• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제50권5호
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• pp.630-635
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• 2001

저자들은 발열, 복통 등의 임상증상을 보이며 복부 CT촬영 결과 다발성의 저음영 병변을 보였으며 초음파를 통한 비장 생검 결과 육아종성 염증소견을 보여 항 결핵제 치료 후에도 호전없어 비장절제를 시행한 비장결핵 1예와 항 결핵제로 치료하고 있는 비장결핵 1예를 각각 경험하였기에 이를 보고하는 바이다.

• 고신대학교 의과대학 학술지
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.438-445
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• 2018

Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare chronic B cell leukemia morphologically characterized by cells with an abundant cytoplasm and hair-like projections that can be found in the peripheral blood and bone marrow. The treatment for HCL is splenectomy or chemotherapy with the purine analogs pentostatin and cladribine. However, patients continue to relapse. Retreatment with the same or alternate purine analogs produces lower response rates and a shorter duration of response. Fludarabine is another purine analog widely used in treating indolent lymphoid cancers, often in combination with rituximab. Here, we report a case of HCL variant in a 60-year-old man who experienced multiple relapses after splenectomy and retreatment with cladribine. The patient was then treated with fludarabine and rituximab combination chemotherapy. After the treatment, he achieved complete remission that continued for 35 months.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.15-25
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• 1999

최근 소아의 비장 손상시는 비수술적 처치로 치유되는 경우가 대부분이나 대량출혈이 있거나 혈관 손상이 있을 경우에는 수술적 처치가 불가피한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 소아에서 심한 비장손상 시 비장동맥색전술을 시행하여 비장 출혈을 어느정도 저지 시킬 수 있는지에 대해 검토하였다. 환아는 두 군으로 나누어 제 1군은 1993년 1월 부터 1994년 12월까지 비장 손상으로 내원 후 기존의 비수술적 처치 원칙에 따라 치료받은 환자 18례를 대상으로 하였고 제 2군은 1996년 1월부터 1997년 12월까지 내원하여 비장 동맥 색전술이 치료원칙에 도입된 후 치료 받은 환자 23례를 대상으로 하였다. 비장동맥 색전술은 grade III 또는 IV의 비장 손상시, 복부전산화 단층 촬영상 조영제의 누출 있는 경우, 동반장기의 손상 없이 활력 징후에 이상 있을 경우 등에서만 시행하였다. 제 1군에서는 18례중 6례(33.3%)에서 개복술이 시행되었고 이중 2례는 복강내 장기의 동반 손상이 있었다. 6례중 5례는 비장 절제술 1례는 비장 부분절제술이 시도 되어 총 비장 보존율은 72.2 % 였다. 제 2군에서는 8례에서 동맥 조영술상 비장 출혈이 확인된 후 색전술이 시행되었고 모두 성공적으로 비장 출혈을 멈출 수 있었다. 제 2군에서 개복술이 시행된 경우는 2례였는데 모두 동반 장기 손상으로 수술이 시행되었으며 이중 1례에서만이 비장절제술이 시행되어 제 2군에서의 비장보존율은 95.6%였으며 색전술후 수혈을 필요로 했던 경우는 없었다. 결론적으로 비장동맥 색전술은 비장 손상에 의한 비장 출혈시 매우 효과적인 방법으로, 이를 통해 보다 많은 비장을 보존할 수 있을 뿐더러 불필요한 개복술을 줄일 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.137-140
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• 1999

Congenital afibrinogenemia is a rare disorder characterized by a congenital lack of fibrinogen, a key component of the hemostatic system. Bleeding manifestations of congenital afibrinogenemia vary in severity from mild to catastrophic. This is a case report of splenic rupture occurred in an eight-year-old boy with congenital afibrinogenemia. Nonoperative treatment with cryoprecipitate and virally inactivated, purified fibrinogen concentrates successfully avoided splenectomy.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.241-246
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• 2023

Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) is a disease in which thrombocytopenia occurs because of immune-mediated platelet destruction and decreased platelet production. Although many pediatric patients with ITP experience spontaneous remission or reach remission within 12 months of first-line therapy, approximately 20% progress to chronic ITP. Patients who do not respond to first-line treatment or experience frequent relapses are of great concern to physicians. This review summarizes recent treatments for second-line treatment of pediatric chronic ITP.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.155-160
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• 2018

A 6-year-old intact female Shih-tzu dog was referred due to anorexia. Physical examination, complete blood count, serum chemical analysis, radiography, and ultrasonography were evaluated. Physical examination and hematological analysis showed normal findings. Abdominal radiographs and ultrasound revealed well-defined masses in the spleen. Other abdominal organs showed no significant abnormalities. Tissue samples taken via sono-guided fine needle aspiration of the splenic mass showed many bare nuclei, which were variable in size. Results of histopathological and immunohistochemical (IHC) analyses performed after splenectomy were consistent with paraganglioma. Based on these findings, we diagnosed this patient with a paraganglioma of splenic origin. Two months after splenectomy, abdominal ultrasonography revealed a new neoplastic lesion in the liver. The clients refused further management and the patient expired three months after initial diagnosis. Necropsy as well as histopathological and IHC examinations of other systemic organs including the liver, adrenal gland, kidney, brain, urinary bladder, lung, aortic body, carotid body, and pancreas were performed. The neoplastic tissue in the liver also demonstrated features of a paraganglioma, and there were no remarkable findings in all other organs.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.221-231
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• 2006

Solid pseudopapillary tumor (SPT) of the pancreas occurs most frequently in the second or third decades of life, and is prevalent in females. Unlike other pancreatic malignancy, SPT usually has a low malignancy potential. This study reviews our clinical experience and surgical treatment of pancreatic SPT. Admission records and follow-up data were analyzed retrospectively for the period between January 1996 and January 2003. Five patients with a pancreatic mass were operated upon and SPT was confirmed by pathology in each case. The male to female ratio was 1: 4. The median age was 13.8 years. Findings were vague upper abdominal pain (n=5, 100 %) and an abdominal palpable mass (n=3, 60 %). The median tumor diameter was 6.8cm and the locations were 2 in the pancreatic head (40 %) and 3 in the pancreatic tail (60 %). Extra-pancreatic invasion or distant metastasis was not found at the initial operation in all five cases. A pyloruspreserving pancreaticoduodenectomy (n=1) and a mass enucleation (n=1) were performed in two patients of pancreatic head tumors. For three cases of tumors in pancreatic tail, distal pancreatectomy (n=2) and combined distal pancreatectomy and splenectomy (n=1) were performed. The median follow-up period was 60 months(12-117month). During the follow-up period, there was no local recurrence, nor distant metastasis. Postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy was not carried out. All five children were alive during the follow up period without any evidence of disease relapse. SPT of the pancreas in childhood has good prognosis and surgical resection of the tumor is usually curative.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2008

An intact male, 3-year old, Sapsari, weighing 29 kg with a history of respiratory distress, anorexia, abdominal distension, and depression for 1 day was referred. Radiographic findings included a C-shaped soft tissue mass in the mid-abdominal cavity and loss of serosal detail. Ultrasonographs showed splenomegaly with hypoechoic coarse parenchyma, loss of venous flow in the dilated splenic veins, and thrombi. Based on image findings, acute isolated splenic torsion was diagnosed. Splenectomy and prophylactic gastropexy was performed. Another case was a spayed female, 8-year old, Shih-tzu, weighing 3.7 kg with a history of intermittent abdominal pain and a palpable abdominal mass for 1 year. Radiographic findings showed splenomegaly characterized by a soft tissue round mass. Ultrasonographs revealed displaced splenic hilum and absence of venous flow in the dilated splenic vein. Chronic isolated splenic torsion was diagnosed and also splenectomy and gastropexy was performed. Two dogs were recovered normally after surgery without any complications. Acute form of isolated splenic torsion showed acute systemic clinical signs, severe C-shaped splenomegaly on radiographs, and loss of all of splenic venous flow, perivenous hyperechoic triangle sign, and thrombi on ultrasonographs. Chronic form of isolated splenic torsion showed chronic obscure clinical signs, moderate splenomegaly on radiographs, and partial loss of splenic venous flow on ultrasonographs.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.107-112
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• 1972

Recently we experienced a case of the portal hypertension, extrahepatlc origin in the National Medical Center, Seoul. The case was a male aged 19 who was undergone the elective splenorenal shunt with splenectomy 9 years ago and emergency ligation of the coronary vein because of recurred variceal rupture 6 years later and had recurring esophageal varices with bleeding this time.At the age of 10 he had been occasionally suffering from nasal bleeding and visited to our Pediatric department, when there was encountered for the first time the splenomegaly, esophageal varices in the lower third esophagus on the esophagogram, and stenosis and kinking of the portal vein with rich collateral circulation on the splenoportography without hepatic functional impairment.The elective splenorenal shunt with splenectomy was undergone under the diagnosis of portal hypertension due to congenital anomaly of the portal vein and postoperatlvely no troubles had been obtained until postoperative 1st attack of massive hematemesis due to esophagenl variceal rupture recurred about 6 years later which was confirmed by control esophagogram and it was resulted by stenosis of previous anastomotic site of the splenorenal shunt.Then emergency ligation of the coronary vein was only made for bleeding control and no episodes of hematemesis had been encountered thereafter until April 1972 about 3 years after the 2nd operation, when hematemesis recurred again. In this time, recurring esophageal varices were noted in the lower third esophagus on the control esophagogram and he was employed side to end mesocaval shunt as the final step of portal decompression,and following results were obtained. 1] No postoperatlve troubles as leg edema or pain: Postoperatively leg elevation and elastic bandage on the both legs were employed until discharge. 2] During operation the portal pressure was 300 mm $H_2O$ and immediately lowered to 170 mm $H_2O$ after shunt.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.200-203
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• 1995

Splenic tuberculosis is an uncommonly considered diagnosis in clinical practice. This is a case report of splenic tuberculosis in a 13-year-old boy who was seronegative to HIV. He was just well until 7 days prior to this admission when he started to feel epigastric and left subchondral pain. Chest X-ray was not pathological. Abdominal ultrasonography showed slight splenomegaly with multiple hypoechoic nodules and abdominal CT disclosed multiple irregular hypodense lesions in the spleen. Radiological interpretation suggested the possibility of lymphoma or metastatic malignancy. Splenectomy was done and the histopathological findings showed extensive chronic granulomatous inflammation compatible with tuberculosis. Splenic tuberculosis must be included in the differential diagnosis of hypoechoic and hypodense lesions by means of sonography and computed tomography, respectively.