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Case Report
A Case of Multiple Sclerosis
Young Hee Ha, Jong Hyun Kim, Soo Joong Lee, Dae Kyun Koh
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1998;41(2):264-269.   Published online February 15, 1998
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system and its lesions are multiple in time as well as space. We experienced a case of a 14-year-old-girl with dysphagia, paresthesia and headache. Brain MRI scans demonstrated high signal intensities on T2-weighted images at the medulla and upper cervical cord. Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis was diagnosed and methylprednisolone pulse...
Original Article
Pertussis Antibodies in the Sera of Children after Acellular Pertussis Vaccination
Jeong Hwa Lee, Young Hee Ha, Ji Whan Han, Won Bae Lee, Kyong Su Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1997;40(2):167-172.   Published online February 15, 1997
Purpose : The pertussis vaccines are divided into whole-cell vaccine and acellular vaccine. Purified component acellular pertussis vaccine, originally developed in Japan, has been used for primary immunization series in Korea since 1984. We performed this study to evaluate the prevalence of pertussis antibodies following vaccination with acellular pertussis vaccine. Methods : We randomized 80 children who were immunized according to vaccine schedules...