• Journal of the Korean Orthopaedic Association
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• v.56 no.2
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• pp.103-116
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• 2021

The use of 3-dimensional (3D) printing is becoming more common, and its use is increasing in the orthopedic surgery. Currently, there are four major methods of using 3D printing technology in orthopedic surgery. First, surgical planning simulation using 3D printing model; second, patient-specific surgical instruments; third, production of customized prosthesis using 3D printing technique; fourth, patient-specific prosthesis produced by 3D printing. The areas of orthopedic surgery where 3D printing technology can be used are shoulder joint, spine, hip and pelvis, knee joints, ankle joint, and tumors. Since the diseases and characteristics handled by each area are different, the method of using 3D printing technology is also slightly different in each area. However, using 3D printing technology in all areas can increase the efficiency of surgery, shorten the surgery time, and reduce radiation exposure intraoperatively. 3D printing technology can be of great help in treating patients with particularly complex and difficult orthopedic diseases or fractures. Therefore, the orthopedic surgeon should make the most of the benefits of the 3D printing technology so that patient can be treated effectively.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1127-1134
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• 2023

This study is a qualitative study to uncover the meaning and structure of nursing students' online psychiatric nursing practice experience by applying Parse's research method. The subjects of the study were 9 fourth-year nursing students at K University who took psychiatric nursing practice online in the COVID-19 situation. Data collection was conducted from March 7, 2022 to May 27, 2022. As a result of the study, the core concepts of nursing students' online practice experience in psychiatric nursing in the COVID-19 situation were: 'Recognizing the importance of understanding oneself and others', 'Preparing for communication to build therapeutic relationships', and 'A perspective on the future through exploration of the meaning of nursing'. Structural transposition was presented as 'Empathy for self and others', 'Mindset for interpersonal human relationship', 'Exploring the essence of nursing and self-realization'. Conceptual integration appeared as 'Valuing', 'Revealing-Concealing', 'Revealing-Concealing'. In conclusion, nursing students' online practice experience in mental health nursing in the COVID-19 situation was an experience of growing and transcending as future nurses by recognizing the importance of human understanding and communication for the therapeutic relationship that is the purpose of mental nursing. This study will serve as basic data for efficient clinical practice operations in various unpredictable situations, such as future pandemics.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.81 no.5
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• pp.1260-1265
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• 2020

Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a multicentric human immunodeficiency virus-associated neoplasm characterized by multiple vascular nodules in the skin, mucous membranes, and viscera. Gastrointestinal acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-related KS is the most common visceral involvement reported in disseminated disease. Here, we present the findings of a rare case of KS involving multiple organs with abdominal pain and active bleeding in the colon. Multiple intraluminal lesions were found in the terminal ileum, sigmoid colon, and rectum by ileocolonoscopy, and in the jejunum and ileum by fluoroscopy. Abdominopelvic CT revealed multiple enhanced flat lesions in the ileum and enlarged lymph nodes. The diagnosis was confirmed by histopathology, and antiretroviral therapy was initiated as the treatment of choice for KS. Owing to the increasing number of AIDS patients, it is essential for radiologists and clinicians to be aware of the imaging characteristics of KS to protect physicians from indiscriminate exposure to AIDS.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.326-334
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• 2024

Extra-oral imaging techniques such as Panoramic X-rays (PXs) and Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) are the most preferred imaging modalities in dental clinics owing to its patient convenience during imaging as well as their ability to visualize entire teeth information. PXs are preferred for routine clinical treatments and CBCTs for complex surgeries and implant treatments. However, PXs are limited by the lack of third dimensional spatial information whereas CBCTs inflict high radiation exposure to patient. When a PX is already available, it is beneficial to reconstruct the 3D oral structure from the PX to avoid further expenses and radiation dose. In this paper, we propose 3DentAI - an U-Net based deep learning framework for 3D reconstruction of oral structure from a PX image. Our framework consists of three module - a reconstruction module based on attention U-Net for estimating depth from a PX image, a realignment module for aligning the predicted flattened volume to the shape of jaw using a predefined focal trough and ray data, and lastly a refinement module based on 3D U-Net for interpolating the missing information to obtain a smooth representation of oral cavity. Synthetic PXs obtained from CBCT by ray tracing and rendering were used to train the networks without the need of paired PX and CBCT datasets. Our method, trained and tested on a diverse datasets of 600 patients, achieved superior performance to GAN-based models even with low computational complexity.

• Journal of agricultural medicine and community health
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.82-87
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• 1988

사람의 흡충류감염(吸蟲類感染)은 대부분(大部分) 열대(熟帶) 및 동부아세아지역(東部亞細亞地域) 여러 국가(國家)에서 발생(發生)한다. 주혈흡충증(住血吸蟲症), 간흡충증(肝吸蟲症), 태국간흡충증(泰國肝吸蟲症), 간흡충증(肝吸蟲症), 요꼬가와흡충증(吸蟲症), 이형이형흡충증(異型異型吸蟲症) 및 폐대흡충증(肺大吸蟲症)등은 어떤 일부(一部) 아세아국가(亞細亞國家)에 있어서 공중보건상(公衆保健上) 중요(重要)한 문제(間題)가 되어 있다. 이와 같은 패류매개성기생충감염(貝類媒介性寄生蟲感染)은 풍토병(風土病)을 일으키고 있다. 사람들의 생활습관은 풍토병을 일으키게될 원인이 될 뿐만 아니라 때로는 그 질병(疾病)을 유행(流行) 전파(傳播)시키는 기본적 요소가 되기도 한다. 주혈흡충을 제외한 흡충류감염은 우리가 중간숙주(中間宿主)을 먹었을때 그곳에 있었던 피낭유충(被囊幼蟲)에 의하여 감염이 이루어 진다. 식물(植物)의 생식(生殖)(간질(肝蛭), 폐대흡충(肺大吸蟲)), 게 및 가재 생식(폐흡충), 민물고기 생식(간흡충, 요꼬가와흡충, 이형이형흡충), 또는 우렁이 생식(극구흡충(棘口吸蟲)), 기타(몇가지 우연적감염(偶然的感染))등은 사람의 흡충류감염의 주 원인이 되는 것이다. 한편 주혈흡충 감염은 요염수원(汚染水源)에 접촉한 피부을 뚫고 들어온 쎌카리아 유충(幼蟲)에 노출되기 때문에 일어난다. 흡충류감염에 대하여 예방과 방어에 관한 공중보건학적 조치는 많다. 이들의 조치중에는 화학요법에 의한 감염원을 감소시키는 것, 패류숙주의 박멸, 만족할만한 위생시설의 비치, 급수시설, 보건교육, 진단기술의 보급, 환경관리 및 개선 등이 포함된다. 그러나 감염자들에 대한 화학요법은 가장 빠르고 효과적인 억제방법인 것으로 나타나고 있다. 흡충류감염을 예방하는데 있어서 가장 중요한 변화는 프라지콴텔과 같은 신약의 개발이었다. 프라지콴텔은 모든 종류의 주혈흡충, 간흡충, 폐흡충 및 여러가지 장내기생 흡충류등 사람의 병원성흡충류에 대한 치료제로서 가장 좋은 특효약이다. 흡충류감염이 중요한 보건문제가 되어 있는 곳에서는 그 예방과 억제책에 있어서 장단기계획(長短期計劃)을 수립하는 것이 좋을 것 같다. 단기는 집단화학요법을 조기에 실시하여야 하고 자기는 "비특이성 기구"로써, 예를들면 위생시설 및 급수시설의 설치, 보건교육등으로 감염을 감소시켜 감염유지 수준이하로 보지(保持)시키는 것이다. 이와같은 억제조치를 착실히 수행하기 위하여 많은일이 있다. 예를 들면 집단참여, 역학적 조사, 약물의 공급, 환경관리, 보건교육, 지역사회관련, 일차보건 진료와의 협조 및 재정후원등에 대하여 검토하고 연구하여야 할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.38-46
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• 2002

Disaster psychiatry is a new emerging area of psychiatry, in which psychiatrists help to minimize psychological impact of a disaster and to reduce secondary morbidities. In our society, more children and adolescents are facing disasters nowadays. Thus, the necessity for the disaster psychiatry is increasing. After a trauma, children express various symptoms in relevance to their age, development, and their environmental support. The recovery from the disaster and its long-term effect are also influenced by those factors. Psychiatric intervention in a disaster consists mainly of crises intervention and supportive psychotherapy, which includes counseling the victims, educating and providing information to the public, providing support and consultation to the community, and referring of at-risk or severely impaired individuals for more intensive clinical evaluation and care. In addition to a summarized concept of disaster psychiatry, this article presents the adverse psychological effects of children and adolescents exposed to disaster and issues related to the psychiatric intervention.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.569-584
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• 2000

In order to evaluate the effects of the early exposure of e-PTFE membrane on the periodontal regeneration, 21 cases of 21 patients diagnosed as the chronic adult periodontitis were evaluated. All were class II furcation involvement cases. The control group was composed of 7 cases treated only by the flap operation. 14 cases were treated by the e-PTFE membrane as the experimental group, the membranes of 7 cases were exposed more than 1mm during healing period, which were named as the experimental group I, and the others, experimental group II. Clinical parameters such as probing pocket depth, clinical attachment level, bone probing depth, and gingival recession were recorded before the treatment and 6 months after the treatment. The results were as follows. 1. Significant probing depth reductions were observed for all groups(p<0.05), but no group shows significantly greater reductions than another. 2. Significant clinical attachment gains were observed for the experimental group II(p<0.05), no significant gains were observed in the other groups. 3. Significant bone probing depth reductions were observed for the experimental group II(p<0.05), no significant reductions were observed in the other groups. 4. All but the experimental group II exhibited a significant increase in gingival recession(p<0.05). The result suggested that is case of the e-PTFE membrane is exposed, the result is similar to that of flap operation without membrane. Therefore selecting the proper treatment case, intricate surgical procedure and infection control are essential for minimizing the chance of membrane exposure and finally for the good treatment results.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.98-104
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• 2013

Dengue fever is an important health problem for international travelers to all endemic areas. The steadily increasing numbers of tourists visiting endemic areas raise the risk of exposure, and imported dengue cases are increasingly observed in nonendemic area. Dengue has a wide spectrum of clinical presentations, often with unpredictable clinical evolution and outcome. While most patients recover following a self-limiting, non-severe clinical course, a small proportion progress to severe disease such as dengue hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome. Therefore, it is important to suspect dengue fever in every febrile patient returning from the tropics. Whenever it is suspected, a quick diagnosis and adequate managements are essential to avoid complications. We report two cases of imported dengue fever in Korean children presenting with fever, headache, nausea, and rash.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.13 no.7
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• pp.941-946
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• 2019

Computed tomography (CT) has been increasing in frequency and indications for use in clinical diagnosis and treatment decisions. Multidetector CT has the advantage of shortening the inspection time and obtaining a high resolution image compared to a single detector CT, but has been pointed out the disadvantage of increasing the radiation exposure. In addition, when the low tube voltage is used to reduce the exposure dose in the CT, noise increases relatively. In the existing method, the method of finding the optimal image quality using the method of adjusting the parameters of the image reconstruction method is not a fundamental measure. In this study, we applied a double-tree complex wavelet algorithm and analyzed the results to maintain the normal signal and remove only noise. Experimental results show that the noise is reduced from 8.53 to 4.51 when using a complex oriented 2D method with 100kVp and 0.5sec rotation time. Through this study, it was possible to remove the noise and reduce the patient dose by using the optimal noise reduction algorithm. The results of this study can be used to reduce the exposure of patients due to the low dose of CT.

• Design & Manufacturing
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.1-6
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• 2020

Recently, research and commercialization related to the field of cell-based therapeutic drug development has been actively conducted. In order to maintain cell viability and prevent contamination, refrigeration preservation devices, such as CRF (controlled rate freezer) or vapor type LN2 tanks have been developed. On the other hand, the storage container for liquid nitrogen tanks currently on sale minimizes the flow structure to prevent structural defects when stored in a liquid nitrogen tank having a high thermal conductivity than vapor nitrogen. If the cell-based treatment drug is stored in the gaseous LN2 tank as it is, the cell survival after thawing is greatly reduced. It was estimated that the existing storage container structure was a factor that prevented the rapid entry and circulation of gaseous nitrogen into the container. Therefore, this study intends to propose a new supercellular storage container model that can maintain the mechanical strength while maximizing the fluid flow structure. To this end, we estimated that the structural change of the storage container effects on the equivalent stress formed around the through-holes of them when exposed to a cryogenic environment using thermal-structural coupled field analysis. As a result of storage experiments in the gas phase tank of the cell-based therapeutic agent using the developed storage container, it was confirmed that the cell growth rate was improved from 66% to 77%, which satisfied the transportation standards of the FDA(Food and Drug Administration) cell-based therapeutic agent.