• Journal of Digestive Cancer Research
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.41-44
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• 2023

Oral complications, such as mucositis, infection, or xerostomia, are common in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy. These complications can cause pain, leading to increased consumption of analgesics, poor oral intake, malnutrition, and even a need for parenteral nutrition. Moreover, they can sometimes interrupt the treatment plan. This review focuses on the proper management and prevention of oral complications that are common in patients with cancer receiving chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

• 종양간호연구
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.119-128
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• 2010

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of continuous nutritional education and oral mucositis management on the nutritive status of patients who received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Methods: After randomly allotting 72 patients who received HSCT to either an experimental group or a control group, intensive and continuous care for preventing malnutrition was conducted in the experimental group while usual routine care was conducted in the control group. The changes of the body scale, blood chemistry profile, oral intake calories, nausea and vomitus, and oral stomatitis scores were measured at three points during their hospitalization using a oral assessment guide and nutrition analysis program: admission, HSCT, and discharge day. The differences between the scores of two groups were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of covariance. Results: The number of total lymphocytes was significantly improved in the experimental group after transplantation (p<.001). Nausea and vomiting score was significantly decreased in the experimental group during the conditioning regimen (p<.001). Conclusion: It was found that continuous nutritional education and oral mucositis control is an effective intervention by improving immune condition. Further investigations concerning direct examination of oral intake with controlling the effect of the chemotherapy are needed to ultimately discern the impact of varying oral nutrition patterns during HSCT.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.257-262
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• 2008

목 적: 두경부 영역에 대한 방사선치료 시 발생하는 구강점막염은 방사선치료로 유발되는 급성 합병증 중에서 가장 심각하고 해결해야 할 문제점이다. 따라서 본 저자들은 마우스를 이용하여 방사선 구강점막염 모델을 확립하고자 본 연구를 진행하였다. 대상 및 방법: 본 실험에는 $7{\sim}8$주령의 20 g 내외의 웅성 BALB/c 마우스 55마리를 사용하였다. 1주일간 순화 후 대조군 5마리를 제외하고 체중에 따라 무작위로 3군으로 나누고 마우스의 두경부에 각각 16, 18, 20 Gy의 방사선을 조사하였다. 방사선조사 후 체중을 매일 측정하고 생존 유무를 관찰하였다. 방사선조사 후 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 14일째 마우스를 경추탈골사 한 후 설조직을 채취하고 hematoxylin & eosin (H&E) 염색으로 조직학적 변화를 확인하였다. 결 과: 방사선조사군의 경우 5일 이후 급격한 체중감소를 나타내었고 18 Gy와 20 Gy군에서 마우스가 사망하였다. 16 Gy군에서는 5일부터 9일까지는 평균 체중이 감소하였으나 이후 회복되었다. 조직학적 변화를 관찰한 결과 방사선조사 후 시간경과에 따라 상피층의 두께가 얇아지면서 편평해지는 경향을 나타내었으며 7일과 9일째에 가장 심각한 상태를 나타내었다. 대조군에서 평균 $113.50{\pm}2.41{\mu}m$이던 상피층 두께가 방사선조사 후 시간이 지남에 따라 유의하게 그 두께가 감소하였으며 7일째에는 43.9% 감소한 $63.70{\pm}3.28{\mu}m$로 최저치를 나타내었다(p<0.0001). 14일째에는 $121.00{\pm}2.82{\mu}m$로 대조군과 유의한 차이가 없어 정상적으로 회복되는 것으로 나타났다. 결 론: BALB/c 마우스에서 방사선조사 후 마우스의 체중변화를 관찰 할 수 있는 적절한 방사선 선량은 16 Gy였다. 또한 구강 내 상피조직의 현저한 손상은 방사선조사 후 7일과 9일째 관찰할 수 있었고 9일째에는 심각한 궤양화가 나타났다. 18 Gy와 20 Gy 조사 후 9일과 10일째에 모든 마우스가 사망하였지만 16 Gy 조사군에서는 14일째 조직이 정상적으로 회복되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.123-127
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• 2003

Chemical burns onto oral mucosa which are infrequent, may result from contact with a wide variety of chemical agents. The degree of injury depends on the chemical, its concentration, duration of contact, and the natural penetrability and resistance of the tissues involved. Chemicals do not usually "burn" in that they do not cause destruction by hyperthermic activity. Rather, they damage tissue by causing coagulation of protein by one of several processes, reduction, oxidation, desiccation, corrosion, or vesication. Paraquat(Gramoxon) is the most frequently agricultural chemicals that induce the severe toxic reactions onto the organs of human body in Korea. The toxic reaction are composed of pulmonary edema and fibrosis, formation of hyaline membrane, inflammatory reaction and bleeding tendency, owing to the cell damage by the production of superoxide radicals. The contents of essential treatment in paraquat intoxication are commonly airway and breathing maintenance, gastric lavage, much hydration and diuresis, hemoperfusion and medications for the removal of the chemicals and the prevention of various complications. The sedative oral dressings, such as, orabase ointment application, warm saline gargling, lidocaine viscous gargling and oral gargling by the mixed solutions(tetracycline, prednisolone and 10% dextrose water) are important for the improvement of chemical oral mucositis and the comfortable feeding of diet. The authors managed properly two cases of oral chemical mucositis that were occurred by the incorrect use of agricultural chemicals(paraquat) and report the cases with the review of literatures about care of the chemical intoxication and oral mucositis.

• 대한약학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한약학회 2001년도 Proceedings of International Convention of the Pharmaceutical Society of Korea
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• pp.165.3-166
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• 2001

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제52권2호
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• pp.247-250
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• 2009

Stevens-Johnson 증후군은 피부에 특징적 발진과 수포를 동반하고 두 개 이상의 점막 조직에 병변을 보이는 것을 특징으로 하는 질환으로 감염, 예방 접종, 약물, 전신 질환 및 물리적 자극 등이 원인이 될 수 있다. 이 가운데 Mycoplasma pneumoniae는 소아기의 Stevens-Johnson 증후군의 가장 흔한 원인이다. 최근 Mycoplasma pneumoniae에 의한 피부 병변 없이 심한 점막의 병변만을 보이는 경우가 보고되었다. 이러한 경우를 피부 병변이 없는 Stevens-Johnson 증후군이거나 혹은 다른 개별적 질환으로 보아야 할지에 대해서는 아직 논란이 되고 있다. 병력에서 특이 사항이 없는 발열과 심한 경구 및 입술의 병변과 결막염으로 입원한 6세 남아가 임상 검사에서 Mycoplasma 항체 증가 이외에는 특이 소견을 보이지 않아 저자들은 Mycoplasma에 의한 피부병변 없는 Stevens-Johnson증후군으로 진단하였고 이를 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.172-177
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• 2006

It is generally known that mucositis which often occur on hematopoietic disease patients, shows local necrosis of oral mucosa when the CBC is below the normal range. But sometimes, the lesions are occasionally infiltrate into adjacent tissue. When the pathologic destructive expansion is occurred, differential diagnosis with fungal infection, one of opportunistic infections, is needed. This means treatment and prognosis can be changed according to the diagnosis. So the diagnostic process is more important in this hematopoietic disease patients. In case of fungal infection, the range of tissue damage can expand broadly, and also proper antifungal agent and surgical extirpation should be done. After operation, continuous antifungal therapy and observations are needed. We made a comparative study of following 2 cases of fungal infection appeared on the acute lymphatic leukemia patients to discuss what the proper surgical treatment and medications are, and when the proper surgical intervention time is.

• 대한영양사협회학술지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.168-178
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• 2009

Hematopoietic stem cell tranntation is being widely used in an attempt to treat many hematological diseases such as leukemia, anemia, and lymphoma. To evaluate the success of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, it is very important to determine how rapidly engraftment occurs. Therefore, this retrospective study was conducted to determine which factors affected the term of engraftment during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, while focusing on the oral intake status. To accomplish this, 416 patients who underwent transplant operations at St. Mary's hospital from May 2006 to April 2008 were evaluated. The long-term engraftment group was characterized as having longer fasting days and more frequent vomiting, diarrhea, and oral mucositis incidences than the short-term engraftment group. In addition, the inhibitors of oral intake such as vomiting, diarrhea, and oral mucositis developed frequently between the pre-transplantation and 2 weeks after transplantation. A significantly negative correlation was observed between the oral intake volume and the duration of the oral intake inhibitors. A multiple regression analysis revealed that the frequency of vomiting and oral mucositis during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the length of hospitalization, and the hematocrit level in the 2 weeks after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation were significant predictors of engraftment. The results of this study could be used to establish a guideline for nutritional assessment, nutritional goals, and nutritional support for patients during hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.67-76
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• 2006

목적 : 구내염은 두경부종양이 있는 암환자에게 방사선 및 항암제 치료 시술 시 매우 흔하게 발생하는 합병증이다. 본 연구는 Rat 의 방사선성 구내염 모델에서 recombinant human epidermal growth factor (rhEGF)의 효과를 평가하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 25 Gy의 방사선량으로 두부에 단회 조사한 Rat를 무작위로 7마리씩 무처치군, 부형제 처치군, rhEGF 15 또는 $30{\mu}g/day$ 구강 내 처치군으로 나누었으며, 방사선을 조사하지 않은 7 마리의 Rat를 정상시험군으로 나누었다 rhEGF 시료 및 부형제는 1일 3회 Rat 의 구강점막에 매일 도포하였다. Rat의 생존율, 체중변화 및 사료섭취량을 18일 동안 관찰하였으며, 방사선 조사 후 7 일 및 18 일째에 Rat의 구강점막을 조직학적으로 평가하였다. 결과 : 실험종료 시점에서 rhEGF 15 또는 $30{\mu}g/day$ 구강 내 처치군이 모두 33%의 생존율을 보인 것에 비하여, 무처치군 및 부형제 처치군은 모두 0%의 생존율을 보였다. 체중변화에서도 rhEGF 처치군은 방사선 조사 후 2일부터 7일까지 부형제 처치군에 비하여 Rat 의 평균체중이 통계적으로 더욱 무거웠다 사료섭취율은 모든 시험군에서 방사선 조사 후 4 일까지 감소하는 양상을 보이다가, rhEGF 15 또는 $30{\mu}g/day$ 구강 내 처치군에서 14일째에 뚜렷한 사료섭취율의 증가가 관찰되었다. 방사선 조사 후 7 일째의 조직학적 분석 결과, rhEGF 15 또는 $30{\mu}g/day$ 구강 내 처치군의 Rat 에서는 점막 표피층의 각질세포의 종창 및 변성만이 관찰되었던 것에 비하여, 무처치군 및 부형제 처치군에서는 심한 위막성 또는 궤양성 구내염이 관찰되었다. 결론; rhEGF (15 또는 $30{\mu}g/day$ 구강 내 처치군) 처치에서 방사선 조사로 유발시킨 Rat의 구내염 모델에서 유의성 있는 치유 효과를 확인하였으며, 본 시험결과로 rhEGF가 방사선에 의해 유발된 구내염을 치료할 수 있는 임상 제제로써의 가능성을 볼 수 있었다.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.413-418
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• 2016

Objective: To assess the safety and effectiveness of a mouth-rinse with G-CSF (JiSaiXin, produced by NCPC Biotechnology Co., Ltd) in treating patients with chemotherapy-induced oral mucositis (CIM). Method: A consecutive cohort of patients with advanced cancers and CIM were treated with mouth-rinse G-CSF. All chemotherapy for patients with advanced cancers was adopted from regimens suggested by NCCN guidelines. The mouth-rinse with G-CSF at a dose of 150-300ug plus 100ml-500ml normal saline was started from the time of oral mucositis was confirmed and continuously used for at least 7 days as one course. After at least two courses of treatment, safety and efficacy were evaluated. Results: There were 7 female and 7 male patients with advanced cancer and CIM recruited into this study, including 5 with colorectal, 2 with lung, 1 patient with gastric, 1 with cervical and 1 with pancreatic cancer, as well as 2 patients with diffuse large B cell lymphomas, 1 with nasopharyngeal and 1 with gastric cancer. The median age was 57 (41-79) years. Grade 1 to 2 myelosuppression was observed in 3/14 patients, and Grade 4 myelosuppression in 1/14. Adverse effects on the gastrointestinal tract were documented in 5/14 patients, and were Grade 1 to Grade 3. No treatment related death was documented. Regarding CIM, the median response time to mouth rinse of G-CSF was 2 (1-5) days, and all patients with CIM demonstrated a positive response. Conclusions: Mouth-rinse with G-CSF proved to be safe and effective in treating patients with advanced cancers and CIM. However, further randomized controlled studies should be conducted to clarify the effectiveness of this treatment with other lesions.