Mass electrocardiographic examination was performed on 5,066 children of elementary school in Taegu from Nov. 1. 1985 to Apr. 30. 1986. Among them 30 children had abnormal ECG. We could investigate further on 26 children. The results were as following; The incidence of ECG abnormality was 0.59% (male 0.57%, female 0.62%) initially, on follow-up examination, only 0.39% showed persistent abnormal ECG. The kinds of ECG abnormality... |
A review was made on the clinical, hematological and cytogenetical findings of 68 children diagnosed as leukemia at Pediatric Department, Kwangju Christian Hospital, during a period of 10 years from Jan. 1975 to Dec. 1985. The results were as follows: 1) The sex ratio of 68 children diagnosed as Leukemia was 1:1. The most common age group was 11-12 year(19.1%), followed by the group of 3-4... |
We obtained following results by analysis of 12 cases of thyroid carcinoma in patient under 15 years of age who were admitted to Presbyterian Medical Center, Chon-ju from January 1975 to December 1984. 1) The ratio between male and female patients was 1 : 3. Patients over 12 years of age totalled 7 cases(58.3%). The youngest patient was 5 years and... |
We analyzed clinical findings, pathological findings and clinico-pathological correlations in 55 children with idiopathic IgA nephropathy confirmed immunopathologically, and the results were as follows; 1) The mean age at onset was 9.65±2.45 years with relatively even distribution in school ages and males outnumbered females by 1.75 : 1. 2) The main mode of presentation was typical... |
We conducted HBsAg, HBsAb and HBcAb determinations by the method of radioimmunoassay on 329 healthy children who visited for the purpose of immunization with HB vaccine, or had been admitted because of miscellaneous diseases except for liver disease from July 1984 to December 1984. The following results were obtained; 1) Among the 329 children, 16(4.9%) were positive for HBsAg. There was... |
We analyzed data on children with chronic renal failure collected from 36 pediatric training hospitals during the period from Jan. 1, 1980 to Dec. 31, 1984. The following results were obtained: 1) Total number of children with chronic renal failure during the study period was 135. The incidence was about 1 per 2,000 in-patients and 2.09 per million children under 15... |
We have experienced a case of primary lung cancer (squamous cell ca.) in a 15 years-old boy who presented with productive coughing and mild fever. The diagnosis was made through thoracic roentgenogram, thoracotomy, and biopsy. A brief review of the related literature is given. |
During a period of IOV12 years, from April, 1974 to July, 1984, 92 cases under 15 years of age with isolated patent ductus arteriosus were observed and evaluated pre- and postoperatively at pediatric department, Hanyang University Hospital, and those were confirmed by cardiac catheterization and/or surgery. The summary of observation made is as follows: 1)The sex ratio of male to female... |
Most of the lipids in serum are transported in the from of lipoproteins. A major portion of these lipoproteins is formed in the liver. The determination of serum lipoprotein patterns is a better index of liver abnormalities than determination of lipids alone. The authors determined serum lipid concentration and the patterns of serum lipoproteins in 40 cases of acute viral... |
From 1983 to June 1984, Obesity survey among school children aged 6 to 12 years(8,260 boys and 7,645 girls) was done. The results were as follows; 1)Based on a weight-for-age definition of obesity(97 th percentile), 0.92% of boys and 0.85% of girls were considered to be obese. 2)Based on a weight-for-age definition of besity (97th. percentile), the highest incidence was... |
A retrospective study of 234 children with hypertension was done. Those children were selected from the admitted patients to the pediatric ward of SNUH, from Jan. 1 st, 1972 to June 30 th, 1984. Among them, 144(61.5%) exhibited renal diseases, 17(7.3%) endocrine diseases, 15(6.4%) renovascular diseases, 12(5.1%) cardiovascular diseases, 3(1.3%) esstential hypertension, 8(3.5%) miscellaneous casuses. The most common cause among... |
Among total 452 children with percutaneous kidney needle biopsy due to renal disease in the Department of Pediatric, Seoul National University Hospital, from Jan. 75 to Nov.84, 20(4.4%) were confirmed as embranoproliferative glomerulonephritis(MPGN) histopathologically. And 4 out of these 20 were excluded from this report because of association of systemic disease. A review of clinical and pathological findings of the... |
One hundred and ninety four patients who were admitted with the chief complaint of abdominal mass were reviewed. The result were as follows; 1) The common abdominal masses in infants and children were neuroblastoma, Wilms tumor, germ cell tumor, hydronephrosis and hepatoblastoma in decreasing order of frequency. Malignant tumors were 114 cases and benign tumors were 69 cases. 2) The male:female ratio was 110 : 84. In... |
To evaluate the effects of acute starvation on blood constituents, serum amylase activity and levels of serum urea nitrogen (BUN) and protein fractions were measured in 336 normal children and 60 children acutely starved as a result of encsphalitis. The mean starvation period was 4 days. Hypoalbuminemic children were also examined. The tests revealed that starvation resulted in a significant reduction in serum amylase... |
From June 1974 to June 1983, 106 cases of child epileptic patients were clinically investigated at the Department of Pediatrics, Chosun University Hospital, and the following results were obtained. 1)Epilepsy had the highest incidence in children from 5 to 9 years (32.1%), and the next was from 9 to 16 years (21.7%). 2)Male to female ratio was 1.3 : 1.... |
This study was conducted to study the importance of infectious diseases in Korea by computing the records of ambulatory and hospitalized patients at two university hospitals. Infectious diseases were 74.7% and non-infectious diseases were 25.3% at Severance Hospital, while infectious diseases were 82.7% and non-fectious diseases were 17.3% at the Wonju Christian Hospital. Among the infectious diseases, viral infecitons were... |
This paper presented a case of primary lung cancer (squamous cell ca) in children, found a 12 years old boy. This patient was presented chief complaints of respiratory difficulty, procuctive cough and high fever. Diagnosis of lung cancer was made thuough bronchoschopic biopsy of bronchus with sputum cytology. We thought this is unusual case and we reviewed literatures and could not find the... |
Forty five cases of dilated cardiomyopathy who were admitted, to Seoul National University Hospital from June, 1980 to May, 1983 were studied on the clinical features and laboratory findings. 1) Twenty two cases (44.4%) were primary dilated cardiomyopathy, and the other 25 case (55.6%) were secondary. Nineteen cas&s(95.0%) of primary dilated cardiomyopathy were diagnosed within 3 year of age, but sacondary dilated cardiomyopathy did... |
The following results were obtained through the clinical review of 24 cases with the intes- tinal tuberculosis under the age of 15 years which were treated at Seoul National University hospital and Kangnam General Hospital Public Corporation during the period of 6 years from January, 1977 to December, 1982. 1) The peak incidence was noted in the group aged 12 〜 15 years. The ratio... |
The is the report of clinical observations on 132 cases of pyothorax in children under the age of 15 years which were admitted to the Pediatric Department, Keimyung University, School of Medicine during the period of 16 years from Jan. 1966 through Dec. 1981. The following results are obtained.The incidence has tendency of increasing for recent 3 years and 61.3% of cases has... |
biopsy or bone marrow biopsy at Busan National University Hospital from 1970 to 1980. The following results were obtained; 1. The requested cases for biopsy were increased annually, but the numbers and discovery- rate of malignant and benign tumors were not increased significantly. 2. The numbers of malignant tumor after 6years of age were higher than under 6years of age, but discovery rate of Clinicostatistical syudy was... |
Ths physical features characteristic of Down Syndrome in Korean children were analyzed in 81 patients confirmed by cytogenetic examination in the Department of Pediatrics, Kwangju Christian Hospital, during the period from March, 1974 through July, 1981, and results are- summarized as follows: 1) The sex ratio was 2 males to one female. 2) The frequency of most stigmata found among Down cases were signifi cantly higher than, among... |
A Clinical study was made of 88 pediatric patients with miliary tuberculosis, who were admitted to the Pediatric Department of Kwangju Christian Hospital during the period of January, 1971 through December, 1980. 1) The incidence of miliary tuberculosis in children was 0.6%(88 cases) of the total pediatric admission cases(13969), and 12.5% (88 cases) of the total pediatric tuberculous patiens(705). 2)... |
A study was made to see the family back ground abandonment of mother's right, clinical and laboratory examination(urinalysis, blood examination, tuberculous skin test, VDRL, PKU screening test and chest X-ray) on 1,793 infants and children in an institure for foreign adoption. The results were as follows: 1) Gilrs were much more predominant than boys with male to female ratio of... |
This paper present 105 cases which were admitted to the Department of Pediatrics of Dong San Presbyterian Hospital from Jan. 1978 to July, 1980 The results are summarized as follows; 1) Age incidence, 94% of patients were under age of two, 88.2% of patients were under one year, and adults were high incidence in Korea. 2) Male to female ratio... |
This study was undertaken on 120 healthy primary school children (male 60, female 60), who live in a fishing village, Geo-Mun island, Chulla-Namdo, in order to investigate normal value of red blood cell. Ages of the children were ranged from six years to twelve years. The author cheked the number of red blood cell, hemoglobin level, hematcrit, mean corpuscular volume(MCV),... |
We studied clinically 109 caseu of typhoid fever in children, who were hospitalized in the Department of Pediatrics, Hanyang University Hospital for 5 years from January 1975 to December 1979. The results are as follows: 1) There were no specific differences have been noted in the annual incidence. 2) The highest incidence was noted in the summer season, which comprised... |
Intussusception is the invagination of a portion of the intestine into itself and one of the most important surgical emergency in infancy and early childhood. The etiology of mosts recurrent intussusception is unknown. Therefore, it is very difficult to identify the cause. Very few studies and references on recurrent intussusception were reported in Korea. Authors had been studied and analized... |
A total 147 cases of malignant tumors in children under 15 years of age who admitted Presbyterian Medical Center, Keimyung University for 6 years from Jan. 1973 to Dec. 1978 were analyzed clinically and the following results were obtained. 1) The incidence of malignancies on all admitted cases was 1.7% and the annual incidence was 1.4~2.0% without any annual increase... |
The following results were obtained through the screening survey to detect the prevalence of hematuria & proteinuria in the healthy Korean schoolchildren. A total of 2,888 primary schoolchildren in Seoul, examined to be healthy by the author were tested for hematuria and proteinuria during the period of 3 months from Apr. 1979 to June 1979. Hemacombistix of Ames Company, U.S.A.... |
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