Primary endodermal sinus tumor(yolk sac tumor) of the mediastinum is rare. Most patients are young and male, and the great majority of tumors are found in the anterior mediastinum, and spontaneous hemothorax is a rare presentation of intrathoracic tumors. We report a case of spontaneous hemothorax associated with a posterior mediastinal endoderml sinus tumor occuring in a female patient. Brief review and related literatures... |
Mesenteric lymphangioma was first recognized when an autopsy case was recorded in 1507 by Benevieni. It has been known clinically rare disease and probably a congenital developmental abnormality due to failure of drainage of peripheral primary lymphatic spaces. We experienced a case of abnormal rotation in intestine by mesenteric lymphangioma in a 8 years old male who showed vomiting and abdominal... |
Psudohypoaldosteronism is a salt-wasting disease with unresponsiveness to mineralcorticoid and normal renal and adrenal function. Characteristic findings are severe hyponatremia, hyperkalemia and hyperaldosteronemia. We experienced a case of pseudohypoaldosteronism ina 1-day-old female who was presented with abdominal distension. Laboratory data showed hyponatrmia, hyperkalemia, elevation of plasma renin activity and aldosterone concentration and normal renal, adrenal function. We reported a case of... |
Purpose : Aseptic meningitis is relatively common disease caused by virus, however in most of casesthe main causes are unnoticed since virus culture and isolation is quiet difficult in our country. Authors of this thesis have conducted virus culture and isolation test to figure out cause of aseptic meningitis that was prevalent through out the country from June to July... |
Aneurysm of the vein of Galen is a rare midline arteriovenous malformation, usually presenting with cardiac failure in infancy or with hydrocephalus and raised intracranial pressure in older children. We experienced a case of the vein of Galen aneurysm diagnosed with computed tomographic (CT) features and magnetic resonance image(MRI), a new imaging modality. Our case was a 3 day-old male neonate... |
Goltz syndrome is known as a rare mesoectodermal hereditary disease, characterized by focal dermal atrophies with hernias of adipose tissue and also associated with a multitude of possible skeletal, dental, ophthalmological and other abnormalities. We experienced a case of Goltz syndrome. An one day old female newborn had focal atrophic and telangiectatic skin lesions, microphthalmia, syndactyly and urinary tract abnormality. The finding... |
Breast feeding is one of many factors that have been asociated with the development of lower respiratory tract illnesses. To assess the relation between breast feeding and subsequent experience of lower respiratory tract illness, we performed this study, retrospectively, on 366 infants who had been admitted to the pediatric ward, St. Francisco General Hospital, or had been brought to the... |
Twenty, six children younger than 15 years with severe aplastic anemia underwent either bone marrow transplantation or immunomodulation therapy (antilymphocyte globulin with cyclosporin A therapy). Six patients who had an HLA-identical sibling donor underwent bone marrow transplantation after conditioning with cyclophosphamide, procarbazine and antilymphocyte globulin. Twenty children who did not have an HLA-identical donor recieved antilymphocyte globulin and cyclosporin A. The results were as follows; 1) Hematologic responses:... |
Immunoglobulin (Ig) and T cell receptor 0 chain (TcR分) gene rearrangements can be used as ”genetic marker” of lineage and clonality in the study of lymphoproliferative disease. We analyzed genomic DNA of the bone marrow mononuclear cells from twenty six patients with acute leukemia in children. The patients were seventeen cases of acute lymphocytic leukmia (ALL), seven cases of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia (ANL) and... |
A retrospective study of 10 years* experience with surgical treatment of congenital heart disease in the St. Mary’s Hospital from 1978 to 1987 was made. Data were analyzed on 188 children with congenital heart disease who had received corrective heart surgery under the age of 18 years. The results were as follows: 1) Out of 188 patients, ventricular septal defect(54.2% of all) was the most... |
Clinical analysis of 5 years* experience with mechanical ventilation of 68 neonates in NICU of St. Mary’s Hospital, from Jan. 1983 to June 1988, was done. The results were as follows; 1) Indications for mechanical ventilation were hyaline membrane disease(51.5%), postasphyxia syndrome(19.1%), apnea of prematurity (5.9%), sepsis (5.9%), intracranial hemorrhage (5.9%) and others. 2) Number of male patients was 33(48.5%》and of female was 35(51.5%), and male to female... |
Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic carditis were still important disease of the acquired heart disease in children and adults, in spite of improving socioeconomic status in Korea. Recently, many outbreaks of acute rheumatic fever have been reported in the papers from developed countries. We should be aware of such outbreaks of acute rheumatic fever and should pay attention to their treatment of the patients... |
We observed the patients admitted to the department of pediatrics of St. Mary*s Hospital, Catholic Medical College during the past 20 years from Jan. 1966 to Dec. 1985 and classified them by year and disease according to the International Classification of Disease by W.H.O. (1965 Revision). The results were as follows: 1) The total number of pediatric inpatients during 20 years was 18,686, of which... |
A 8-year old boy with acute lymphocytic leukemia who had shown resistance to repeated combination chemotherapies, was successfully grafted with bone marrow from his HLA- matched sister. He was in the third partial remission at the time of bone marrow transplantation. He was conditioned with cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/day on two consecutive days, followed by 800 rads total body irradiation. Marrow... |
Mucocutaneous Lymphnode Syndrome (MCLS) becomes familiar to pediatrician recently as a new disease entity. However, the pathogenesis of this syndrome is not know yet. Since Dr. Kawasaki’s first cases had reported in 1963, over 30,000 cases of this disease has "been reported in Japan. This study was undertaken to know the epidemiologic status of this dis- ease in this country. The materials were collected from... |
Left ventricular-right atrial shunt is a relatively uncommon defect, which permits as communication between the left ventricle and right atrium. This paper is fifth case report in our country. This patient was noted to have congenital heart disease in two years old. The pathology of this lesion was classified into four types by Perry. The type C is compatible with... |
This clinical trial was undertaken on 32 infants and chhildren who had G-I symptoms caused by a few diseases, such as meningitis, parenteral infection and intestinal infection. Out of 32 patients, six had vomiting only, caused by meingitis and habitual vomiting, eighteen had vomiting and diarrhea both which caused by parenteral infection and rest of them (8) had diarrhea only,... |
This is the clinical statistics concerning the admitted patients observed in the pediatric department of 24 university hospitals and general training hospitals in Korea during the past 3 years from Jan. 1976 to Dec. 1978.All the patients were classified by year and disease according to international classification of disease by W.H.O.(1965 Revision). The results obtained were as follows: 1. Total... |
Statistical analysis according to W.H.O. classification for the patients admitted to 11 hospitals during the years of Jan. 1974 to Dec. 1975 was made. The result obtaind were as follows: 1) Total No. of patients were 15,885 2) Infections and parasitic disease were the most frequent, 4655 cases (29.3%) and respiratory tract disease the next, 3,516 cases(22.13%) 3) Major leading... |
This study was attempted to know the recent changes of the patterns of diseases among Korean children living inurban and rural areas. 21,498 sick-children, who admitted to the thirteen general hospitals which located in urban and rural areas during past five years from Jan. 1994 to Dec. 1978, were analysed for this purpose. 13,759 sick-children(64.0%) were male, others were female... |
The low birth weight infants have been fed with 15% concentration of Maeil Dry Milk G-80(Table 1) until the date of weight gaining to 2.5kg at the nursery room of our pediatric department, St. Mary's Hospital, Catholic Medical College. Feeding results were obtained as follows. 1. General physical condition was fair. The initial weight loss was average 6.8% of their... |
We observed 241 cases of type A hepatitis who were admitted to pediatric department of St. Mary`s Hospital, Cathlic Medial College from Jan. 1,1968 to Dec. 31,1977, and the following results were obtained. 1. Annual incidence was the highest in 1975 and lowest in 1969, but wr observedno significant difference. 2. Seasonal incidence was high in Autumn and Winter, and... |
So-called Muco-Cutaneous Lymphnode Syndrome (MCLS) was reported first in 1967 by Tomisaku Kawasaki Department of Pediatrics, Japanese .Red Cross Central Hospital, Tokyo, Japan and then over 1,857 cases of this syndrome has been reported in Japan recently until 1971. This syndrome was characterized by the continued high fever durated over 10 days. The swelling of cervical lymphnodes simulating Mumps, generalized... |
The authors observed clinically 25 cases of congenital syphilis in Korean infants, treated at the pediatric ward and out-patient clinic St. Mary’s Hospital, Catholic Medical College, during the period from Jan. 1966 to Aug. 1968. 1.The incidence of congenital syphilis in newborn infants who was delivered at our nursery (0.34%) in 1967, was more higher than the previous years. 2.Clinical... |
A 14 year-old-boy, who had W-P-W syndrome associated with cardiac enlargement and congestive heart failure was presented. His electrocardiographic pattern showed the high amplitude R waves in all chest leads with typical QRS slurring, delta waves and shortened P-R interval. Also auricular paroxysmal tachycardia was noted. On physical examination, loss of strength of the quadriceps tenderness of the calves, angular stomatitis,... |
This papaer presents the result of clinical study on 86 cases of infants and young children whom had been admitted at St. Mary’s Hospital with the episode of Acute Bronchiolitis from Jan. 1965 to April 1967.The 66 cases of them were male infants and the rest was female. The incidence of acute bronchiolitis was highest in the winter, spring and early summer months (from... |