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Clinical Analysis of Head and Neck Sarcoma (두경부에 발생한 육종의 임상적 고찰)

  • Park, Young-Min;Kim, Yu-Seok;Cho, Chang-Il;Kim, Hyun-Soo;Kim, Young-Hoon;Kim, Se-Heon
    • Korean Journal of Head & Neck Oncology
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2007
  • Introduction : Sarcoma of the head and neck region is a very rare disease entity. This retrospective study investigated the clinical characteristics of head and neck sarcomas and analyzed its treatment methods and outcomes. Subjects and Methods : Eighty-five patients who were diagnosed as sarcomas of the head and neck region in Shinchon Severance Hospital between 1985 and 2005 were included in the study. Data concerning age, sex, symptoms, location and size of tumor, histopathologic characteristics, treatment methods, recurrence, and distant metastasis were reviewed. Result : Overall 5 year survival rate was 38% and the 5 year survival rate in the pediatric population was 60%. The 5 year survival rates for each osteosarcoma and soft tissue sarcoma cases were 42% and 37% respectively. The 5 year survival rate was significantly higher in the cases where complete surgical resection was achieved. Conclusion : In managing head and neck sarcomas, it is important to perform wide resection and to achieve complete resection.

Combustion characteristics of rice-husk according to the change of heat flux (왕겨의 heat flux별 연소특성에 관한 연구)

  • Park Eun-young;Park Duckshin;Cho Youngmin;Park Byunghyun;Lee Cheulkyu
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1190-1195
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    • 2005
  • Biomass burning is a source of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Under the ideal conditions of complete combustion, the burning of biomass produces carbon dioxide and water vapor. Since complete combustion is not achieved under any conditions of biomass burning, other carbon species, including carbon monoxide, methane, non-methane hydrocarbons and particulate carbon are produced. In this study, we analyze the combustion characteristics of rice-husk, such as heat release rate, smoke production rate, the percentage variation of CO and $CO_2$, oxygen consumption rate, and mass loss under different heat fluxes (20, 50 and 70kW). As a result, at 20kW incomplete combustion is occurred so that the percentage of CO is high in initial burning and total smoke release is higher than the others. At 50kW and 70kW, the combustion behaviors is very similar except the variation of CO percentage.

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REPLANTATION OF COMPLETE AVULSED TEETH DUE TO TRAUMATIC INJURIES. : A CASE REPORT (완전 탈구된 치아의 재식에 대한 증례보고)

  • Cho, Woo-Sung;Lee, Jae-Ho;Choi, Byung-Jai;Shon, Heung-Kyu
    • Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.659-666
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    • 1996
  • The treatment of complete avulsed teeth due to traumatic injuries is replantation procedure. The major complication of replantation are pulp necrosis, ankylosis, and root resorption. It is important to maintain the vitality of periodontal ligament to minimize the complications. The purpose of this case report is to consider the facts that affect the success rate and the prognosis of complete avulsed teeth after replantation. All of these cases had different conditions and transport media. The following results were observed: 1. The successive treatment of complete ayulsed teeth requires the maintainance of vitality of periodontal ligament. 2. The complication of replantation are inflammatory root resorption and ankylosis and in such case, proper endodontic treatment using calcium hydroxide medications and periodic observations are needed. 3. In case of delayed replantation, the use of fluoride and root planning procedure can help to achieve better result. 4. It is more esthetic and functional to maintain the avulsed tooth in mouth.

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Corrective surgery of double outlet right ventricle: an analysis of 27 cases (양대동맥 우심실 기시증 [Double Outlet Right Ventricle] 의 전교정술 -27례 분석-)

  • 조재일
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.349-355
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    • 1983
  • Twenty-seven patients with double-outlet right ventricle underwent complete intracardiac repair between 1978 and 1983, June, at Seoul National University Hospital . Although definite aorto-mitral discontinuity was discovered in 20 patients, both great arteries arose wholly or mostly from the right ventricle in all cases. There were 17 cases with subaortic VSD, 6 with subpulmonic, 2 with doubly-committed, and 2 with non-committed VSD. Pulmonary stenosis was present in 21 patients. Intraventricular baffle repair was applied in 23 patients. Three patients required extracardiac conduit to establish continuity between right ventricle and pulmonary artery, and modified Fontan operation was performed in one patient. Over-all mortality rate was 37.0%, but recently 4 of 15 died [26.7%]. One late death occurred from infective endocarditis. Incremental risk factors were small patient size, subpulmonic or non-committed VSD, presence of PS, coronary artery anomalies, associated valvular lesion and other complicated anomalies. However, great artery relationship, restrictive VSD and transannular patch were not risk factors. No instances of complete heart block occurred. Of the survivors, all showed complete or in complete right bundle branch block and in one patient intermittent ventricular tachycardia had developed. The important cause of death was low cardiac output syndrome.

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Initial Clinical Experience with Cytoreductive Surgery and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy in Signet-Ring Cell Gastric Cancer with Peritoneal Metastase

  • Konigsrainer, Ingmar;Horvath, Philipp;Struller, Florian;Konigsrainer, Alfred;Beckert, Stefan
    • Journal of Gastric Cancer
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.117-122
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    • 2014
  • Purpose: Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) have been shown to improve survival in select patients with gastric cancer and peritoneal metastases. It remains unclear, however, whether this multimodal treatment protocol is also beneficial for signet-ring cell gastric cancer (SRC) patients with peritoneal metastases. Materials and Methods: Clinical data of patients scheduled for upfront systemic chemotherapy consisting of 5-FU (2,600 $mg/m^2$), folinic acid (200 $mg/m^2$), docetaxel (50 $mg/m^2$), and oxaliplatin (85 $mg/m^2$) followed by CRS and HIPEC using cisplatin (50 $mg/m^2$) at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, University Hospital T$\ddot{u}$bingen, Germany were retrospectively analyzed. Results: Eighteen consecutive patients for whom irresectability has been ruled out by a computed tomography scan were enrolled. However, complete cytoreduction could only be achieved in 72% of patients. When categorizing patients with respect to the completeness of cytoreduction, we found no difference between both groups considering tumor- or patient-related factors. The overall complication rate following complete cytoreduction and HIPEC was 46%. Within a median follow-up of 6.6 (0.5~31) months, the median survival for CRS and HIPEC patients was 8.9 months as opposed to 1.1 months for patients where complete cytoreduction could not be achieved. Following complete cytoreduction and HIPEC, progression-free survival was 6.2 months. Conclusions: In SRC with peritoneal metastases, the prognosis appears to remain poor irrespective of complete CRS and HIPEC. Moreover, complete cytoreduction could not be achieved in a considerable percentage of patients. In SRC, CRS and HIPEC should be restricted to highly selective patients in order to avoid exploratory laparotomy.

Survival Rate of Breast Cancer Patients In Malaysia: A Population-based Study

  • Abdullah, Nor Aini;Mahiyuddin, Wan Rozita Wan;Muhammad, Nor Asiah;Ali, Zainudin Mohamad;Ibrahim, Lailanor;Tamim, Nor Saleha Ibrahim;Mustafa, Amal Nasir;Kamaluddin, Muhammad Amir
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.8
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    • pp.4591-4594
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    • 2013
  • Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Malaysian women. Other than hospital-based results, there are no documented population-based survival rates of Malaysian women for breast cancers. This populationbased retrospective cohort study was therefore conducted. Data were obtained from Health Informatics Centre, Ministry of Health Malaysia, National Cancer Registry and National Registration Department for the period from $1^{st}$ January 2000 to $31^{st}$ December 2005. Cases were captured by ICD-10 and linked to death certificates to identify the status. Only complete data were analysed. Survival time was calculated from the estimated date of diagnosis to the date of death or date of loss to follow-up. Observed survival rates were estimated by Kaplan-Meier method using SPSS Statistical Software version 17. A total of 10,230 complete data sets were analysed. The mean age at diagnosis was 50.6 years old. The overall 5-year survival rate was 49% with median survival time of 68.1 months. Indian women had a higher survival rate of 54% compared to Chinese women (49%) and Malays (45%). The overall 5-year survival rate of breast cancer patient among Malaysian women was still low for the cohort of 2000 to 2005 as compared to survival rates in developed nations. Therefore, it is necessary to enhance the strategies for early detection and intervention.

The Solvolysis of Benzoyl Chloride in Water-Acetone Mixtures Under High Pressure

  • Jee, Jong-Gi;Ree, Taik-Yue
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.31-39
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    • 1987
  • By using a complete rate constant($k_e$) which treats a solvent (water) as a reactant, and a conventional rate constant($k_c$), which ignores the solvent in describing the rate, the parameters ${\Delta}V^{\neq}_s,\;{\Delta}H^{\neq}_s\;and\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}_s$ were introduced. These quantities represent the volume change, the enthalpy change, and the entropy change accompanying the electrostriction which occurs when solvent molecules condense on the activated complex. The authors measured the rates of the solvolysis of benzoyl chloride in water-acetone mixtures at $15^{\circ}$ to $30^{\circ}C$ and 1 bar to 2500 bars. Applying the authors' theory to the experimental results, the parameters, ${\Delta}V^{\neq}_s,\;{\Delta}H^{\neq}_s\;and\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}_s$ were evaluated, and it was found that they are all negative, indicating that water dipoles condense on the activated complex. They also proposed the following equations: ${\Delta}H^{\neq}_c\;=\;{\Delta}H^{\neq}_e\;+\;{\Delta}H^{\neq}_s\;and\; {\Delta}S^{\neq}_c\;=\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}_e\;+{\Delta}S^{\neq}_s\;,\;where\;{\Delta}H^{\neq}_c\;and\;{\Delta}H^{\neq}_c\;and\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}_s $are the activation enthalpy change and the activation entropy change for the conventional reaction rate, respectively, and ${\Delta}H^{\neq}_e$ and ${\Delta}S^{\neq}_e$ are the corresponding quantities for the complete reaction rate. The authors proposed that for the $SN_1$ type, all the quantities, ${\Delta}V^{\neq}_s,\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}_s\;,{\Delta}H^{\neq}_s\;and\;{\Delta}S^{\neq}_s$ are comparatively large, and for the $SN_2$ type, these quantities are smaller than for the $SN_1$ type, and occasionally the case ${\Delta}S^{\neq}_e$ < 0 occurs. Using these criteria, the authors concluded that at high temperature, high pressure and for a high water content solvent, the SN_1$ type mechanism predominates whereas in the reversed case the $SN_2$M type predominates.

Internal Mammary Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy after Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer

  • Bi, Zhao;Chen, Peng;Liu, Jingjing;Liu, Yanbing;Qiu, Pengfei;Yang, Qifeng;Zheng, Weizhen;Wang, Yongsheng
    • Journal of Breast Cancer
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.442-446
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    • 2018
  • Purpose: The definition of nodal pathologic complete response (pCR) after a neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) just included the evaluation of axillary lymph node (ALN) without internal mammary lymph node. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of internal mammary-sentinel lymph node biopsy (IM-SLNB) in patients with breast cancer who underwent NAC. Methods: From November 2011 to 2017, 179 patients with primary breast cancer who underwent operation after NAC were included in this study. All patients received radiotracer injection with modified injection technology. IM-SLNB would be performed on patients with internal mammary sentinel lymph node (IMSLN) visualization. Results: Among the 158 patients with cN+ disease, the rate of nodal pCR was 36.1% (57/158). Among the 179 patients, the visualization rate of IMSLN was 31.8% (57/179) and was 12.3% (7/57) and 87.7% (50/57) among those with $cN_0$ and cN+ disease, respectively. Furthermore, the detection rate of IMSLN was 31.3% (56/179). The success rate of IM-SLNB was 98.2% (56/57). The IMSLN metastasis rate was 7.1% (4/56), and all of them were accompanied by ALN metastasis. The number of positive ALNs in patients with IMSLN metastasis was 3, 6, 8, and 9. The pathology nodal stage had been changed from $pN_1/pN_2$ to $pN_{3b}$. The pathology stage had been changed from IIA/IIIA to IIIC. Conclusion: Patients with visualization of IMSLN should perform IM-SLNB after NAC, especially for patients with cN+ disease, in order to complete lymph nodal staging. IM-SLNB could further improve the definition of nodal pCR and guide the internal mammary node irradiation.

Patency Rate of Grafts after Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (관상동맥 우회수술후 이식혈관의 개존)

  • 노환규
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.42-48
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    • 1992
  • Clinical improvement after coronary artery bypass surgery depends on the complete revascularization and patency of graft vessels. Patency rate and the factors influencing the patency were studied by examining 134 grafts in 55 patients at a mean follow-up of 22.8$\pm$4.2 months, range 15 days and 108 months. Serial studies were performed on 7 patients with 18 grafts. The over-all patency rate was 80.6%, and the rate more than 5 years after surgery was 50.0% with mean interval of 81 months. Patency rate of patients who had taken both aspirin and dipyridamole was higher than of patients who had been treated with aspirin only[80.5% vs 56.5%]. The average serum triglyceride level of patients who had graft stenosis or occlusion in at least one site was significantly higher than that of patients in whom all grafts were patent[262.1mg% vs 174.8mg%]. Patency rate of grafts in patient who had angina was 73.2% and in patients without angina 79.2%. 6 patients underwent successful percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for narrowed or occluded grafts.

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Achievable Power Allocation Interval of Rate-lossless non-SIC NOMA for Asymmetric 2PAM

  • Chung, Kyuhyuk
    • International journal of advanced smart convergence
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2021
  • In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), complete implementations are dependent largely on the speed of the fifth generation (5G) networks. However, successive interference cancellation (SIC) in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) of the 5G mobile networks can be still decoding latency and receiver complexity in the conventional SIC NOMA scheme. Thus, in order to reduce latency and complexity of inherent SIC in conventional SIC NOMA schemes, we propose a rate-lossless non-SIC NOMA scheme. First, we derive the closed-form expression for the achievable data rate of the asymmetric 2PAM non-SIC NOMA, i.e., without SIC. Second, the exact achievable power allocation interval of this rate-lossless non-SIC NOMA scheme is also derived. Then it is shown that over the derived achievable power allocation interval of user-fairness, rate-lossless non-SIC NOMA can be implemented. As a result, the asymmetric 2PAM could be a promising modulation scheme for rate-lossless non-SIC NOMA of 5G networks, under user-fairness.