• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.53-60
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• 1968

Achalasia is a functional disorder of a short segment of the lower esophagus showing obstruction of the esophagogastric junction. Dysphagia. regurgitation and weight loss are outstanding features,however, complicated pulmonary troubles aspiration pneumonitis, bronchiectasis, lung abscess etc. --are sometimes more apparent than the disease entity in children though achalasia is rarely encountered in children. During the period of January, 1961, to May, 1968, the authors experienced 9 cases of achalasia of the esophagus in Chest Surgery Department,N.M.C. 1. Seven of nine were male and four were under 5 years of age. 2. So-called symptoms triad noted in almost every case, and 3 of 4 children showed recurrent attacks of pneumonitis. 3. Chest film showed widened superior mediastinum by dilated esophagus in 6 cases, and pulmonary infiltrations in 3 cases of children. 4. Preoperative diagnosis were achalasia,esophageal stricture by rodent-cidal ingestion and suggestive esophageal cancer in 7 cases,one case and remaining one case. respectively. 5. Modified Heller procedure was performed in all cases with definite diagnosis of achalasia at operation table in misdiagnosed 2 cases. 6. Immediate postoperative complications were 2 cases of wound infection and one case of atelectasis and no operative mortality encountered. 7. Seven of nine showed excellent result of operation, and good in one case. Remaining one case failed relieving obstruction and underwent interposition of ileocolonic segment with excellent result.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권9호
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• pp.851-854
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• 1999

식도에서 발생한 혈관종은 전 세계적으로 30례 정도가 보고된 매우 드문 질환이다. 일반적으로 남자에 서 흔하고 증상이 없는 경우가 대부분이나, 연하 곤란 및 출혈 등이 있을 수 있다. 진단은 바륨 식도 조 영술과 내시경을 통해 이루어지고, 치료 방법은 내시경적 절제술과 개흉을 통한 절제술이 있다. 환자는 연하 곤란과 소화 불량을 주소로 내원한 46세 남자로 식도 조영술, 내시경 검사상 식도 중하부의 점막하 종양이 추정되어 수술을 시행하였다. 개흉수술을 통해 절제하였고 조직 검사상 해면상 혈관종으로 확진 되었다. 수술후 합병증이 없이 퇴원하였으며 수술후 관찰 추적중인데, 재발없이 양호한 상태를 보이고 있다.

• 사상체질의학회지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2012

Objectives : We aimed to analyze the meanings of the energy and fluid metabolism in the Discourse on Viscera and Bowels of Donguisusebowon, and to find the clues for the explanation of the pathology and symptomatology of Taeeumin. Methods : The Discourse on Viscera and Bowels of Donguisusebowon was reviewed and examined for relevant information on the energy and fluid metabolism from the structural and the functional point of view respectively. And, based on the derived meanings of the energy and fluid metabolism, the pathology and symptomatology of Taeeumin were analyzed. Results and Conclusions : 1. The meanings of the energy and fluid metabolism can be explained by the different attributes of the energy and fluid produced from the esophagus and the small intestine, and the different function of exhaling-dispersing and inhaling-concentrating in the different tract of circulation such as Lung affiliation (esophagus, skin, ear and lung) and Liver affiliation (small intestine, flesh, nose and liver). 2. The Exterior disease of Taeeumin starts with the weakness of exhaling-dispersing function at the skin, and leads to the dysfunction of the esophagus and the lung sequently. The dysfunction of the lung aggravates that of the skin and the esophagus. 3. The Interior disease of Taeeumin begins with excess of the inhaling-concentrating functions at the flesh and the small intestine, and leads to the dysfunction of the lung, which induces the dysfunction of exhaling-concentration at the skin and esophagus. And, this disparities between exhaling-dispersing and inhaling-concentrating functions exasperate the problem at the flesh and the small intestine.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.392-395
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• 2009

선양 낭포성 암종은 주로 주타액선, 호흡기 등에 잘 발생하는 종양으로 식도에서는 매우 드물게 발생한다. 식도의 선양 낭포성 암종은 타액선에 발생하는 것과는 임상병리학적으로 차이가 있으며, 악성도가 높고 예후가 불량하다. 저자들은 65세 남자 환자에서 발생한 식도의 선양 낭포성 암종을 치험하였기에 이에 대한 수술 및 임상병리적 소견을 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하고자 한다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제40권7호
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• pp.520-522
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• 2007

기관지성 낭종은 일반적으로 폐실질 내 혹은 종격동 내에 발생하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 종격동 내에 위치하는 경우 기관지와 식도 부근에 위치하나 식도에 함몰되어 있는 경우는 매우 드물다. 수술 전에 기관지성 낭종과 식도 낭종을 구분하는 것은 매우 어려워 식도 양성 종양으로 의심하고 수술을 시행하게 된다. 저자들은 우연히 발견된 식도 내 종양이 수술 절제를 통해 기관지성 낭종으로 밝혀져 보고하는 바이다.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.234-238
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• 2013

Purpose: Esophageal tolerance is needed to guide the safe administration of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). We evaluated comprehensive dose-volume parameters of acute esophageal toxicity in patients with spinal metastasis treated with SRS. Materials and Methods: From May 2008 to May 2011, 30 cases in 27 patients with spinal metastasis received single fraction SRS to targets neighboring esophagus. Endpoints evaluated include length (mm), volume (mL), maximal dose (Gy), and series of dose-volume thresholds from the dose-volume histogram (volume of the organ treated beyond a threshold dose). Results: The median time from the start of irradiation to development of esophageal toxicity was 2 weeks (range, 1 to 12 weeks). Six events of grade 1 esophageal toxicity occurred. No grade 2 or higher events were observed. $V_{15}$ of external surface of esophagus was found to predict acute esophageal toxicity revealed by multivariate analysis (odds radio = 1.272, p = 0.047). Conclusion: In patients with spinal metastasis who received SRS for palliation of symptoms, the threshold dose-volume parameter associated with acute esophageal toxicity was found to be $V_{15}$ of external surface of esophagus. Restrict $V_{15}$ to external surface of esophagus as low as possible might be safe and feasible in radiosurgery.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.404-407
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• 1999

식도의 혈종은 자발적이거나 손상후 이차적인 원인으로 발생하거나 드문 질환이다. 병인론은 논쟁에 여지가 있으나 환자의 응고 능력이나 혈종의 위치, 그리고 선행된 구토의 병력 등에 좌\ulcorner 된다. 정상적인 응고력이 있는 환자의 경우 구토와 Mallory-Weiss lesion 등이 식도 혈종을 형성하는데 일차적인 역할을 하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 이에 반해 비 정상적인 응고력을 가진 환자는 구토와 연관이 없고 60% 환자에서 하부 식도가 보존되고 여러부위에 혈종이 있는 경우가 많다. 증례에서는 환자가 구토를 자주하고 구역질을 자주하는 과거력을 가지고 있었고 B형 간염으로 인한 약간의 응고 장애가 있으면서 식도 근육에 분포하는 혈관의 손상으로 인한 식도근육내 혈종이 형성된 것으로 여겨지고 그로 인해 식도의 폐쇄증을 일으켜 연하곤란의 증상이 나타났다고 보여지고 수술소견으로는 하부 식도에 점막 층, 점막하층부위의 손상이 없이 안쪽의 환상(circular)근육과 바깥쪽의 경선(longitudinal)근육사이에 육아성조직이 포함된 혈종이 고여 있었다. 연세대학교 영동세브란스병원 흉부외과에서는 대증적인 요법에도 불구하고 증상의 호전없이 악화되는 식도 점막과 점막하층에 열상이 없이 발생한 1례의 원발성 식도근육내 혈종를 수술하여 성공적으로 시행하여 좋은 결과를 얻었기에 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.744-749
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• 1986

Even in the hands of the expert endoscopists, an occasional instrumental perforation of the esophagus occurs. But instrumental perforation of the esophagus should not be difficult to diagnose if the possibility is borne in mind. Occasionally patient with esophageal perforations show little reaction at first, but usually they develop systemic manifestation if surgical management is delayed. Early surgical drainage of esophageal perforation is very important & effective therapeutic method. The delayed surgical treatment of esophageal perforation would have increased the morbidity & mortality by allowing mediastinitis & empyema thoracis. We have experienced 6 cases of delayed surgical management of instrumental perforation of esophagus from May 1974 to April 1986 in the department of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery, Yonsei University, college of the medicine. The ages ranged from 4 years to 57 years. The underlying esophageal diseases consisted of esophageal stricture in 3 cases, foreign bodies in the esophagus in 2 cases and esophageal ca. in one case. Most clinical manifestations on admission were high fever, chest discomfort, chest pain, dysphagia and subcutaneous emphysema. Most complications due to esophageal rupture were acute mediastinitis with or without empyema thoracis. Failure to diagnose promptly and failure to promptly institute adequate treatment undoubtedly were largely responsible for this patients death. All 6 patients had been taken delayed surgical drainage more than 24 hours following esophageal perforation. One patient had been in the open drainage state for long time and the another patient has been in the tracheostomy with postintubation vocal cord ulceration. The third patient died due to respiratory failure and sepsis due to fulminant mediastinitis & empyema thoracis. Even if the patients with esophageal perforation have been taken delayed surgical management, the patients should be survived with aggressive & effective surgical drainage with intensive post-operative care.

• 한국응용약물학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국응용약물학회 1997년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.41-46
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• 1997

Lower esophageal sphincter (LES) is characterized by the ability to maintain a sustained pressure, and to relax allowing the passage of a bolus, whereas the esophagus is normally relaxed and contracts only briefly when required to produce peristalsis (fig. 1). The neuromuscular mechanisms that participate in the physiological regulation of these functions are not well understood, but it is thought that LES tone is spontaneous and regulated mostly through myogenic mechanisms, whereas LES relaxation and esophageal contraction are induced by neural mechanisms. Gastroesophageal reflux represents the effortless movement of gastric contents from stomach to esophagus. Because this phenomenon occurs in virtually everyone multiple times every day and in the majority of people without clinical consequences, the reflux per se is not disease. However in some cases, it can be pathologic, producing symptoms and signs called gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), which mechanism is not well known. It may result in heart burn, chronic esophagitis, aspiration pneumonia, esophageal strictures, and Barrett's esophagus.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.107-114
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• 1990

During a ten-year period from August, 1978 to September, 1989 45 patients with benign esophageal stricture were surgically evaluated. The results are as follows; l. Out of 45 patients, there were 26 males and 19 females ranging from 2 to 70 years of age with a mean of 31.9 years. 2. The most common cause of benign esophageal stricture was corrosive burn due to caustic agents[40 cases, 88.9 %]. Corrosive agents were 15 cases of lye, 22 cases of acid and 3 cases of other agents. Other causes were two cases of esophageal web and each one case of previous surgical result, inflammation and idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis respectively. 3. The most frequent stricture site was whole esophagus as 21 cases[46.7 %] and the next was lower a third thoracic esophagus[10 cases, 25.0%]. 4. In 33 of total 45 cases, colon interposition with right colon was performed without resection of the strictured esophagus except one case which was complicated esophageal cancer. Other procedures were 4 cases esophagogastrostomy with segmental resection, 2 cases of plastic repair and so on. 5. Major postoperative complications which were needed for secondary operation were 5 cases[11.1 %]. [2 cases of stenosis, ileus and ulcer bleeding respectively] Overall mortality rate was 4.4 %.