• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권17호
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• pp.7141-7148
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• 2014

Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is an important malignancy throughout the world; early detection is an important criterion for achieving high cure rate. Out of the many reported markers for OSCC, this study validated the efficacy of tumor necrosis factor-${\alpha}$ (TNF-${\alpha}$) in differentially diagnosing premalignant oral lesions and OSCC. Also, the study aimed to correlate the levels of salivary and serum TNF-${\alpha}$ with clinicopathologic factors. Materials and Methods: A prospective experimental laboratory study was designed. Serum and salivary samples from 100 subjects in each group of healthy control, premalignant disease (PMD) and OSCC were collected for the study following appropriate exclusion and inclusion criteria. Serum and salivary level of TNF-${\alpha}$ was analysed by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. The data obtained were subjected to appropriate statistical analysis. Results: Increased level of both serum and salivary TNF-${\alpha}$ was observed in OSCC subjects compared to healthy control and PMD group. Receiver operator characteristic curve analysis and area under curve values showed high specificity and sensitivity for salivary TNF-${\alpha}$ in differentiating OSCC from PMD and healthy controls. There was significant increase in TNF-${\alpha}$ level in moderately and poorly differentiated lesion compared to well differentiated lesion and in stage IV of clinical stage. A positive correlation was observed only with histological grading of OSCC and TNF-${\alpha}$. Conclusions: Salivary TNF-${\alpha}$ is proved to be superior for detecting OSCC. Increase in TNF-${\alpha}$ with histological grading and clinical staging suggests a role in prognosis.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제55권3호
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• pp.214-224
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• 2022

Background: Studies of the prognostic role of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) are still limited. This study investigated the prognostic power of CTCs from the pulmonary vein (PV), peripheral blood (PB), and bone marrow (BM) for postoperative recurrence in patients who underwent curative resection for NSCLC. Methods: Forty patients who underwent curative resection for NSCLC were enrolled. Before resection, 10-mL samples were obtained of PB from the radial artery, blood from the PV of the lobe containing the tumor, and BM aspirates from the rib. A microfabricated filter was used for CTC enrichment, and immunofluorescence staining was used to identify CTCs. Results: The pathologic stage was stage I in 8 patients (20%), II in 15 (38%), III in 14 (35%), and IV in 3 (8%). The median number of PB-, PV-, and BM-CTCs was 4, 4, and 5, respectively. A time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that PB-CTCs had excellent predictive value for recurrence-free survival (RFS), with the highest area under the curve at each time point (first, second, and third quartiles of RFS). In a multivariate Cox proportional hazard regression model, PB-CTCs were an independent risk factor for recurrence (hazard ratio, 10.580; 95% confidence interval, 1.637-68.388; p<0.013). Conclusion: The presence of ≥4 PB-CTCs was an independent poor prognostic factor for RFS, and PV-CTCs and PB-CTCs had a positive linear correlation in patients with recurrence.

• 지질공학
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.337-348
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• 2005

포천 지역에 분포하는 쥬라기 화강암을 대상으로 미세균열 분포특성이 화강암의 역학적 성질에 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 3종의 방향성 시편을 대상으로 일축압축시험이 실시되었으며, 각 시편은R(riftplane), G(grain plane) 및 H(hardway plane) 축에 각각 직각이다. 다양한 탄성 상수 중, 3 방향에 따른 포아송비의 변화가 검토되었다 파괴 강도 비-포아송비의 관계도에서 포아송비의 범위는 H-시편에서 가장 높은 분포양상을 보이며 G-시편, R-시편의 순으로 감소한다. 분포곡선은 $I\simIII$ 단계에서는 거의 선형이며, IV-3 단계에서는 기울기의 급격한 증가를 보인다. 관계도에서 보는바와 같이 파괴강도비 $0.92\sim0.96$에서 변곡점이 형성된다. IV-3단계는 탄성 영역의 밖에 속한다. 4단계의 파괴단계에서의 거동은 응력-체적변형율 곡선에서 분석되었다 암석의 거동을 지배하는 응력증분-체적변형율 방정식에서 특징적인 재료상수인 a, n, Q, m 및 $\varepsilon_v^{mcf}$가 결정되었다. 이들 상수중에서 미세균열의 폐합영역( I 단계)에서 고유의 미세균열의 공극률$(a, 10^{-3})$ 그리고 압축지수(n)는 각각 $a^R(3.82)>a^G(3.38)>a^H(2.32)$ 그리고 $n^R(3.69)>n^G(2.79)>n^H(1.99)4의 순서로 나타난다. 특히 IV 단계의 미세균열의 임계체적변형율($\varepsilon_v^{mcf}$)은 3번 면에 수직인 H-시편에서 가장높게 나타난다. 이러한 결과에서 포아송비 및 재료상수와 같은 역학적 성질은 2 조의 미세균열과 밀접한 관계를 보이고있다. 강도 이방성과 미세균열의 방향성과의 상관성은 암석의 파괴 연구에 주요하게 적용될 수 있다.

• 정신신체의학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.153-163
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• 2001

본 연구는 KEAT-26의 변별 타당도를 알아보고 이 척도의 진단적(분류적) 효율성을 알아보기 위해서 이루어졌다. 참여자는 여성 식사장애 환자 108명, 체형관리센터에서 체형관리프로그램에 참여하고 있는 여성 179명, 체대운동여학생 120명, 일반여자대학생 227명 그리고 일반여자 183명(총 817명)이었다. 변량분석과 ROC(Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve) 곡선 분석을 통해서 이 척도의 타당화를 시도하였다. 그 결과 KEAT-26 총점수가 집단간에 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보였으며, 사후 검증에서 식사장애 환자집단이 다른 모든 집단보다 KEAT-26 점수가 유의하게 높았다. 그리고 각 집단에 따른 KEAT-26의 4 개 하위 요인점수의 차이 검증에서 모든 하위요인들에서 집단의 주 효과가 유의하였으나, 사후검증에서 요인 IV의 변별력이 떨어졌다. ROC 곡선 분석을 통하여 이 척도의 분류적인 효용성과 최대의 가질 때의 절단접수를 알아본 결과 식사장애 환자와 정상인 집단을 분류할 때 평균 약 80%이상의 효용성이 있으나 식사장애 고위험 집단을 변별할 때는 평균 약 69%의 효용성을 보였다. 특히, 최고의 효용성을 보일 때의 절단점수를 효면, 식사장애환자와 체형관리자를 분류할 때 절단점이 25점, 식사장애환자와 일반 여자를 분류할 때 분류점수는 19 점, 삭사장애환자 대 체대운동여학생의 분류 점수는 23점, 식사장애환자 대 일반여대생의 절단점은 21점이었다. 이민규 등(1998)이 제안한 T점수 65에 해당하는 KEAT-26의 총점 22점을 절단점수로 했을 때 이 척도의 민감도 54%, 특이도 84%, 효율성은 평균 80% 이었다. 본 연구 결과 KEAT-26온 한국 사람이 겪고 있는 식사문제에 관련된 연구에 필요한 신뢰롭고 타당한 도구임을 밝혀졌다. 또한 본 연구결과는 이 척도가 임상적인 이용 뿐 만 아니라 역학조사 동의 목적으로 식사문제가 있는 사람을 선별하는데도 유용한 도구임을 지지해 준다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권13호
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• pp.5349-5353
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• 2014

Statistical methods to analyze and predict the related risk factors of nosocomial infection in lung cancer patients are various, but the results are inconsistent. A total of 609 patients with lung cancer were enrolled to allow factor comparison using Student's t-test or the Mann-Whitney test or the Chi-square test. Variables that were significantly related to the presence of nosocomial infection were selected as candidates for input into the final ANN model. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was used to evaluate the performance of the artificial neural network (ANN) model and logistic regression (LR) model. The prevalence of nosocomial infection from lung cancer in this entire study population was 20.1% (165/609), nosocomial infections occurring in sputum specimens (85.5%), followed by blood (6.73%), urine (6.0%) and pleural effusions (1.82%). It was shown that long term hospitalization (${\geq}22days$, P= 0.000), poor clinical stage (IIIb and IV stage, P=0.002), older age (${\geq}61days$ old, P=0.023), and use the hormones were linked to nosocomial infection and the ANN model consisted of these four factors. The artificial neural network model with variables consisting of age, clinical stage, time of hospitalization, and use of hormones should be useful for predicting nosocomial infection in lung cancer cases.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.357-358
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• 2013

The non-linear characteristics of ON states are important for the application to the high density cross-point memory industry because the sneak current in neighbor cells occurred during reading, erasing, and writing process. Kw of above 20 in ON states, which is the writing current @ Vwrite/the current @ 1/2Vwrite, was required in cross-point ReRAM memory industry. The high current density non-linear IV curve of ZnSe selector was shown and the ALD HfO2 switching device has the linear properties of ON states and the compliance current of 100 uA. To evaluate the performance of the selection device, we connected itto HfO2 switching device in series. The bottom electrode of the selection device was connected to the top electrode of the RRAM. All of the bias was applied with respect to the top electrode of the selection device, whereas the bottom electrode of the RRAM was grounded. In the cross-point application, 1/2Vwrite and -1/2Vwrite were applied to the word-line and bit-line, respectively, which were connected to the selected cell, and a zero bias was applied to the unselected word-lines and bit-lines. The current @ 1/2Vwrite of the unselected cells was blocked by the selection device, thus eliminating the sneak path and obtaining a writing voltage margin. Using this method, the writing voltage margin was analyzed on the basis of the memory size.

• 정신신체의학
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.83-93
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• 2016

연구목적 역학연구 우울척도 개정판은 우울 증상을 평가하는 데에 유용성이 입증된 척도로 알려져 있으며 '정신장애의 진단 및 통계 편람 제4판(DSM-IV)'에 기술되어 있는 주요우울장애의 주요한 우울 증상들을 포괄하고 있다. 이 연구에서는 한국판 역학연구 우울척도 개정판을 제작하여 척도의 신뢰도, 타당도와 특성을 평가하고자 하였다. 방 법 DSM-IV의 진단기준에 근거한 MINI를 사용하여 주요우울증, 기분부전증, 달리 분류되지 않는 우울장애로 진단된 48명의 환자군과 48명의 정상 대조군이 연구에 참여하였다. 연구 참여자들은 한국판 역학연구 우울척도 개정판, 몽고메리-아스버그 우울증 평가척도, 우울증 선별척도, 단축형 우울증상 평가 척도, 상태-특성 불안척도를 포함한 척도검사를 시행하여 교차 검증하였다. Cronbach's alpha 계수, Pearson 상관계수, 주성분 분석, Receiver Operating Characteristic(ROC) 곡선, 최적 절단점 산출을 위한 통계분석을 시행하였다. 결 과 한국판 역학연구 우울척도의 Cronbach's alpha 계수는 0.98이었으며, 한국판 역학연구 우울척도 개정판의 총점은 본 연구에서 시행하였던 다른 우울 및 불안척도의 점수와 높은 상관 관계를 보였다. 주성분 분석에서는 두 요인이 전체 분산의 76.29%를 설명하였으며, ROC 곡선을 이용하였을 때, 한국판 역학연구 우울척도 개정판의 최적 절단점은 13점이었다. 결 론 본 연구는 한국판 역학연구 우울척도 개정판의 표준화를 위한 첫 번째 연구로, 한국판 역학연구 우울척도는 우울 증상을 평가하는데 있어 신뢰성 있고, 타당한 척도임을 밝혔다. 또한 이 척도가 진료 및 역학 연구에서 유용한 선별검사 도구로 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.13-17
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• 2020

Purpose: Accurate and appropriate prehospital field triage is essential for a trauma system. The Korean trauma system (established in 2014) uses the trauma field triage algorithm of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This study evaluated the suitability of the CDC field triage criteria for major trauma cases (injury severity score >15) in Korea. Methods: This retrospective cohort study evaluated trauma patients who presented at the authors' regional trauma center from January 1 to May 7, 2017. The undertriage and overtriage rates of each CDC field triage step were calculated. Receiver operating characteristic curves were constructed, and the area under the curve (AUC) was evaluated for each step. Results: Among the 1,009 enrolled patients, 168 (16.7%) had major trauma. The undertriage/overtriage rates of each step (steps I, II, III, and IV) of CDC field triage were 9.2%/47.4%, 6.3%/50.8%, 4.5%/59.4%, and 5.3%/78.9%, respectively. The AUC values of each CDC triage step were 0.722, 0.783, 0.791, and 0.615, respectively. The AUC values of the separate components of each step (physiologic criteria, anatomic criteria, mechanism-of-injury criteria, and special considerations) were 0.722, 0.648, 0.647, and 0.456, respectively. Conclusions: The CDC field triage system is acceptable, but not ideal, for Korean trauma care. If we follow the protocol, it would be preferable to omit step IV. The Korean Triage and Acuity Scale may be a good indicator for in-hospital triage. However, a new triage protocol that is simple to estimate on-scene while having good performance should be developed.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.1369-1373
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• 2014

Objectives: To study application of the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax), metabolic tumor volume (MTV) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) with $^{18}F$-FDG PET/CT for predicting prognosis of esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESC) patients. Methods: Eighty-six patients with ESC staged from I to IV were prospectively enrolled. Cisplatin-based chemoradiotherapy (CCRT) or palliative chemoradiotherapy were the main treatment methods and none received surgery. $^{18}F$-FDG PET/CT scans were performed before the treatment. SUVmax, MTV, and TLG were measured for the primary esophageal lesion and regional lymph nodes. Receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) were generated to calculate the P value of the predictive ability and the optimal threshold. Results: MTV and TLG proved to be good indexes in the prediction of outcome for the ESC patients. An MTV value of 15.6 ml and a TLG value of 183.5 were optimal threshold to predict the overall survival (OS). The areas under the curve (AUC) for MTV and TLG were 0.74 and 0.70, respectively. Kaplan-Meier analysis showed an MTV less than 15.6 ml and a TLG less than 183.5 to indicate good media survival time (p value <0.05). In the stage III-IV patient group, MTV could better predict the OS (P < 0.001), with a sensitivity and specificity of 0.80 and 0.67, respectively. Conclusions: Pre-treatment MTV and TLG are useful prognostic factors in nonsurgical ESC.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.167-174
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• 2017

China still has more than 30,000 patients of advanced schistosomiasis while new cases being reported consistently. D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product. As ascites being the dominating symptom in advanced schistosomiasis, the present study aimed to explore a prediction model of ascites with D-dimer and other clinical easy-achievable indicators. A case-control study nested in a prospective cohort was conducted in schistosomiasis-endemic area of southern China. A total of 291 patients of advanced schistosomiasis were first investigated in 2013 and further followed in 2014. Information on clinical history, physical examination, and abdominal ultrasonography, including the symptom of ascites was repeatedly collected. Result showed 44 patients having ascites. Most of the patients' ascites were confined in the kidney area with median area of $20mm^2$. The level of plasma D-dimer and pertinent liver function indicators were measured at the initial investigation in 2013. Compared with those without ascites, cases with ascites had significantly higher levels of D-dimer ($0.71{\pm}2.44{\mu}g/L$ vs $0.48{\pm}2.12{\mu}g/L$, P=0.005), as well ALB (44.5 vs 46.2, g/L) and Type IV collagen (50.04 vs $44.50{\mu}g/L$). Receiver operating characteristic curve analyses indicated a moderate predictive value of D-dimer by its own area under curve (AUC) of 0.64 (95% CI: 0.54-0.73) and the cutoff value as $0.81{\mu}g/L$. Dichotomized by the cutoff level, D-dimer along with other categorical variables generated a prediction model with AUC of 0.76 (95% CI: 0.68-0.89). Risks of patients with specific characteristics in the prediction model were summarized. Our study suggests that the plasma D-dimer level is a reliable predictor for incident ascites in advanced schistosomiasis japonica patients.