• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제37권4호
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• pp.415-420
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• 2010

Purpose: Heterotopic calcification is a pathological event in which deposits of calcium salts build up, usually in the joint area or soft tissues. It can occur under many conditions and in some rare cases may develop in burn scars. In particular, ulcerations in burn scars accompanied by heterotopic calcification are difficult to treat through conservative treatment. This study reports methods for accurate diagnosis and adequate treatment of ulceration in burn scars accompanied by heterotopic calcification. Methods: Fourteen patients who visited our hospital from March 2008 to January 2010 were subjected to this study. Their sex, age, modes of burn, degree, TBSA (%), ulcerated area, the time of occurrence of the ulcerations in the burn scars were investigated. In addition, radiological examination and biopsy was performed to diagnose heterotopic calcification. Results: Among the 14 cases, 6 were male and 8 were female. The average age of the patients was 48.2 (27 - 69 yrs). As for the mode of burn, 11 were flame burns and 3 were scalding burns. The average time of occurrence of the ulcerations in the burn scars was 4.5 months. The ulcerated areas were situated in the legs in 12 cases, arms in 1 case, and torso in 1 case. The diagnosis was confirmed through X-ray and biopsy, and skin graft was performed after wide excision. Conclusion: Diagnosis of the ulceration in burn scars accompanied by heterotopic calcification is possible through radiological and pathologic studies. Surgical treatment is the most reliable method of treatment, and we chose to perform skin graft after wide excision. Also, we learned that the complete removal of the calcified tissue and the inflammatory fibrotic tissues is crucial in preventing recurrence. Also, in contrast to Marjolin's ulcer, heterotopic calcification had a small size, little or no granulation tissue, and lacked fungating type ulceration. Therefore, favorable prognosis could be achieved through adequate treatment.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.281-286
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• 2017

Background: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the spine is the preferred diagnostic tool for pathologic conditions affecting the spine. However, in patients receiving epidural corticosteroid injection (ESI) for treatment of spinal diseases, there is a possibility of misreading of MR images because of air or fluid in the epidural space after the injection. Therefore, we defined the characteristics of abnormal changes in MRI findings following an ESI in patients with low back pain. Methods: We reviewed the medical records of 133 patients who underwent MRI of the lumbar spine within 7 days after ESI between 2006 and 2015. All patients were administered an ESI using a 22-gauge Tuohy needle at the lumbar spine through the interlaminar approach. The epidural space was identified by the loss of resistance technique with air. Results: The incidences of abnormal changes in MRI findings because of ESI were 54%, 31%, and 25% in patients who underwent MRI at approximately 24 h, and 2 and 3 days after ESI, respectively. Abnormal MRI findings included epidural air or fluid, needle tracks, and soft tissue changes. Epidural air, the most frequent abnormal finding (82%), was observed in 41% of patients who underwent MRI within 3 days after injection. Abnormal findings due to an ESI were not observed in MR images acquired 4 days after ESI or later. Conclusions: Pain physicians should consider the possibility of abnormal findings in MR images acquired after epidural injection using the interlaminar approach and the loss of resistance technique with air at the lumbar spine.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.4871-4876
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• 2014

Background: We sought to evaluate the role of tumor associated macrophages (TAMs) on the promotion of coal tar pitch extract (CTPE)-induced tumorigenesis of human bronchial epithelial cells (BEAS-2B) and tumor metastasis in nude mice, and related mechanisms. Materials and Methods: BEAS-2B cells were first treated with 2.4 mg/mL CTPE for 72 hours. After removal of CTPE, the cells were continuously cultured and passaged using trypsin-EDTA. THP-1 cells were used as macrophage-like cells. BEAS-2B cells under different conditions (n=6/group) were injected into the back necks of nude mice, and alterations of tumor xenograft growth, indicative of tumorigenicity, and tumor metastasis were determined. Pathological changes (tumor nests and microvascular lesions) of HE-stained tumor tissues were also evaluated. The expression of AP-1(c-Jun) in xenografts and metastatic tumors was determined using immunohistochemistry. Results: Tumor size and weight in nude mice transplanted with the mixture of CTPE-induced passage 30 BEAS-2B and THP-1 cells (2:1) were increased compared to those from the CTPE-treated BEAS-2B cells at passage 30 alone at different observation time points. Tumor metastasis to lymph nodes and liver was only detected after transplantation of a mixture the two kinds of cells. The numbers of tumor nests and microvascular lesions, and the expression levels of AP-1 (c-Jun) in tumors from the mixture of two kinds of cells were increased apparently in contrast to those in tumor from the CTPE-treated BEAS-2B cells of passage 30 alone. In addition, there was positive correlation between AP-1 (c-Jun) expression level and the number of microvascular lesions, or between AP-1 (c-Jun) expression level and tumor metastasis in these two groups. Conclusions: TAMs not only facilitate tumorigenesis transformation of CTPE-induced BEAS-2B cells, but also promote tumor growth, angiogenesis and metastasis in nude mice in vivo, which may be mediated by AP-1.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.552-558
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• 2015

Background The Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome (KTS) is characterized by three clinical features, namely cutaneous capillary malformations, venous malformations, and soft tissue and/or bony hypertrophy of the extremities. The varied manifestations are attributed to the unpredictable clinical nature and prognosis of the syndrome. To elucidate the clinical characteristics of this disease, we reviewed a relatively large number of KTS patients who presented to our vascular anomalies center. Methods We conducted a retrospective study with 19 patients who were diagnosed with KTS and treated in our vascular anomalies clinic between 2003 and 2014, and examined their demographic characteristics, their clinical features, and the treatments administered. Results The sex distribution was balanced, with 9 (47%) males and 10 (53%) females. The mean follow-up period was 4.1 years (range, 7 months-9 years). Most of the patients received conservative treatments such as medication or physiotherapy. Compression therapies such as wearing of elastic garments/bandages were also administered, and surgical interventions were considered only when the patients became excessively symptomatic. Other treatments included laser therapy and sclerotherapy, and all the treatments were adjusted according to each case, tailored to the conditions of the individual patients. Conclusions KTS is an extremely rare, multifactorial disorder that induces widely varied symptoms. Because of this unique feature, plastic surgeons, when not careful, tend to attach a one-sided importance to typical symptoms such as limb hypertrophy or capillary malformation and thus overlook other symptoms and clinical features. KTS can be suspected in all infants who show capillary malformations or limb hypertrophy and require a multi-disciplinary approach for comprehensive management.

• 식물조직배양학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.275-280
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• 1999

두릅나무 (Aralia elata Seem.) 2년 생 11개체의 동아를 1.0 mg/L 2,4-D, 3% sucrose, 0.3% gelrite를 포함한 MS 고체 배지에서 체세포배 형성, 발아 및 식물체 재분화에 미치는 개체목의 효과를 조사하였다. 배발생 캘러스의 유도는 개체목에 따른 차이가 있었으나 발아 및 식물체 재분화는 차이가 뚜렷하지 않았다. 배발생 캘러스는 대체로 노란색을 띠었고, 조성은 비배발생 캘러스보다 부드럽고 생장은 다소 느렸다. 체세포배의 발아 및 식물체 재분화는 MS배지의 염류 농도가 크게 영향하였고, 기본배지보다는 염류 농도를 반감시킨 1/2 MS배지에서 BA및 ABA의 처리에 관계없이 양호한 배발아 및 식물체 재분화를 나타냈다. BA처리는 0.1mg/L 농도에서 배축과 자엽 발달에 다소 촉진효과를 나타냈으나 발아와 재분화율은 기본배지보다 우수하지 못했다. 발아되는 배는 자엽수 및 형태에 있어 다양한 변이를 나타냈다. ABA처리는 두릅 체세포배의 발아 및 재분화에 비효과적이었다. 재분화된 식물체는 인공배양토에서 95%이상 환경순화되어 포지에 이식 후 형태적 변이 없이 정상생장이 가능하였다.

• 아시안잔디학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.9-15
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• 2010

2008~2009 겨울 동안 강원도와 전라북도 소재 골프장에서 분리한 황색마름병원균(Rhizoctonia cerealis Van der Hoeven)과 설부갈색소립균핵병원균(이하 설부병원균)(Typhlua incarnata Lasch ex Fr.)에 대한 화본과 식물과 잔디 종(품종)의 저항성이 실내에서 평가되었다. 분리균주의 병원성 검정결과 대부분의 잔디와 화본과 식물에 병을 일으켰지만 균주간의 병원력 차이도 발견되었다. 황색마름 병균은 잔디의 지제부위를 통해 감염하여 연한 갈색의 원형 반점 증상을 보이다가 진전되면 적색을 띄다가 결국 진한 갈색의 증상으로 나타났다. 설부병 증상은 수침형 반점으로 시작해서 전체 식물체를 갈색으로 고사시켰는데, 대부분 감염부위에서 흰색의 균사체가 식물체와 토양을 뒤덮었고 진전되면 다양한 크기의 갈색과 검은색의 독특한 균핵을 형성하였다. 병 발생은 습실기간이 길어질수록 증가하는 경향이었다. 화본과 작물과 잔디의 종(품종)간에는 병원균의 병원력에 차이도 나타났으며 두 병원균에 대해 양적인 차이를 보였다.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.123-132
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• 2009

다양한 전신질환으로 입원한 환자들 중에서 구강질환을 진료받기 위해 내원한 구강내과적인 문제가 있는 54명 환자의 전신질환 상태와 치과적인 주소 그리고 구강질환 진단명을 조사함으로써 입원한 전신질환자의 구강내과적인 진료의 실태를 파악하고자 본 연구를 시행하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 구강내과 질환이 있는 환자는 남자 24명(44%) 여자 30명(56%) 이었으며, 연령은 50대 20명(37%), 60대 14명(26%), 40대 12명(22%), 30대 4명(7%) 순 이었다. 2. 전신질환의 진단명은 내분비, 영양 그리고 대사장애 36%, 순환계질환 36%, 신경계질환 10% 순 이었다. 3. 구강질환의 주소는 정기검사 26%, 두개하악장애 18%, 연조직 문제 18% 순 이었다. 4. 구강질환의 진단명은 타액선질환 32%, 치은염 및 치주질환 23%, 치아안면 이상증 16% 순 이었다. 이상의 결과로 입원한 전신질환자를 통해서 전신질환이 있는 환자의 구강질환과 구강내과적인 질환의 특성을 일정부분 파악하였으나 향후 구강질환과 전신질환과의 상관관계에 대한 연구가 계속적으로 이루어져야 한다고 사료된다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제57권4호
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• pp.397-404
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• 2019

성공적인 임플란트 치료를 위해서는 식립부위의 골조직 및 연조직 상태(condition)도 중요하지만 식립 위치 또한 매우 중요하다. 잘못된 위치에 식립된 임플란트는 생물학적, 심미적, 기계적 문제점을 야기하게 된다. 올바른 위치에 임플란트를 식립하기 위해서는 최종 보철물을 고려해야 하며 이를 위해서는 진단 왁스업 과정이 필요하다. 발치 후 사용 할 임시 의치의 인공치를 진단 왁스업 형태대로 제작하면 구강내에서 진단 왁스업 형태를 평가해 볼 수 있으며, 잘 적응된 임시 의치를 복제해 제작한 임플란트 수술용 템플릿으로 계획된 위치에 임플란트를 식립하는 것이 가능하다. 본 증례에서는 진단 왁스업을 디지털 복제하여 의치용 인공치를 맞춤형으로 제작하였고, 이를 이용해 임시 의치를 제작하였다. 충분한 적응 기간을 거친 후 임시 의치를 복제하여 임플란트 수술용 템플릿을 제작한 다음, 이를 활용하여 계획된 위치에 임플란트를 식립하였다. 골유착을 위한 충분한 치유기간을 가진 다음 진단 왁스업 형태가 반영된 임플란트 지지형 고정성 보철물을 제작하였다. 최종 보철물 장착 후 6개월간의 경과 관찰 기간 동안 심미적, 기능적으로 만족할 만한 치료 결과를 보였기에 이를 보고하고자 한다.

• 한국근적외분광분석학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국근적외분광분석학회 2001년도 NIR-2001
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• pp.1246-1246
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• 2001

The quality of meat is highly variable in many properties. This variability originates from both animal production and meat processing. At the pre-slaughter stage, animal factors such as breed, sex, age contribute to this variability. Environmental factors include feeding, rearing, transport and conditions just before slaughter (Hildrum et al., 1995). Meat can be presented in a variety of forms, each offering different opportunities for adulteration and contamination. This has imposed great pressure on the food manufacturing industry to guarantee the safety of meat. Tissue and muscle speciation of flesh foods, as well as speciation of animal derived by-products fed to all classes of domestic animals, are now perhaps the most important uncertainty which the food industry must resolve to allay consumer concern. Recently, there is a demand for rapid and low cost methods of direct quality measurements in both food and food ingredients (including high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), thin layer chromatography (TLC), enzymatic and inmunological tests (e.g. ELISA test) and physical tests) to establish their authenticity and hence guarantee the quality of products manufactured for consumers (Holland et al., 1998). The use of Near Infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy (NIRS) for the rapid, precise and non-destructive analysis of a wide range of organic materials has been comprehensively documented (Osborne et at., 1993). Most of the established methods have involved the development of NIRS calibrations for the quantitative prediction of composition in meat (Ben-Gera and Norris, 1968; Lanza, 1983; Clark and Short, 1994). This was a rational strategy to pursue during the initial stages of its application, given the type of equipment available, the state of development of the emerging discipline of chemometrics and the overwhelming commercial interest in solving such problems (Downey, 1994). One of the advantages of NIRS technology is not only to assess chemical structures through the analysis of the molecular bonds in the near infrared spectrum, but also to build an optical model characteristic of the sample which behaves like the “finger print” of the sample. This opens the possibility of using spectra to determine complex attributes of organic structures, which are related to molecular chromophores, organoleptic scores and sensory characteristics (Hildrum et al., 1994, 1995; Park et al., 1998). In addition, the application of statistical packages like principal component or discriminant analysis provides the possibility to understand the optical properties of the sample and make a classification without the chemical information. The objectives of this present work were: (1) to examine two methods of sample presentation to the instrument (intact and minced) and (2) to explore the use of principal component analysis (PCA) and Soft Independent Modelling of class Analogy (SIMCA) to classify muscles by quality attributes. Seventy-eight (n: 78) beef muscles (m. longissimus dorsi) from Hereford breed of cattle were used. The samples were scanned in a NIRS monochromator instrument (NIR Systems 6500, Silver Spring, MD, USA) in reflectance mode (log 1/R). Both intact and minced presentation to the instrument were explored. Qualitative analysis of optical information through PCA and SIMCA analysis showed differences in muscles resulting from two different feeding systems.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• 제52권8호
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• pp.904-909
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• 2009

목적 : 암환자들은 암의 재발여부를 추적관찰 하기 위해 다양한 영상검사들을 시행하고 있다. 이러한 환자들의 흉부 방사선 추적검사에서 결절이 발견되는 경우에는 종양의 폐전이를 의심하는 것이 일반적이다. 그러나 다른 질환, 특히 우리나라에서 유병률이 높은 폐결핵도 감별해야 한다. 본 연구는 소아암 환자의 흉부 방사선 추적검사 도중 암의 전이로 오인된 폐결핵의 빈도와 그 임상양상을 분석하고자 하였다. 방법 : 2001년 1월부터 2007년 6월까지 원자력병원에서 암으로 진단된 18세 이하의 소아 환자 422명을 대상으로 하였고, 후향적으로 의무기록을 고찰하여 치료 과정 및 치료종결 후 추적관찰 중 암의 폐전이와 폐결핵이 발병한 경우를 찾아내어 그 임상 양상을 분석하였다. 결과 : 수술 후 암으로 오인된 폐결핵은 5례였다. 이들 5명 환자에서 2명은 기침과 가래 등의 호흡기 증상이 있었으며, 나머지는 특별한 소견이 보이지 않았다. 5명 모두 열, 체중 감소, 쇠약감 등의 전신증상은 관찰되지 않았다. 가족 내 결핵의 가족력을 가지고 있었던 경우는 1례 였고, 조직 항산성 염색을 시행하였는데, 이 중 1례가 결핵균 양성으로 드러났고 나머지 4례는 음성이었다. 결핵 피부반응검사 상 양성으로 나온 경우는 2례였으나 객담 검사는 모두 음성이었다. 비정형결핵과의 감별을 위하여 환자들의 폐병변 조직을 얻었으며 이것으로 Tb PCR 시행한 결과, 1례에서 양성소견이 관찰되었다. 5례 중 4례는 폐병변이 모두 폐결핵으로만 드러났으나 1 례는 특이하게도 폐결핵과 폐 전이가 병발하였다. 이 환자는 이후 종양이 재발해 사망하였다. 결론 : 소아암의 기저질환을 가지고 있었던 환자에 있어서 치료 과정 중 또는 추적 관찰 중 새로이 발견된 폐의 종괴를 진단할 때는 결핵의 가능성도 고려하여야 한다.