• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.295-310
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• 2013

Industry- or regulatory-sponsored research activities on the resolution of Generic Safety Issue (GSI)-191 were reviewed, especially on the chemical effects. Potential chemical effects on the head loss across the debris-loaded sump strainer under a post-accident condition were experimentally evidenced by small-scale bench tests, integrated chemical effects test (ICET), and vertical loop head loss tests. Three main chemical precipitates were identified by WCAP-16530-NP: calcium phosphate, aluminum oxyhydroxide, and sodium aluminum silicate. The former two precipitates were also identified as major chemical precipitates by the ICETs. The assumption that all released calcium would form precipitates is reasonable. CalSil insulation needs to be minimized especially in a plant using trisodium phosphate buffer. The assumption that all released aluminum would form precipitates appears highly conservative because ICETs and other studies suggest substantial solubility of aluminum at high temperature and inhibition of aluminum corrosion by silicate or phosphate. The industry-proposed chemical surrogates are quite effective in increasing the head loss across the debris-loaded bed and more effective than the prototypical aluminum hydroxide precipitates generated by in-situ aluminum corrosion. There appears to be some unresolved potential issues related to GSI-191 chemical effects as identified in NUREG/CR-6988. The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, however, concluded that the implications of these issues are either not generically significant or are appropriately addressed, although several issues associated with downstream in-vessel effects remain.

• 한국동물위생학회지
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.497-501
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• 2006

Acute hemorrhagic enteritis was diagnosed in a seven-month-old male Shitzu dog dying of blood stained diarrhea and vomiting. Clinical findings were anorexia, dullness and sudden death after massive bloody diarrhea. At necropsy, main lesion was the hemorrhage in small intestine, mainly duodenum and jejunum. Microscopically, Gram positive long bacilli were massively detected on the mucose epithelial cells and necrotic debris of small intestine. Coagulative necrosis of epithelial cells and thrombosis of small intestine were also identified. However, there was no lesion of crypt epithelium. Mineral infiltration in both gastric mucosa and renal tubules was detected and proliferation of fibrous tissue was also shown in corticomedullary regions. In bacterial examination, C perfringens was isolated in anaerobic culture and it was confirmed to type A by multiplex PCR. Therefore, the dog was diagnosed as C perfringens type A associated enteritis with uremia.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.471-477
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• 2001

Failure to use effective methods of reduction, fixation, and immobilization may lead to nonunion with osteomyelitis, owing to the compound nature of most fractures of the mandible. Nonunion results in fibrous pseudoarthrosis at the fracture site with instability that, once formed, does not improve spontaneously. Once the nonunion with osteomyelitis secondary to fractures has become established, intermaxillary fixation and drainage of infected tissue should be instituted as early as possible, because the fixation & drainage enhances the patient comfort and hinders ingress of microorganisms & debris by movement of bone fragments. The authors treated three cases of nonunion with osteomyelitis by intermaxillary fixation, incision & persistent drainage on the previous fistula site and endodontic drainage of infected teeth in the fracture site of mandible. The localization & sequestration of the infected bone around the fracture was better performed persistently by natural homeostatic mechanism in $8{\sim}10$ weeks and the bony union was then attained without bone grafting.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.305-315
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• 1998

흰쥐에 있어서 가령에 따라 하악과두에 가해지는 기계적 부하의 변화에 따라 하악과두 섬유층의 미세구조적 변화를 관찰, 분석한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 하악과두 섬유층의 세포는 생후 초기에는 미분화간엽세포 및 섬유모세포로 구성되어 있었다. 가령에 따라 생후 14일, 27일군 등에서는 생후 초기에 비해 교원원섬유를 활발하게 합성, 분비하는 것으로 생각되는 섬유모세포가 발달하였는데 이들 세포는 과립형 물질로 채워져 있는 내강이 대단히 확장되어 있으며, 리보솜이 치밀하게 존재하는 과립세포질세망과 골지장치가 발달되어 있었다. 또한 이들 세포내에는 세포소기관 사이에 세사가 점차로 발달하는 양상을 보였다. 생후 55일군 이후에서는, 가늘고 긴 세포돌기를 가지며, 과립세포질세망 및 골지장치가 발달되어 있어 교원섬유의 합성이 왕성한 것으로 추측되는 세포, 약간 둥글거나 다각형의 모양을 보이며, 세포질내에 사립체, 용해소체 및 골지장치가 발달하였으며, 손상된 교원섬유 혹은 변성된 세포의 흡수에 관여하는 것으로 추측되는 세포, 세포질의 상당부분이 세사로 채워져 있으며, 사립체, 용해소체 및 과립세포질내세망과 같은 세포질내 소기관은 잘 발달되어 있지 않아 가해진 기계적 자극에 대해 적응하였거나 활동이 정지된 세포 등 3종류의 세포가 관찰되었다. 세포간질의 교원원섬유는 생후 초기부터 가령에 따라 점차로 치밀하게 배열되는 양상을 보였다. 교원원섬유의 직경은 생후 1일, 7일군에서는 $38.48{\pm}3.81nm$, $38.06{\pm}3.86nm$로서 유사하였으나 생후 14일군에서는 $50.21{\pm}3.93nm$로 가장 굵은 양상을 보였으며(p<0.05), 그후 생후 27일, 55일군에서는 각기 $40.05{\pm}2.52nm$, $43.63{\pm}1.20nm$로서 점차로 가늘어져 생후 1년군에서는 $37.38{\pm}2.17nm$로서 가장 가늘어 졌다(p<0.05). 그 분포에 있어서는 생후 초기에는 직경이 30-60인 교원원섬유가 대다수를 차지하는 unimordal한 분포를 보였으나, 생후 27일 이후에는 직경이 작은 교원원섬유가 점차로 증가하는 양상을 보였다. 이상의 가령에 따른 결과로 미루어보아 하악과두 섬유층의 미세구조, 교원원섬유의 배열 및 직경의 분포에서의 변화는 가해지는 기계적 부하에 대한 적응한 결과라고 생각된다.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제31권6호
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• pp.544-549
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• 2009

Failure to use effective methods of reduction, fixation and immobilization may lead to osteomyelitis with the exposed necrotic bone, as the overzealous use of transosseous wires & plates that devascularizes bone segments in the compound comminuted fractures of mandible. Once osteomyelitis secondary to fractures has become established, intermaxillary fixation should be instituted as early as possible. Fixation enhances patient comfort and hinders ingress of microorganisms and debris by movement of bone fragments. Teeth and foreign materials that are in the line of fracture should be removed and initial debridement performed at the earliest possible time. Grossly necrotic bone should be excised as early as possible ; no attempt should be made to create soft tissue flaps to achieve closure over exposed bone. The key to treatment of chronic osteomyelitis of the mandible is adequate and prolonged soft tissue drainage. If good soft tissue drainage is provided over a long period, sequestration of infected bone followed by regeneration or fibrous tissue replacement will occur so that appearance and function are not seriously altered. Localization and sequestration of infected mandible are far better performed by natural mechanism of homeostasis than by cutting across involved bone with a cosmetic or functional defect. As natural host defenses and conservative therapy begin to be effective, the process may become chronic, inflammation regresses, granulation tissue is formed, and new blood vessels cause lysis of bone, thus separating fragments of necrotic bone(sequestra) from viable bone. The sequestra may be isolated by a bed of granulation tissue, encased in a sheath of new bone(involucrum), and removed easily with pincettes. This is a case report of the long-term conservative drainage care in osteomyelitis associated with mandibular fractures.