• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.1565-1570
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• 2016

Background: Central neurocytomas are rare neuronal neoplasms with a favorable prognosis. They are typically located in the lateral ventricles of the brain and mostly histologically correspond to WHO grade II with a Mib 1 labelling index of <2%. Similar tumors located in the cerebral hemispheres and spinal cord, for example, are called "extraventricular neurocytomas". A few tumors histologically show atypia, mitoses, vascular proliferation and/or necrosis and a Mib 1 index >2 % and are designated as "atypical neurocytomas. Aim: The aim of our study was to describe the common as well as unusual morphologic features and the role of various immunohistochemical stains in the diagnosis of these rare tumors. Materials and Methods: We retrieved and reviewed 35 cases diagnosed between 2001 and 2015. Results: Sixty percent of patients were males, and the mean age was 26 years. 31 cases (88.6%) were intraventricular and 4(11.4%) were extraventricular. Histologically, 6 cases (17.1%) were compatible with "atypical neurocytomas". All cases showed the classic morphology comprising nests and sheets of uniform, round cells with uniform round to oval nuclei with finely speckled chromatin and perinuclear cytoplasmic clearing (halos). All cases also showed delicate, fibrillary, neuropil-like matrices. Other common histologic features included capillary-sized blood vessels in a branching pattern in 57.1%, foci of calcification in 34.3% and perivascular pseudorosettes in 20%. Rare findings included Homer-Wright or true rosettes in 8.6% and ganglioid cells in 2.9%. Synaptophysin was the most consistent and valuable marker, being positive in almost all cases. GFAP positivity in tumor cells was seen in 25.7% of cases. Follow up was available in 13 patients. Of these 9 had histologically typical and 4 had atypical tumors. Only 1 (with an atypical neurocytoma) died, probably due to complications of surgery within one month, while 12 (including 3 with atypical neurocytomas) remained alive. Recurrence developed in 1 of these 12 patients (histologically consistent with typical morphology) almost 9 years after surgery. Only 4 patients, including 2 with atypical tumors, received postoperative radiotherapy, all with surgery in 2010 or later. Overall, prognosis was excellent with prolonged, recurrence free survival and most patients, even without receiving radiation therapy, were alive and well for many years, even a decade or more after surgery, without developing any recurrence, indicating the benign nature of these neoplasms.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.381-386
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• 2002

배경 및 목적: 기관지 유암종은 전체 폐암의 약 2%를 차지하며 전형적 유암종과 이형성 유암종으로 나누어진다. 이형성 유암종은, 신경 내분비성 폐암의 범주에서 양끝을 차지하는, 낮은 악성도의 전형적 유암종과 높은 악성도의 소세포 폐암의 중간형으로 여겨지고 있다. 이형성 유암종의 수술 범위, 수술 후 전신적인 치료의 필요성에 관해서 상반되는 주장이 있다. 이에 본원에서 수술 받은 기관지 유암종 환자들을 대상으로 후향적 연구를 시행하였다. 대상 및 방법: 1990년부터 2000년까지 연세의료원에서 15명의 기관지 유암종 환자가 수술 치료를 받았다. 그중 전형적 유암종이 10명, 이형성 유암종이 5명이었다. 병리학적 진단은 WHO/IASLC(1999)의 기준에 따랐다. 결과: 수술은 전폐 절제술 3예, 폐엽절제술 11예, 구획 절제술 1예였다. 전형적 유암종의 경우 1명(10%)에서 국소 림프절 전이를 보였고, 이형성 유암종의 경우 3명(70%)에서 종격동 림프절 전이를 나타내었다. 수술 후 원격 전이는 전형적 유암종에서는 1명(10%)이었으나, 이형성 유암종에서는 4명(80%)에서 나타났다(p=0.017). 수술 후 5년 생존율은 전형적 유암종에서는 100%인 반면, 이형성 유암종에서는 20%로 통계학적으로 유의하게 전형적 유암종의 생존율이 높았다(p=0.0039). 결론: 이형성 유안종의 경우 진단 당시부터 종격동 림프절 전이가 많고 수술 후 생존율도 낮으므로, 비소세포성 폐암에 준하여 폐엽절제술 이상의 수술을 시행하고 종격동 림프절 전이가 있는 경우에는 수술 후 항암화학 요법이 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.289-294
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• 2010

경남 산청지방에서 쏘가리를 양식하던 어장에서 대량폐사가 발생하였다. 주요 증상으로 전신 피부에서 궤양이 진행되었고 조직학적으로는 주요 실질 장기에서 세균의 집락과 주변부위로 염증 및 괴사가 관찰되었다. 분리된 세균을 API 20E 및 API 20NE를 이용하여 생화학적 검사를 실시한 결과 Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida (typical A. salmonicida)로 진단할 수 있었다. 그러나 atypical A. salmonicida와 typical A. salmonicida로 구분할 수 있는 PCR 기법을 실시한 결과, 본 세균은 atypical A. salmonicida임을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구는 우리나라 쏘가리에서 A. salmonicida로 인한 발병의 최초 보고임과 동시에, A. salmonicida의 정확한 진단을 위해선 생화학적 검사가 아닌 PCR 검사를 이용한 진단을 실시해야 함을 제시하였다.

• 대한수의사회지
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.311-316
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• 1977

The studies on differentiation of pathological and atypical acid fast bacteria were reported by many authers. The tuberculin skin test that is widely utilized to diagnose tuberculosis of the dairy cattle was of smaller significance for the certification o

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제5권6호
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• pp.391-400
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• 2011

폐렴은 호흡기계의 감염이고 원인균, 병인, 침범부위, 그 밖의 여러 가지 상황에 따라서 다양하게 분류된다. 비정형 병원균주 페렴으로 의심되어 내원한 46세의 남자 환자에서 이학학적 소견이나 혈액검사, 객담도말검사, 소변검사, 기생충검사, 기관지내시경검사, 침생검 등에서 특이할만한 원인균을 찾지 못했으며, 청진이상, 고열, 고혈압, 객담, 호흡곤란 등의 증상 또한 보이지 않았다. 세균성 또는 비정형 병원균의 광범위치료 항생제 복용이나 기생충제제를 복용하였으나 재발되었으며, 자연치유 및 재발이 반복되며 호전되었다. 반흔을 남기며 호전되고 새로운 부위에 결절이 재발하기를 반복하면서 서서히 없어지는 기간은 평균 20일 정도였다. 재발 이후 흉부엑스선 촬영과 흉부 고해상 전산화단층촬영을 추적 검사한 결과 흉부엑스선 촬영에서는 특이한 징후를 관찰하지 못했으나 고해상 전산화단층촬영에서는 병변이 호전되어가고 새로운 부위에 재발되는 모습을 관찰할 수가 있었다. 양측 하부 폐에 재발성 경과를 취한 비정형병원균주 폐렴이 의심되는 환자의 경우, 흉부엑스선 촬영 소견은 횡격막이나 간(Liver), 척추 등에 의해 숨기 때문에 추적검사로서 도움을 주는 데는 한계가 있으며, 흉부 고해상 전산화단층촬영 검사를 하여 비교하는 것이 바람직하다. 저자는 재발성 경과를 취한 비정형 병원균주 폐렴1예에 대한 문헌고찰과 함께 보고한다.

• 한국산업보건학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.162-167
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• 2011

To identify the relationship between types of job classification (typical and atypical) and the levels of recognition of noise and the hearing threshold shift, a total of 457 workers in a cosmetic company were studied utilizing a questionnaire and the audiometric hearing test. The results were analyzed by factor analysis, t-test, and general linear model, as appropriate. The results showed that atypical workers had higher level of noise recognition but had lower levels of hearing ability, noise exposure, and the knowledge on hearing loss prevention, compared with those of typical workers. The high noise level group of typical workers showed higher threshold shift levels than that of atypical workers. Significant differences were found at 4 kHz for both ears and in right ear only for hearing threshold shift after adjusting age.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제61권1호
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• pp.120-126
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• 2018

Intraparenchymal meningiomas without dural attachment are extremely rare, especially when they occur in basal ganglia region in child. An 8-year-old boy was admitted at our hospital, complaining of recurrent headache and vomiting for 3 months. Neurological examination showed impaired vision and mild paresis of the left extremities. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated a lesion located in the right basal ganglia region extending to superasellar cistern with solid, multiple cystic and necrotic components. Computed tomography revealed calcification within the mass. Due to the anterior cerebral artery involvement, a subtotal resection was achieved and postoperative radiotherapy was recommended. Histopathological examination indicated that the lesion was an atypical meningioma. The postoperative rehabilitation was uneventful. Mildly impaired vision and motor weakness of left extremities improved significantly and the patient returned to normal life after surgery. To our knowledge, intraparenchymal atypical meningioma in basal ganglia extending to superasellar cistern was never reported. The significance in differential diagnosis of lesions in basal ganglia should be emphasized.

• 감성과학
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.125-136
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• 2018

Although atypical sensory processing is a core feature of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), there is considerable heterogeneity among ASD individuals in the modality and symptoms of atypical sensory processing. The present study examined visual processing of children with ASD, focusing on the complexity and orientation of visual information. Age- and -IQ-matched Korean children (14 ASD and 14 typically-developing (TD) children) received an orientation discrimination task involving static spatial gratings varied in complexity (simple versus complex) and orientation (horizontal versus vertical). The results revealed that ASD children had difficulty perceiving complex information regardless of orientation, whereas TD children had more difficulty with vertical gratings than horizontal gratings. Thus, group-level differences between ASD and TD children appeared greater when gratings were presented horizontally. Unlike ASD adult literature, however, ASD children did not show superior performance on simple gratings. Our findings on typical and atypical processing of ASD children have implications for both understanding the characteristics of ASD children and developing diagnostic tools for ASD.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제55권1호
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• pp.40-42
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• 2014

A correlation between radiation therapy and cavernoma has been suspected since 1994. Since then, only a few cases of radio-induced cavernomas have been reported in the literature (85 patients). Most of them were children, and the most frequent original tumour had been medulloblastoma. The authors report a case of two cystic cavernous angiomas after radiation therapy for atypical meningioma in adult woman. This is the first case of cavernous angioma after radiotherapy for low grade meningioma. A 39-year-old, Latin american woman was operated on for a frontal atypical meningioma with intradiploic component and adjuvant radiotherapy was delivered (6000 cGy local brain irradiation, fractionated over 6 weeks). Follow-up MR imaging showed no recurrences of the tumour and no other lesions. Ten years later, at the age of 49, she consulted for progressive drug-resistant headache. MR imaging revealed two new well defined areas of different signal intensity at the surface of each frontal pole. Both lesions were surgically removed; the histopathological diagnosis was cavernous angioma. This is the first case of cavernous angioma after radiation therapy for atypical meningioma : it confirms the development of these lesions after standard radiation therapy also in patients previously affected by non-malignant tumours.

• 대한골관절종양학회지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.99-103
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• 2012

악성 종양 환자에게서 졸레드론산과 같은 비스포스포네이트를 예방적으로 투여받은 경우 이와 관련한 비전형적 대퇴골 골절의 발생 위험성은 아직까지 명확하게 밝혀진 바가 없으며, 국내에 지금까지 보고된 예가 매우 드물다. 본 증례는 다발성 골수종 환자에서 고농도 졸레드론산을 지속적으로 투여받았던 환자에서 큰 외상의 병력 없이 우측 대퇴골 전자하 부위의 비전형적 골절이 발생한 경우로 폐쇄적 정복술 및 골수강 내 금속정 내고정술로 치료한 경험을 보고하고자 한다.