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Original Article
Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (Analysis of 34 Cases Including 13 Autopsies)
Yeo Ok Moon, Hee Kyoung Choi, Jeoung-A Her, Woo Jong Shin, Myoung-A Kim, Seong Yong Lee, Seong Hee Jang, Eun Sil Dong, Chong Jae Kim, Young Min Ahn, Je Geun Chi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2002;45(9):1065-1074.   Published online September 15, 2002
Purpose : The purpose of this study is to analyze the epidemiologic characteristics of sudden unexpected death in infancy and to evaluate the importance of postmortem autopsy. Methods : We reviewed, retrospectively, medical records of 34 infants admitted to Kangnam General Hospital from January 1987 to December 2001 because of sudden unexpected death. We investigated the cause of death through medical...
Case Report
Familial Erythrophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis in Siblings
Eun Sook Lee, Ji Eun Choi, Dug Ha Kim, Hae Ran Lee, Chong Young Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1995;38(3):428-434.   Published online March 15, 1995
Familial erythrophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis(FEL) is an uncommon disorder characterized by multi-organ infiltration with phagocytic histiocytes and macrophages. It is a familial discorder presenting during infancy or young childhood with fever, hepartosplenomegaly, pancytopenia, bleeding diathesis, hypertriglyceridemia and neurologic manifestations. The course of the disease is extremely lethal and diagnosis of the disease during lifetime is very difficult. Exact diagnosis can only be...
Original Article
Statistical Study of Perinatal Autopsy.
Gyu Ja Jung, Su Mi Back, Ock Sung Jung, Son Sang Seo, Hye Kyoung Yoon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1989;32(9):1195-1201.   Published online September 30, 1989
Recently, the incidence of perinatal death in this country has decreased by improved antenatal care and resuscitative management, but is still higher than that of developed country. A number of studies on perinatal death have dealed with mainly statistical and clinical aspect. We studied about perinatal death in order to prove more accurate cause of death by autopsy. The subjects of our study were...
Case Report
A Case of Gaucher's Disease.
Hyo Nam Cho, Myung Cheol Cho, Hyung Ro Moon, Je Geun Chi, Hyo Min Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1987;30(7):784-790.   Published online July 31, 1987
We experienced a case of Gaucher’s disease of acute infantile type in a 12 month old male boy. The patient showed hepatosplenomegaly with anemia and thrombocytopenia, developmental delay and frequent infection. There were characteristic Gaucher’s cells in bone marrow aspiration and biopsy of liver, spleen, & lymph node. Splenectomy was done at 25 month old. He expired 3 days after splenectomy. Autopsy was done....
A Case of Dilated Cardiomyopathy.
J S Kim, U P Chung, H S Kim, T C Kwon, C M Kang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1985;28(11):1118-1124.   Published online November 30, 1985
Dilated cardiomyopathy which is a relatively rare heart disease of unknown origin is characterized by massive cardiomegaly as a result of the extensive dilatation of the ventricles. The authors experienced a case of dilated cardiomyopathy in a 5 year old male who expired suddenly in 5 weeks after onset. The autopsy was performed. The autopsy findings showed markedly enlarged left...
An Autopsy Report of a Hydranencephaly.
J K Park, Y J Kim, T J Hwang
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1984;27(3):293-296.   Published online March 31, 1984
A case of hydranencephalic male, who was delivered in prematurity at Chonnam University Hospital and had lived for 41 days after birth, was presented. The pathologic and anatomical findings were hypoplasia of brain cortex, 3rd and lateral ventricles, atresia of the aqueduct of Sylvius and accumulation of 430ml of yellowish fluid in cranial cavity. No associated congenital anomalies of adrenal...
Hyaline Membrane Disease (Five cases report including two autopsy cases).
Jun Hee Kang, Young Min Ahn, Joong Gon Kim, Chun Haeng Park, Jeong Kee Seo, Ok Ja Hwang, Chong Ku Yun, Yoon Seong Lee, Shin Eun Choi, Je G Chi
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1981;24(9):882-890.   Published online September 15, 1981
The hyaline membrane disease is not a common disease in Korea. Only a few reports of small scale are avaiable in the literature. We have experienced 5 cases of HMD during approximately 1 year period. The diagnosis was made either on characteristic clinical and roentgenological features or postmortem examination. The birth weights of these cases were in the range of...