• Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.46-50
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• 2004

The snapping scapula is a relatively uncommon phenomenon occuring as a consequence of some anomalous conditioin existing between the thoracic wall and the undersurface of the scapula. It may present in several ways like crepitus, pain during scapular movement and limitation of scapular motion. The causes of snapping scapula are changes in the intervening soft tissues, the muscles, or the bursae between the scapula and the chest wall; and changes in the congruence between the anterior scapular surface and the underlying chest wall. The congenital elbow fusion or humeroradioulnar synostosis is an extremely rare inheritable disorder that previously described just a few reports. Recently we experienced a case of snapping scapular with congenital bilateral elbow fusion treated by arthroscopic scapulothoracic bursectomy and consequent open superomedial scapulectomy. We would describe the clinical feature of a snapping scapula and result of treatment with literature review.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.169-171
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• 2008

Giant lymph node hyperplasia (Castleman's disease) is a nonneoplastic lymphoproliferative disorder of unknown etiology that usually occurs in the chest. Its morphological recognition is based on a composition of various histological features. The mass is often asymptomatic, but it can cause nonspecific thoracic symptoms, such as regional pain. This disease can be found wherever lymph nodes are present, but two-thirds of these tumors are found in the chest, along the tracheobronchial tree in the mediastinum or lung hilus. However, we experienced an unusual case of Castleman's disease as a cause of back pain that was localized in the posterior mediastinum bordering the chest wall.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.657-661
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• 2009

점막하 식도 박리는 드문 질환으로 식도 천공 없이 점막하 출혈 및 혈종에 의해 점막하층과 근육층이 박리되는 상태를 의미하며, Mallory-Weiss, Boerhaave's syndrome과 함께 제3의 급성 식도 손상질환이다. 금식과 수액 요법 등의 보존적 치료만으로도 비교적 예후가 좋다. 하지만 출혈 소인이 있는 질환이나 정상적인 지혈에 영향을 미치는 약제(anticoagulants, anti-platelets, thrombolytic agents)를 복용중인 환자에서, 흉통 및 연하통 혹은 연하곤란 등을 호소하는 경우에 감별 진단으로 염두에 두어야 부적절한 치료를 피할 수 있다. 본 증례는 항혈소판 제재를 복용 중에 발생한 점막하 식도 박리를 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.486-489
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• 2013

Scapulothoracic bursitis, an uncommon lesion, has been reported to be a painful disorder of scapulothoracic articulation. The articulation may become inflamed secondary to trauma when overused because of sports or work that requires repetitive or constant movement of the scapula against the posterior chest wall. The bursitis usually appears as a growing mass at the scapulothoracic interface and is often confused with a soft tissue tumor. We report on a patient with scapulothoracic bursitis who underwent surgical excision.

• Journal of Medicine and Life Science
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.21-24
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• 2020

Intramural esophageal dissection is a rare disorder characterized by a separation of the mucosa and/or submucosa from deeper muscular layers of the esophagus, with or without perforation. Iatrogenic instrumentation such as endoscopy is one of the major causes of IED. We report a case of IED after endoscopy in a patient with hypopharyngeal cancer treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy, and suggest that a history of chemoradiotherapy can be a risk factor of IED on endoscopy. In this case, chest computed tomography scans show not only typical esophageal double lumen but also eccentric esophageal wall thickening and abnormally thin the other side esophageal wall, and this CT finding may also be important to diagnose IED.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.272-274
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• 2009

칼돌기 부위에 고통을 느끼는 칼돌기 통증은 흔하지 않은 근골격계 질환으로 전흉부와 상복부, 목, 양측 어깨, 등으로 통증이 방사될 수 있다. 진단에서 중요한 것은 이러한 통증이 칼돌기의 이상에 의해서 발생할 수 있다는 것을 임상적으로 알고 있어야 한다는 것이다. 2 증례의 칼돌기 통증 환자를 경험하였는데, 칼돌기 부위를 가볍게 누르면 전흉부와 상복부의 통증이 반복적으로 재생산될 때 진단하였다. 수년간 칼돌기 통증으로 고통 받아 왔던 첫번째 증례 환자에서는 칼돌기 제거수술을 하였고, 두번째 증례 환자에서는 국소마취제를 주사하여 치료하였다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제61권3호
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• pp.265-272
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• 2006

연구 배경: 척추후측만증, 흉곽성형술, 섬유흉 등과 같은 흉곽변형에 따른 질환들은 비슷한 환기장애의 형태로서 결과적으로 만성호흡부전에 이를 수 있으며, 경과 중 흔히 적인 급성호흡부전이 합병하게 되고 사망의 위험에 놓이게 된다. 저자들은 이러한 환자들에서 급성호흡부전의 빈도와 결과, 생리적 상태, 그리고 장기적 예후 등의 특성을 알아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 경북대학교병원에서 급성호흡부전으로 첫 환기보조를 받게 된 29명의 흉벽질환자를 대상으로 초기 사망률, 이후의 급성호흡부전의 재발빈도, 동맥혈가스검사 및 폐기능검사, 재택 산소 치료의 효과, 그리고 장기 생존율을 조사하였다. 결 과: 1) 첫 급성호흡부전시의 사망률은 24.1%였으며, 생존자 중 72.7%에서 급성호흡부전이 1회 이상 재발하였고 전체적인 급성호흡부전에 대한 이탈 성공률은 73.2%였다. 2) 첫 급성호흡부전으로부터 회복된 22명은 평균 FVC 및 TLC가 각각 추정 정상치의 37.2, 62.4%인 제한성 환기장애와 평균 $PaCO_{2}$가 57mmHg인 만성적 과탄산혈증 호흡부전소견을 보였으며, $PaCO_{2}$와 VC 및 FVC 사이에 유의한 연관성을 보였다. 3) 보존적 약물치료만 받은 군과 상대적으로 유의한 저산소혈증에 의해 보존적 치료와 재택 산소치료를 함께 받은 군의 비교 시에, 재 급성호흡부전 환자수와 생존율에서 두 군 간에 유의한 차이가 없었다. 4) 첫 급성호흡부전으로부터 생존한 22명의 경과에서 재택 NIV를 받은 2명을 제외한 20명의 1년, 3년, 5년 생존율은 각각 75%, 66%, 57%였으며, 사망자의 88%가 심폐부전으로 사망하였다. 결 론: 흉벽질환자의 급성호흡부전에 대해 적극적으로 환기보조치료가 시도될 만하나, 이들 만성적 호흡부전자에서 재택 산소 치료만으로는 그 효과가 미약하여 삶의 질 및 생존율의 향상을 위해서는 재택 NIV가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• 수면정신생리
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.10-16
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• 2004

Sleep is associated with definite changes in respiratory function in normal human beings. During sleep, there is loss of voluntary control of breathing and a decrease in the usual ventilatory response to both low oxygen and high carbon dioxide levels. Especially, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is a distinct neurophysiological state associated with significant changes in breathing pattern and ventilatory control as compared with both wakefulness and non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. REM sleep is characterized by erratic, shallow breathing with irregularities both in amplitude and frequency owing to marked reduction in intercostal and upper airway muscle activity. These blunted ventilatory responses during sleep are clinically important. They permit marked hypoxemia that occurs during REM sleep in patients with lung or chest wall disease. In addition, sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is more frequent and longer and hypoventilation is more pronounced during REM sleep. Although apneic episodes are most frequent and severe during REM sleep, most adults spend less than 20 to 25% of total sleep time in REM sleep. It is, therefore, possible for patients to have frequent apneas and hypopneas during REM sleep and still have a normal apnea-hypopnea index if the event-rich REM periods are diluted by event-poor periods of NREM sleep. In this review, we address respiratory physiology according to sleep stage, and the clinical implications of SDB and hypoventilation aggravated during REM sleep.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.962-967
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• 1990

The anomalous pulmonary venous return of the entire left lung was an extremely rare congenital anomaly. The reported surgical experience with correction of this disorder was limited. The 3-year-old female patient underwent an operation upon the unilateral total anomalous pulmonary venous return from the left lung, in which the left superior pulmonary vein drained into innominate vein and the left inferior pulmonary vein into the coronary sinus, in Yeungnam University Hospital. The symptoms were nonspecific except frequent upper respiratory infection. Cyanosis was not seen. On auscultatory findings, a grade 2/6 systolic ejection murmur was audible over left second intercostal space of left sternal border and second heart sound had an increased pulmonary component which was widely splitted. The electrocardiogram demonstrated a right ventricular hypertrophy and right axis deviation and chest X-ray showed slightly increased pulmonary vascularity and bulged pulmonary conus. The echocardiogram demonstrated increased right atrial, ventricular, and pulmonary arterial dimension, and also secundum atrial septal defect and enlarged coronary sinus. The cardiac catheterization confirmed the left-to-right with a Qp/Qs of 2.0: 1 and oxygen step-up was seen in pulmonary artery, right ventricle, right atrium, and left innominate vein, and the catheter was not been introduced into the left pulmonary vein. A median sternotomy incision was done. Left superior pulmonary vein was drained to the innominate vein through anomalous vertical vein and the left inferior pulmonary vein drained to right atrium through the coronary sinus. The diversion of the left inferior pulmonary vein to posterior wall of left atrium was done after division in the proximity of coronary sinus. The anomalous vertical vein was diverted to base of left atrial auricle and then a atrial septal defect was sutured directly. The postoperative course was uneventful and she was discharged on the eleventh postoperative day. In the postoperative follow-up-2 months, she has been well without specific problems.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제52권12호
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• pp.1388-1391
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• 2009

Poland 증후군은 일측 대흉근의 부재나 저형성과 다양한 동측 손기형을 특징으로 한다. Mobius 증후군은 완전 혹은 불완전의 안면마비를 특징으로 하는 선천적 신경학적 이상을 말한다. 이들의 병인은 명확히 밝혀지지 않았지만, 이환된 측의 혈류가 감소됨으로서 발생된다 여겨지고 있다. 2.670 g 남자아이가 38주 3일에 왼쪽 안면마비와 우심증이 동반된 왼쪽 흉벽 결손에 2번째, 3번째 손가락 합지증을 가지고 태어났다. Poland-Mobius 증후군은 드물며, 세계적으로 우심증과 관련된 증례는 단지 2례 밖에 없었다. 이에 우리는 우심증이 동반된 Poland-Mobius 증후군의 국내 첫 증례를 보고하는 바이다.