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Review Article
Overseas adoption in Korea
Jae Yoon Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2009;52(4):410-416.   Published online April 15, 2009
In Korea, overseas adoption has been practiced for more than 50 years. Initially, overseas adoption began with the objective to provide permanent homes for Korean war orphans, including mixed-blood children. From 1953 to 2007, about 160,000 Korean children were placed worldwide through overseas adoption and approximately 70,000 children were adopted in Korea. During that period, Korea developed into one of...
Original Article
The Clinical Study on the Neonate Delivered Under the Condition of the Maternal Smoking and Alcohol in Pregnancy
Sun Hui Kong, Soo Yeon Kim, Ho Jun Lee, Hak Sung Kim, Dong Woo Lee, Jae Yoon Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2005;48(1):34-39.   Published online January 15, 2005
Purpose : Perinatal complications associated with maternal smoking and alcohol ingestion in pregnancy have been well documented. But until now there has been no clinical data on it collected in our country. In this paper, we tried to research the association between maternal smoking and alcohol ingestion in pregnancy and the physical indices of the neonate at delivery among unmaried...
Observation on Causes of Adoption and Social Background of Children in Adoption Institution(5th Report)
Hak Sung Kim, Soo Yeon Kim, Sun Hee Kong, Dong Woo Lee, Kyung Eun Kim, Hye Jung Shin, Jae Yoon Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2004;47(3):264-268.   Published online March 15, 2004
Purpose : Through a review of data provided by an adoption institution, this study was designed to provide a clue to help to reduce the abandonment of children by comparing the conditions at birth, social background, reason for request for adoption, and the degree of dependence on foreign adoption compared with the previous four reports. Methods : A total of 445...
Case Report
Three Cases of Subacute Necrotizing Lymphadenitis in Childhood
Min Hyang Park, Jin A Son, Jae Wook Go, Jae Yoon Kim, Don Hee Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(3):423-427.   Published online March 15, 2000
Subacute necrotizing lymphadenitis was first reported by Kikuchi and Fujimoto in 1972. Young females no more than 30 years of age are mainly affected. It usually manifests as fever and cervical lymphadenopathy. We experienced three cases of subacute necrotizing lymphadenitis in an 11-year-old boy, a 12- year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl. Symptoms presented were URI signs, diarrhea, headache and...
Original Article
A Survey of Breast-Feeding
Yun Ah Sung,, Ju Yong Ahn, Hwa Yeon Lee, Jae Yoon Kim, Don Hee Ahn, Yong Jin Hong
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1998;41(4):444-450.   Published online April 15, 1998
Purpose : The superiority of breast-feeding to artificial feeding of infants aged 6 months or less has been well established. Due to the low rate of breast-feeding in our 1994 hospital survey we recommended and educated about breast-feeding to mothers who delivered in our hospital since January 1995. The purpose of this survey is to assess if the rate of breast-feeding increased in our...
The Change of Serum Cholesterol level in Children with Fever
Mi Ja Park, Jae Yoon Kim, Jae Wook Ko, Don Hee Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1996;39(7):908-914.   Published online July 15, 1996
Purpose : This study was undertaken to assess the change of the serum cholesterol level according to the duration of fever in children. Methods : A retrospective study presents data on fasting serum cholesterol assessed 346 children aged from 3 to 14 years, admitted to National Medical Center from Jan. 1992 to Jun. 1994 due to febrile disease. These patients were divided into three...
Evaluation of Culture Proved Tuberculosis Patients
Eun Kyung Lee, Jae Yoon Kim, Young Jin Hong, Don Hee Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(5):633-640.   Published online May 15, 1995
Purpose : Childhood tuberculosis is often asymptomatic with low culture rate, but it may res-ult in serious complications via hematogenous spread. Therefore, this study was done to evalu-ate clinical features, laboratory findings in tuberculosis patients proved by culture. Methods : We reviewed retrospectively the medical records of 48 cases of proved tubercul-sosis at the department of Pediatrics, National Medical Center, during...
Hypercalciuria Associated with Nephropathy (diagnosis by renal biopsy)
Hyun Ho Shin, Jae Yoon Kim, Chong Woo Bae, Sung Ho Cho, Byoung Soo Cho, Chang Il Ahn, Young Tae Ko, Moon Ho Yang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1992;35(11):1509-1513.   Published online November 15, 1992
Idiopathic hypercalciuria is defined as excessive urinary excretion of calcium in normocalcemia without any primary cause. We performed the sono-guided percutaneous renal biopsy for patients of recurrent hematuria, persistent microscopic hematuria, proteinuria and RBC cast to evaluate underlying nephropathy. We could obtained the following results 1) The age at the renal biopsy ranged from 3 years to 14 years. Sex ratio is 1.9:1...
Case Report
A Case of Seronegative Enthesopathy and Arthropathy Syndrome (SEA Syndrome)
Il Su Kim, Jae Yoon Kim, Byung Su Cho, Sung Ho Cha, Chang Il Ahn
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1992;35(10):1459-1462.   Published online October 15, 1992
Seronegative enthesopathy and arthropathy (SEA) syndrome is characterized by male predominance, late age onset, positive family histories of arthritis, oligoarthropathy, axial skeleton involvement, the presence of the B27 histocompatiboility antigen. It has been reported by Rosenberg and Petty in 1982. Early recognition of this syndrome destined to develop seronegative spondyiarthropathy is necessary to prevent axial spine dysfunction and defomity and...