• The Korean Journal of Cytopathology
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.57-61
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• 1997

A primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid is extremely rare disease. We evaluated this disease by fine needle aspiration cytology in a 43 year-old female. On physical examination, the thyroid was moderately enlarged and palpated with hard consistency. The cytologic aspirate revealed nests of squamous cells, malignant squame and thyroid follicular cells in the necrotic background. We diagnosed this tumor as squamous cell carcinoma with cytologic evidence. Surgically resected thyroid revealed well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma. Immunohistochemical staining for antithyroglobulin proved that this tumor was primary in origin and clinical study confirmed this lesion to be of primary thyroid origin rather than metastasis or direct invasion from contiguous structures.

• The Korean Journal of Ecology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.257-260
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• 1983

The concentration of heavy metals in 12 eggs collected from 6 nests of Intermediate Egret, Egretta intermedia intermedia from Ogjong-myun, Hadong-gun, Kyungnam, was examined by atomic absorption spectrophoto-meter method in 1983. It was found that heavy metals are contained in their eggs with highest concentration Cd and Cu in the eggshell and Cr, Zn, Pb and Mn in the yolk, respectively. The thin-shelled group, by their eggshell thickness grouping, contained heavy metal in higher amount than that of thick eggshelled group. And the thin group showed small values in weight of individual egg, its yolk and albumen.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.201-206
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• 2008

This study was conducted to determine clutch size and habitat usage of Kentish plovers (Charadrius alexandrinus) breeding on Sinja-do lslet in the Nakdong Estuary from 22 April to 12 July in 1995 and from 21 April to 20 June in 1996. The Kentish plover preferred grasslands and damp sands to dry dunes as nesting sites. The difference in hatching success among these microhabitats was attributed to high tides, which washed away many nests on damp sands, and strong winds, which frequently shifted the sand to bury eggs on dry dunes. The main mortality factor in grasslands was predation by magpies Pica pica. Each clutch contained one to four eggs, with a mode of three eggs. Hatching success was highest in two-egg clutches and lowest in one- and four-egg clutches. The mean interval for egg laying was 1.8 days between the first and second eggs and 2.1 days between the second and third eggs. The average incubation period was about 24.2 days.

• The Korean Journal of Cytopathology
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.94-99
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• 1992

Meningioma is the most common neoplasm of central nervous system which is hardly diagnosed by cytologic examination. However, preoperative cytologic diagnosis can be easily made in the case of extracranial meningioma, especially in head and neck lesion. We recently experienced a case of fine needle aspiration cytology of meningioma in sub-mandibular area of a 24 year-old male patient. The smear revealed high cellularity in the clean background. individual tumor cell of nests or syncytium had round or oval nuclei with fine chromatin and moderate amount of lightly stained cytoplasm with indistinct margin. Characteristic cellular whorls, intranuclear inclusions and scattered psammoma bodies made it easy to diagnose a meningioma.

• The Korean Journal of Cytopathology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.19-24
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• 1992

A case of paraganglioma of the retroperitoneum diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology is described. A 60-year-old man presented with abdominal discomfort for 4 months. The smear revealed cellular sheets with partly rosettoid appearance. Many piexiform capillaries were distributed between the cellular sheets or encircled the cellular nests forming zell-ballen pattern. The tumor cells were monotonous and oval to round. The cytoplasm was amphophillc, finely granular and poorly defined. The nuclei were round and had evenly dispersed chromatin and small nucleoli. Cells having large or spindle nuclei were some-times observed. The tissue sections showed typical findings of paragnglima. The cytological differential diagnoses included islet cell tumor of the pancreas and carcinold tumor. The clinical and histoloigic findings as well as cytologic findings were helpful to confirm the diagnosis.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.311-314
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• 2002

A 48-year-old man whose symptom had intermittent right chest pain and x-ray film revealed large mass on right mid lung fields was examined. A conclusive histological diagnosis of large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma was made following bilobectomy. Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma is an uncommon pulmonary neoplasm, which is characterized by large cell size and low nuclear to cytoplasmic. This tumor shows prominent organoid nests of tumor cells with peripheral palisading and rosette-like structures. We experienced one case of large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of lung and report it with references.

• The Korean Journal of Cytopathology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.92-96
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• 1996

Extrathoracic metastases of thymomas are extremely rare, occurring in less than 2% of cases. We present a case of metastatic thymoma in the liver diagnosed by aspiration biopsy. A fine-needle aspirate from a hepatic mass of a 65-year old man who had a history of malignant thymoma locally invading pericardium was examined. Nests of epithelial cells with few scattered lymphocytes were present. The nuclei of the epithelial cells were round to oval and appeared relatively uniform and regular, with fine chromatin pattern. They had one or two, small but lather conspicuous nucleoli. Unlike previous reports on the findings of the aspiration cytology of thymomas, the characteristic biphasic pattern was not present in this case.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.362-366
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• 2019

A marine green algal species (Chlorophyta) was collected from the eastern coast of Korea. It is morphologically characterized by monostromatic thallus, usually undulate and entire margins, cap-like chloroplast and several pyrenoids per cell. In a phylogenetic tree based on molecular data, the Korean alga nests in the same clade as Monostroma alittorale originally described from Japan, as a sister clade of M. grevillei from France. The genetic distance for ITS(Internal Transcribed Spacer) sequences among Monostroma species ranges from 2.3% to 38.2%. The value between the Korean entity and M. alittorale was calculated as 0.01%, considered to be intraspecific divergence. This Korean entity is identified as Monostroma alittorale based on morphological and molecular analyses. This is the first record of M. alittorale in Korea.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Biology
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.293-298
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• 2019

A marine ulvalean species (Chlorophyta) was collected from the eastern coast of Korea. This species is morphologically characterized by a distromatic, dark to medium green and mostly irregularly orbicular or irregularly expanded thallus with entire or undulate margin without serrations. Vegetative cells are irregularly polygonal with distinctly rounded corners in shape, and have chloroplast completely covering the outer cell wall and one to two pyrenoids per cell. In a phylogenetic tree based on ITS (Internal Transcribed Spacer) sequences, this Korean alga nests in the same clade with Ulva sublittoralis, as a sister clade of U. californica, U. flexuosa and U. tanneri, which share the irregularly orbicular or expanded thallus normally without teeth cells. The genetic divergence between them is intraspecific within Ulva. Accordingly, it is identified as U. sublittoralis based on the morphological and molecular data. This is the first record of Ulva sublittoralis in the Korean marine algal flora.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Industry Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.501-508
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• 2003

In this paper A new theory of linear loop transformation called Elimination of Data Dependency(BDD) is presented. The current framework of linear loop transformation cannot identify a significant fraction of parallelism. For this reason, a method to extract the maximum loop parallelism in perfect nested loops is presented. This technique is applicable to general loop nests where the dependence include both distance and directions.