• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권12호
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• pp.4853-4858
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• 2015

Background: Colorectal cancer is the most common gastrointestinal cancer in Oman with an increasing incidence. We here report the presenting features, treatment outcomes and survival in a University hospital in Oman and compare our data with regional and international studies. Materials and Methods: Medical records of patients with colorectal cancer were reviewed retrospectively between June 2000 and December 2013 and were followed until June 2014. Results: A total of 162 patients were diagnosed with colorectal cancer. The majority were males (58.6%), with a median age of 56 years. Rectum was involved in 29.6% of patients, followed by ascending and sigmoid colon. The majority of patients had stage III (42.6%) and stage IV (32.7%) disease at presentation. K-Ras status was checked for 79 patients, and 41 (51.9%) featured the wild type. Median relapse free survival was 22 months. Median overall survival for all patients was 43 months. Observed 5 year overall survival (OS) for stages I, II and III was 100%, 60% and 60% respectively. On Log rank univariate analysis, age, BMI, diabetes, hypertension, metformin use, stage, clinical nodal status for rectal cancer, pathological T and nodal status, site of metastasis, surgical intervention, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, chemotherapy regimen, no of cycles of chemotherapy, response, RFS, site of recurrence and administration of $2^{nd}$ line chemotherapy were significant factors affecting OS. On Cox regression multivariate analysis none of the factors independently affected the OS. Conclusions: The majority of patients present with advanced disease and at young age. The survival rates are comparable to the published regional and international literature.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제14권8호
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• pp.4839-4842
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• 2013

Aims and Background: To improve understanding of the relationship between schistosome-related enteropathy and colorectal carcinoma with particular focus on endoscopic findings and clinicopathological characteristics of colonic schistosomiasis. Materials and Methods: All cases of intestinal schistosomiasis diagnosed at West China Hospital, Chengdu, China, between October 2006 and October 2012 were included in this study. A total of 179 cases of colonic schistosomiasis diagnosed through colonoscopy and pathological examinations were collected for analysis and the demographics, symptoms, endoscopic findings and clinicopathological characteristics were retrospectively evaluated. Results: Of the 179 colonic schistosomiasis patients, 32 combined with colorectal cancer (CRC) were found, between the ages of 44 and 85 years (24 males, 75%). These 32 lesions were classified as 12 endophytic/ulcerative (37.5%), 10 exophytic/fungating (31.2%), 4 annular (12.5%), 3 giant polypus (9.4%), and 3 IIc (superficial depressed type) (9.4%). The segments of rectum and sigmoid colon were involved in 19 patients (59.4%) and 6 patients (18.8%), respectively. The histopathologic types were classified as follows: 30 welldifferentiated adenocarcinomas, one mucinous adenocarcinoma and one poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma. The pathological findings suggest colorectal malignancy with deposited schistosome ova. Conclusions: Chronic schistosomal infestation has a probable etiological role in promoting genesis of colorectal neoplasms.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.951-955
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• 2014

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) was the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in Iran between 2000 and 2009, with adenocarcinoma (AC) as the most common histological type. Demographic, topographic and histological variables are important in the epidemiology and biology of cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate clinicopathological features of colon adenocarcinomas in Qazvin, Iran. Materials and Methods: With a retrospective design, patient records of two pathology wards from March 1997 to March 2013 were studied with regard to anatomical location and histological classification. A broader anatomical grouping was also used including distal vs proximal regions and right sided vs left sided tumors. Data were analyzed using T-test and chi-square test. Results: 118 (50.9%) male and 114 (49.1%) female patients were included in the study. Mean age was $57.3{\pm}14.7$ years, with 29.2% under 50 years. There was no significant gender difference for age at diagnosis. The rectum (56%) and sigmoid colon (25%) were the most frequent anatomical locations. Proximal cases accounted for 18.6% in males and 8.8% in females (p=0.02). AC was more prevalent than other usual types in younger patients. The proportion of proximal cancer was 1.7% in first eight years of the study period vs 12.1% in the second one (p=0.005). A similar trend was also seen in right sided colon cancers (p=0.018). Conclusions: Young people are also at risk for the cancer with poor prognosis. Screening programs and weight loss in obese individuals can reduce incidence and complications of CRC.

• 치과방사선
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.175-189
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to established the characteristic radiographic features in salivary gland diseases by means of sialography and scintigraphy. Sialograms and scintigrams with diseases of salivary gland were examined. In this group were 5 salivary stones, 14 sialadenitis, 17 Sjogren's syndromes and 8 benign tumors. The obtained results were as follows; 1. In the configuration of the shape of main duct, those revealed that modified curvilinear and curvilinear types were predominant in Sjogren's syndromes but reverse sigmoid and angular types were in sialolithiasis and sialadenitis combined with sialodochitis. 2. In the configuration of the course of main duct, those revealed that smooth types were predominant in sialadenitis and irregular types were predominant in Sjogren's syndromes and benign tumors and irregular types were seen in all salivary stones and sialadenitis combined with sialodochitis, 3. In the type of intraglandular pattern, those revealed that destructive changes of salivary duct system and parenchyma were severe in sialadenitis and salivary stones and predominantly severe in Sjogren's syndromes. 4. The function of salivary gland was decreased severely in Sjogren's syndrome. and also decrease in salivary stone and sialadenitis. In benign tumor, the uptake of radioisotope was not seen in lesion and the function of salivary gland decreased in its remaining normal parenchyma.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2008

This work was performed to develop a model possible to predict the influent flow and influent components, which are one of main disturbances causing process problems at the operation of municipal wastewater treatment plant. In this study, artificial neural network (ANN) was used in order to develop a model that was able to predict the influent flow, $COD_{Mn}$, SS, TN 1 day-ahead, 2day-ahead and 3 day ahead. Multi-layer feed-forward back-propagation network was chosen as neural network type, and tanh-sigmoid function was used as activation function to transport signal at the neural network. And Levenberg-Marquart (LM) algorithm was used as learning algorithm to train neural network. Among 420 data sets except missing data, which were collected between 2005 and 2006 at field plant, 210 data sets were used for training, and other 210 data sets were used for validation. As result of it, ANN model for predicting the influent flow and components 1-3day ahead could be developed successfully. It is expected that this developed model can be practically used as follows: Detecting the fault related to effluent concentration that can be happened in the future by combining with other models to predict process performance in advance, and minimization of the process fault through the establishment of various control strategies based on the detection result.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제59권1호
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• pp.17-25
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• 2016

Objective : Treatment of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistulas (dAVFs) remains a challenge. However, after introduction of Onyx, transarterial approach is the preferred treatment option in many centers. We report our experience of dAVFs embolization with special emphasis on transarterial approach. Methods : Seventeen embolization procedures were performed in 13 patients with dAVFs between Jan 2009 and Oct 2014. Clinical symptoms, location and type of fistulas, embolization methods, complications, radiological and clinical outcomes were evaluated using charts and PACS images. Results : All 13 patients had symptomatic lesions. The locations of fistulas were transverse-sigmoid sinus in 6, middle fossa dura in 4, cavernous sinus in 2, and superior sagittal sinus in 1 patient. Cognard types were as follows : I in 4, IIa in 2, IIa+IIb in 5, and IV in 2. Embolization procedures were performed ${\geq}2$ times in 3 patients. Nine patients were treated with transarterial Onyx embolization alone. One of these required direct surgical puncture of middle meningeal artery. Complete obliteration of fistulas was achieved in 11/13 (85%) patients. There were no complications except for 1 case of Onyx migration in cavernous dAVF. Modified Rankin scale score at post-operative 3 months were 0 in 11, and 3 in 2 patients. Conclusion : Transarterial Onyx embolization can be a first line therapeutic option in patients with dAVFs. However, transvenous approach should be tried first in cavernous sinus dAVF because of the risk of intracranial migration of liquid embolic materials. Furthermore, combined surgical endovascular approach can be considered as a useful option in inaccessible route.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.2334-2340
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• 2021

Radioactive particle tracking (RPT) is a minimally invasive nuclear technique that tracks a radioactive particle inside a volume of interest by means of a mathematical location algorithm. During the past decades, many algorithms have been developed including ones based on artificial intelligence techniques. In this study, RPT technique is applied in a simulated test section that employs a simplified mixer filled with concrete, six scintillator detectors and a¹³⁷Cs radioactive particle emitting gamma rays of 662 keV. The test section was developed using MCNPX code, which is a mathematical code based on Monte Carlo simulation, and 3516 different radioactive particle positions (x,y,z) were simulated. Novelty of this paper is the use of a location algorithm based on a deep learning model, more specifically a 6-layers deep rectifier neural network (DRNN), in which hyperparameters were defined using a Bayesian optimization method. DRNN is a type of deep feedforward neural network that substitutes the usual sigmoid based activation functions, traditionally used in vanilla Multilayer Perceptron Networks, for rectified activation functions. Results show the great accuracy of the DRNN in a RPT tracking system. Root mean squared error for x, y and coordinates of the radioactive particle is, respectively, 0.03064, 0.02523 and 0.07653.

• 구강회복응용과학지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.31-40
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• 2009

고무인상재의 유변학적 특성은 높은 정확성을 가진 인상체의 채득에 중요한 역할을 한다. 그러나 국산 고무인상재의 유변학적 특성에 관한 연구가 거의 이루어지지 않았다. 이 연구는 국산 및 수입 고무 인상재의 유변학적 특성을 측정, 연구함으로써 임상적 과정에서 정확성 높은 인상채득에 도움이 되고자 함이다. 시판중인 Type 3 점성을 가진 6종의 고무인상재의 유변학적 특징을 측정하였다. 2종의 국산 폴리비닐실록산, 3종의 수입 폴리비닐실록산, 1종의 폴리이써, 1종의 폴리썰파이드에 대하여 plate 대 plate 형의 rotational rheometer인 HAAKE RHEOSTRESS $1^{(R)}$ 이용하여 Mixing 후 900초간 G′, Loss tangent 값을 측정하였다. 각 제품 당 3회씩 측정 후 통계분석하였다. 국산 PVS, 수입 PVS, Polyether, Polysulfide 모두 G′의 S자형 증가와, Loss tangent 값의 S자형 감소를 보였다. 경화 후 G′ 값의 최대치는 Polyether였으며, 최소치는 Polysulfide였다. Loss tangent의 초기값은 폴리이써 인상재에서 가장 높았으며 국산 폴리비닐실록산 인상재에서 가장 낮았다. 같은 점조도를 가진 국산 PVS 와 수입 PVS의 G′ 값은 유의한 차이가 없었으나, 초기 Loss tangent 값에서 유의한 차이가 나타났다.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.106-123
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• 2000

The purpose of the survey was to clarify the clinical features and management of the anorectal malformations (ARM) in Korea. Twenty-seven members of the Korean Association of Pediatric Surgeons were surveyed. The members completed a case registration form for each patient during the two years period of 1996-1997, and a questionnaire that contained their management preferences for primary and complicated patients. Twenty-four members of the 22 institutions registered 295 cases of the ARM, and 27 out of 34 members (77.1 %) responded to the questionnaire. The patients were classified by the Wingspread classification of ARM(1984). The case registration form was a modification of Wingspread workshop for the postoperative assessment and case registration. The male to female ratio was 1.7 : 1. The average number of patients per surgeon was 6.1 cases per year. Prematurity(< 36 weeks) was present in 1.9 % of cases and low birth weight (< 2.6 Kg) in 12.1 %. Among 187 male patients, 62 were high(H) type, 29 intermediate(l) type, 88 low(L), and 8 unclassified. In female, there were 2 cases of cloacal anomalies(C), 4 H type, 30 I type, 66 L type and 6 unclass ified. For male, 87.9 % of H and I type were operated by the Pena procedure, but only 7.9 % in L types. In female, all of C, H and I types, and 40.9 % of L type were done by the Pena procedure. One case expired (MR; 0.003%) as a result of surgical complication. Over-all complication rate was 12.5 %. Among 6 cases of reoperation, 4 were failed Pena procedures. Among 140 colostomies sigmoid colon was utilized in 75.7%, and loop colostomy was commonly used. Ten surgeons prefered primary maturation of the stoma. In conclusion, posterior sagittal anorectoplasty is popular for high types of ARM in this country, but considerable number of patients are still suffering from failed operations. For better understanding and analysis, necessity of prospective study by new classification was discussed.

• Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.138-146
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• 2007

목 적: 허혈성 소장결장염은 소장과 대장의 장벽에 육안적으로 괴사 반 또는 분절 괴사를 보이고 현미경적으로는 점막 및 점막하층에 허혈성 변화를 일으키는 급성 질환이다. 다양한 임상증상을 보이며 대증 치료로 호전되기도 하지만 장괴저, 독소혈증, 사망 등 중증 경과를 밟기도 한다. 원인은 확실히 밝혀지지 않았지만 장 미세순환의 장애나 과민반응이 주된 병리 기전으로 설명되고 있다. 방 법: 부산대학교병원 소아과에 복통, 혈변, 토혈, 구토 또는 복부팽만 등의 급성 복증으로 내원한 환자중 방사선 검사 소견, 수술 소견, 내시경 소견, 조직병리 소견 등이 괴사 반 또는 분절 괴사의 소견을 보이고 장간막 동맥의 폐쇄의 소견이 없으며 장의 허혈이나 괴사의 다른 기계적 또는 전신적 요인이 없는 허혈성 소장결장염에 합당한 6명의 임상 소견을 후향적으로 분석하였다. 결 과: 1) 남아가 4명, 여아가 2명이었다. 2) 연령 분포는 생후 6주에서 6세까지였다. 3) 만삭에 가까운 1명을 제외하고 모두 만삭아였고 부당경량아 1명을 제외하고는 정상 출생 체중아였다. 4) 증상으로는 선혈변 또는 토혈 5예, 구토, 설사, 복통 또는 보챔이 각각 4예, 복부팽만과 발열 3예였다. 5) 침범 부위는 하행 결장 2예, 하행 결장 및 S상 결장 1예, S상 결장 1예, 전 대장1예, 십이지장 구부 및 위 유문부가 1예였다. 6) 병변의 형태는 궤양 3예, 천공 2예, 괴사 반이 2예, 협착 1예, 심한 막성 상피 탈락 1예였다. 7) 치료로는 천공 부위의 일차 봉합 2예, 보존적 치료(수액 요법, 총 정맥 영양, 항생제 투여, 히스타민 길항제 투여 등) 4예였다. 8) 1예에서 급성 신부전이 동반되었고 사망자는 없었다. 결 론: 허혈설 소장 결장염은 사망에 이를 수 있는 급성 복증 질환으로 소아에서는 매우 드물지만 임상적으로 의심되면 적극적인 검사를 통하여 조기 진단과 적절한 집중치료가 요구된다.