, so that they can affect the whole life of the patients. We performed this study to compare subjective evaluation of quality of life, depressive symptoms, and suicide ideation in both industrial injury patients and control subjects in order to know how industrial injury affect patients in psychiatric aspect. METHOD: The subjects were 169 inpatients who met the inclusion criteria of industrial injury patients and 166 healthy control subjects. All subjects were male and their age is from 19 to 60 years old. Demographic variables, quality of life, depressive symptom, suicide ideation were assessed in subjects. The types of injury and the duration of treatment were assessed in patients. The quality of life was measured using the Korean version of SmithKline Beecham 'Quality of Life' Scale(KvSBQOL), and the suicide ideation was measured using the Scale for Suicide Ideation(SSI), and the depressive symptom was measured using the Dpression scale of Patient Problem Questionaire(PPQ) which were devised from Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorder(PRIME-MD). RESULTS: 1) There were no significant differences in the general demographic variables between industrial injury patients and control subjects. 2) Scores of KvSBQOL were significantly lower, and SSI and Depression scale of PPQ were significantly higher in the industrial injury patients than control subjects(p<0.05). 3) In industrial injury patients, threre was a correlation between the age and the scores of KvSBQOL(p<0.01). The scores of KvSBQOL were lowest in older than 30's, highest in 10's-20's. No significant correlation was recognized between the age and the suicide ideation, the depressive symptoms. Threre was a correlation between the marital status and the scores of KvSBQOL(p<0.01). In unmarried, divorced or separated state, the scores of KvSBQOL were significantly lower than married state. There was a correlation between the duration of treatment and the scores of KvSBQOL, the suicide ideation. As the duration of treatment was longer, the scores of KvSBQOL were significantly lower(p<0.01), and the scores of SSI were significantly higher(p<0.01). 4) In industrial injury patients, there was a significant correlation between the type of injury and the scores of KvSBQOL, the suicide ideation, and the depressive symptoms. The scores of KvSBQOL were highest in the L-spine injury patients, lowest in the C-spine injury and multiple contusion patients(p<0.01). The scores of SSI were higher in the C-spine injury and multiple contusion patients, lowest in the L-spine injury patients(p<0.01). 5) In subjects, there was significant correlation between the scores of KvSBQOL, the scores of SSI, and the Depression scale of PPQ. CONCLUSION: Industrial injury patients feel bad about the quality of life and have more depression and suicide ideation. As a results, psychiatric intervention is needed for prevention of depression and suicide due to industrial injury.
Accidents, Traffic ; Contusions ; Depression* ; Divorce ; Humans ; Inpatients ; Male ; Marital Status ; Middle Aged ; Primary Health Care ; Quality of Life* ; Single Person ; Suicide*