• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.389-391
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 초음파 검사자가 효율적으로 충수염을 진단할 수 있도록 하기 위하여 초음파 영상에서 충수를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 충수를 추출하는 과정은 초음파 영상에서 Ends_in Search Stretching 기법을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조하고, Max-Min 이진화, 영역 레이블링, 잡음 제거, Cubic Spline 보간법을 적용하여 복부 근육의 하단 근막 부분을 추출한다. 초음파 영상에서 추출된 근막 영역을 제거한 후, K-Means 클러스터링과 영역 레이블링을 적용하여 충수 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 초음파 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 충수염을 진단하기에 적합한 충수 영역이 추출되는 것을 영상의학과 전문의를 통하여 확인하였다.

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.68-71
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• 2008

Septic encephalopathy is defined as brain dysfunction secondary to sepsis. It occurs in septic patients as a manifestation of multi-organ dysfunction. Without evidence of intracranial infection, various extracranial infections causing severe sepsis may induce septic encephalopathy. We report a patient with septic encephalopathy complicating acute appendicitis. Initially, the patient presented with impaired mental state and raised liver enzymes.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.77-81
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• 2003

Diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic syndrome is rarely accompanied by complications requiring surgical intervention. We report a case of the diarrhea-associated hemolytic uremic sydrome which developed simultaneously with an acute appendicitis.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.227-234
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• 2011

In this study, we propose order selection methods based on scaled lift. This study is proposed to overcome the problem that the lift used by Park and Kim (2010) takes unbounded values and thus it is hard to know how big (or small) lift value is big (or small). The first scaled lift just scales lift, so that it takes values between 0 and 1, and the second scaled lift scales lift-1, so that it takes values between -1 and 1. In other words, the first method scales lift only and the second methods ceters and scales lift. We apply order selection methods based on scaled lift to acute appendicitis patients in emergency room and compare them with the results based on lift.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.427-435
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• 2010

In this study, we develop clinical pathways for test and medical treatment items of acute appendicitis patients in emergency room. In order to develop the clinical pathways, we first employ the order selection method by Park et al. (2010), and then display the selected orders in such a way that associated orders are tied together. More specifically the order selection method that we employ is based on lift and, starting from the orders with higher frequencies, sequentially removes the negatively associated orders with lift values less than 0.9. The way associated orders are selected and tied together is similar to that of the order selection method. More specifically, starting from the selected orders with higher frequencies, the orders with lift values greater than 1.1 are considered associated and displayed to the right of the corresponding order. Therefore, in the diagram of clinical pathways, the orders at the left hand side, in principle, are not associated with each other and upper orders have higher frequencies, and associated orders are located to the right of corresponding order at the left hand side and more left orders, in principle, have higher frequencies.

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.10a
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• pp.369-369
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• 2005

• Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.170-175
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• 2018

Actinomyces are anaerobic, Gram-positive bacteria that are part of the endogenous flora of mucous membranes in humans. Infection caused by these bacteria is termed actinomycosis. The 3 most common types of actinomycosis are cervicofacial, abdominopelvic, and pulmonary. A previously healthy 6-year-old boy presented with the emergency room with fever, vomiting, and abdominal pain and initially diagnosed with acute appendicitis. Exploratory laparoscopy was done. Histologic finding demonstrated acute gangrenous appendicitis complicated by perforation and sulfur granules compatible with actinomycosis. Subsequently, he was diagnosed with abdominal actinomycosis and received long-term antibiotic therapy. Abdominal actinomycosis is uncommon in children and difficult to diagnose because of its nonspecific symptoms and of difficulties in growing Actinomyces in the clinical setting. It is necessary to include abdominal actinomycosis as a differential diagnosis of children presenting with abdominal pain.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.83-88
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• 2012

Acute appendicitis is very rare in premature neonates. Preoperative diagnosis of this condition is difficult, and then it leads to high morbidity and mortality. We report 9-day-old premature male with ruptured acute appendicitis presented with pneumoperitoneum on plain films of the abdomen. Awareness of this rare condition and possible differential diagnosis in this age group is also discussed.

• 대한예방의학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.385-385
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• 2002

• Journal of Sasang Constitution and Immune Medicine
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.164-169
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• 2003

Appendicitis of pregnancy woman is appeared one of every 1000. This is the most common disease that needs operation except for uterus related diseases. This case is about a woman patient who is 10week pregnancy. She had lower abdominal pain and her case was diagnosed as appendicitis in general hospital. For fear of antibiotics, she went to our hospital. We diagnosed her as soeumin. We treated her with Soeumin Gwaghyangjunggisan for 1 week. We also experienced good effect of Soeumin Gwaghyangjunggisan to appendicitis of pregnancy woman. So we report it.