• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.109-116
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• 2012

This study was performed to evaluate the effects of intradermal acupuncture on patients with pain. Three patients suffered from shoulder pain, low back pain, and wrist pain. Each were treated with intradermal acupuncture and outcomes were measured by McGill pain questionnaire-short form, visual analongue scale and pain rating score. After intradermal acupuncture treatments, we found recovery from three patients who suffered from pain. Through this study, we suggest that intradermal acupuncture treatment is effective to cure patients with pain. Futher on, well-designed, controlled studies and more cases are needed to define the effect of intradermal acupuncture for patients with pain.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.182-188
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• 2021

We report on 4 patients suffering from acute neck pain and limited range of motion (ROM) in the cervical spine who were treated with intradermal acupuncture. The treatment effect was evaluated with numeric rating scale (NRS), ROM, and Neck Disability Index (NDI). After treatment, the NRS and NDI scores decreased and the ROM of the cervical spine increased in all patients. This report shows that intradermal acupuncture treatment can be effective for patients with acute neck pain with limited ROM. However, further controlled studies are needed to confirm the effect of intradermal acupuncture on such patients.

• The Journal of Korean Medicine Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology and Dermatology
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• v.33 no.2
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• pp.12-22
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• 2020

Objectives : The aim of this study is to review the trend of clinical trials conducted with the intradermal acupuncture treatment on dry eye syndrome. Methods : Through 4 foreign online databases(PubMed, Cochrane Library, EMBASE, and CNKI) and 3 domestic online databases(NDSL, RISS, and OASIS), we searched for clinical studies performed acupuncture treatment for dry eye syndrome from 2000 to 2020. Only randomized controlled trials(RCT) were selected and analyzed with the research method. Results : A total of 4 studies were reviewed. Cuanzu(攢竹, BL2), Taiyang(太陽, EX-HN5), and Sibai(四白, ST2) were the most frequently used acupoints in the studies. Among the evaluation indexes, Schirmer I test(SIT), tear film break-up time(BUT) were the most frequently used outcomes. In the most of the 4 studies, intradermal acupuncture treatment showed significant therapeutic effects for dry eye syndrome. Conclusions : These results suggest that it is necessary to develop more detailed standards for intradermal acupuncture treatment method as the method of intradermal acupuncture is getting more diverse, and objective tools are needed to evaluating dry eye syndrome.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.41-49
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• 1972

The author observed the thyroid $^{131}I$ uptake rate using an intradermal injection method. The amount of activity remaining at the site of intradermal injection of 0.1 ml. of $5{\mu}Ci.\;of\;^{131}I$ in physiologic saline was measured in 79 cases of hyperthyroidism and in 24 cases of hypothyroidism. The cases had been confirmed by clinical and laboratory findings, at the department of medicine, (radioisotope clinic) Pusan National University Hospital. Twenty-nine normal control cases were examined currently by the same technique during the period from Jan. 1967 to June 1970. The following results were obtained: 1. In the normal group, the ranges and mean values of the thyroid uptake 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 60 minutes after intradermal $^{131}I$ injection, were $0{\sim}10%(6.33{\pm}1.63),\;0{\sim}15%(7.83{\pm}2.12),\;0{\sim}15%(8.46{\pm}2.82),\;5.1{\sim}20%(9.66{\pm}2.27),\;5.1{\sim}25%(10.47{\pm}2.52),\;5.1{\sim}30%(13.03{\pm}4.42)$. 2. In the hyperthyroid group, the ranges and mean values of the thyroid uptake 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 60 minutes after intradermal $^{131}I$ injection were $5.1{\sim}45%(22.25{\pm}7.04),\;10.1{\sim}50%(28.32{\pm}6.67),\;15.1{\sim}55%(34.78{\pm}11.63),\;15.1{\sim}65%(37.95{\pm}7.72),\;20.1{\sim}65%(41.49{\pm}0.05)\;and\;20.18096(48.71{\pm}12.51)$. 3. In the hypothyroid group, he ranges of thyroid $^{131}I$ uptake by intradermal $^{131}I$ injection at 10, 15, 20, 25, 30 and 60 minutes lay between 0 and 10%, and the the mean values were $4.23{\pm}1.76,\;5.08{\pm}1.68,\;5.56{\pm}1.70,\;6.02{\pm}1.75,\;6.37{\pm}1.91\;and\;6.95{\pm}2.07$. 4. In conclusion, thyroid function test using an intradermal injection method in cases of hyperthyroidism, showed characteristic values which seemed to be of diagnostic significance.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.557-563
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• 2001

A field survey of fascioliasis of Korean native cattle raising and raised in specialized commercial breeding farms and local farms in Kangwon province using both intradermal test and sedimentation technique for feces was carried out from November to December, 1996. Fecal samples were taken from fascioliasis positive cattle by the intradermal test for the fecal examination. Liver tissues were randomly collected from an abattoir for histopathological examination of liver fluke infection in cattle. The results are as follows. 1. By the intradermal test for a total of 211 cattle raising in both Wonju and Wheongsung, Kangwon province, 60 heads(28.4%) showed positive reaction. Among 60 positive cattle, eggs of Fasciola hepatica were found from 51 heads(85.0%) by sedimentation technique. 2. According to the cattle raising areas, the positive rates by the intradermal test were 26.7%(20 out of 75 heads) in Wonju and 29.4%(40 out of 136 heads) in Wheongsung. 3. According to the age of cattle examined, the positive rates by the intradermal test in 1~3, 4~6 and 7~10 years old were 11.7%(7 out of 100 heads), 68.3%(41 out of 93 heads) and 20.0%(12 out of 18 heads), respectively. 4. The overall infection rates of fluke larvae from the slaughtered cattle at an abattoir in Wonju was 24.7%(37 out of 150 heads). In histopathology, liver lesions were observed such as inflammation with infiltration of eosinophils, polymorphonuclear cells, mononuclear cells and multinucleated giant cells, proliferation of connective tissues, calcification and abscess formation.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.155-165
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• 2006

Objectives : This study was to examine the effect of Intradermal Acupuncture therapy at Kyeonjeong, Cheonryo and Kokji on the shoulder pain. The research was conducted with non equivalent control group non-synchronized design. Methods :　IThe subjects were the women who was suffering for shoulder pain, who are employed at two hospitals in Busan, from April to June, 2006. The 24 women were experimental group who were applied to Intradermal Acupuncture Therapy at Kyeonjeong, Cheonryo and Kokji, while the 20 women were control group who weren't applied to any treatments. The severity of shoulder pain and the extent of the subjective symptoms of shoulder pain were pre-measured. The Intradermal Acupuncture therapy was done a total of 4 times, 2 times a week over 2 weeks and from 11 a.ｍ. to 2 p.m. as an experimental treatment. As a post survey, the severity of shoulder pain, the frequency of shoulder pain and the extent of the subjective symptoms of shoulder pain were measured after one week and two weeks of experimental treatment. Research tools are Visual Analogue Scale by Cline et al. for measuring the severity of shoulder pain and the tool developed by Japan's industrial fatigue research committee of the industrial hygienics society and modified. Results : There was a significant difference(F=4.132, p=0.019) for the severity of shoulder pain on the interaction between time and group. There was a significant difference(F=11.193, p=0.000) for the extent of the subjective symptoms of shoulder pain on the interaction between time and. group. Conclusion : Based on the above results, it can be determined that Intradermal Acupuncture Therapy at Kyeonjeong, Cheonryo and Kokji can be used as the effective treatments for reducing of shoulder pam.

• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.59-71
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• 1974

The studies were conducted on the allergic skin reaction of bovine eurytremiasis. In order to confirm the appearance of allergic skin reaction in this disease, a protein fraction of Eurytrema SPP(EPF) was extracted, and it's antigenicity was studied by means of intradermal reaction on the rabbits, goats and bovine. Rabbits used in this studies were divided into three groups: the first group was sensitized with EPF, the second group was sensitized with EPF, and the third group was served as control which is consisted with 5 non-sensitized and 2 saline injected rabbits. Three healthy native goats and bovine also used. Among these, 86 cases were eurytremiasis, 31 cases were fascioliasis and 71 cases non-infected. A protein fraction was also made from adult worm of Fasciola SPP(FPF) and tested the cross reaction between these two different fluke infestations. The results obtained were as follow: 1. Intradermal reaction was appeared in the infected cattle(bovine eurytremiasis) as well as in the EPF sensitized rabbits and goats. 2. In the EPF sensitized rabbits, the wheal of the intradermal reaction reacted the maximum size (increased wheal size of 5.0 to 9.0 mm) in 40 to 60 minutes and erythema in 60 minutes after intradermal injection of EPF antigen. In the EPF sensitized goats, the size of wheal reacted the maximum(increased wheal size of 5.5 to 8.0 mm) in 30 to 40 minutes, and then disappeared in 120 to 180 minutes after injection of EPF antgen. On the contrary, in the control groups of rabbits and goats, the wheal (7.0 mm) produced following antigen injection reached only to 7.5 to 8.5 mm. in 10 minutes without developing erythema, and then perished in 40 to 60 minutes after injection of EPF antigen. In the infected cattle, the wheal of the intradermal reaction reached the maximal sizes(increased wheal size of 4.0 to 11.0 mm) in 15 to 20 minutes and perished in 60 to 90 minutes after injection of EPF antigen. 3. It would be standardized that the positive reaction is above 4.0 mm, the negative below 2.0 mm and the suspective is 3.0 mm of the infected cattle. In the results of intradermal reaction, 87.2%(75 of 86 cases) was positive, 4.7%(4 of 86 cases) negative and 8.1% (7 of 86 cases) was suspective. However, in the non-infected control cattle, the wheal produced following injection disappeared in 30 to 40 minutes without increasing the wheal size in the most subjects or with incresing only to 1.0 to 2.0 mm in a few cattle. 4. In the results of intradermal reaction which were reciprocally tested in EPF sensitized rabbits by FPF antigen and in FPF sensitized. rabbits by EPF antigen, there were cross reacted. In the 31 cases if fascioliasis tested by EPF antigen, 11 cases were not specifically reacted with EPF antigen. Judging from the results of cross reaction in experimental rabbits and natural bovine fascioliasis, it would be expected when both EPF and EPF antigens are given intracutaneously on the same bovine patients of eurytremiasis or fascioliasis, the former antigen will produce the larger wheal in eurytremiasis, while the latter antigen will produce also the larger wheal in fascioliasis.

• Journal of Korean Academy of Fundamentals of Nursing
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.319-336
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• 1997

This study was done to identify the reality in doing the intradermal skin test of injectional antibiotics and to serve a basis to the clinical and educational situations. For the study, the survey was done to the staff nurses who are working at one of the selected 39 hospitals in the capital area, from January 6 to Feburary 8 in 1997. The data analysis was done by mean, standard deviation, Fisher's exact test, t-test, ANOVA through running SAS computer program. The results of the study were as follows : 1. The dilution ratio of the antibiotics was mostly 1 : 10 regardless of what kind of antibitics. Making the contrast was done only for the suspended to the antibiotics. Mostly the reaction was detected after 15 to 20 minutes from its diameter of redness and wheals. Most of the respondents answered they do the intradermal skin test only once for the same antibiotics. 2. In the education on the skin test the 66.7% from the respondents had exposed to the education mostly through the new nurses orientation. The 85,4% from them answered the need of the continuous education which had a significant difference in the number of beds(p=.046). The had experiences of detecting positive reactions(98.3%), and of anaphylaxis(49.5%) which had a significant difference in experience(p=.002) and in their age groups(p=.000). 3. The averge score of the confidence on the intradermal skin test was 3.32 form 4-point scale. Also it had a significant difference from the number of beds(p=.010), the year of experiences(p=.016), and their age groups(p=.046). 4. From the general characteristics of respondents, the injection methods had a significant difference in the amounts of injection, whether adopting the contrast pairing, and the repeatable skin tests for the same antibiotics. 5. Only 15 from 39 hospitals had their protocol about the intradermal skin test provided by nursing department which differs in its contents from that provided by the medical information center. From the results of the study, it is suggested that the continuous education on the intradermal skin test and its unified protocol should be provided. Also it is recomended that the drug manufacturer should notice about its anaphylactic cautions and pack its extra skin test use.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.29-31
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• 1969

The author observed the uptake rate of $^{131}I$ by the thyroid gland, and disappearing rate of the $^{131}I$ at the site of the intradermal injection of 0.1ml of 5mCi of $^{131}I$ in normal physiologic saline on 20 patients with hyperthyroidism and on 15 patients with hypothyroidism who visited the Radioisotpe department of the Pusan National University Hospital during the period from January 1967 to Aug. 1968, and during the same period 15 normal persons were examined by the same methods and found. The results were as follows: (1) The disappearance rate of $^{131}I$ at the injected site was highest in the cases of hyperthyrodism. The next highest results were obtained in the normal cases. The lowest results were obtained in the cases of hypothyroidism. (2) The uptake rate of the thyroid gland after intradermal injection of the $^{131}I$ was highest in the cases of hyperthyroidism and the next highest results were obtained in the cases of nomal findings. The lowest results were obtained in the cases of hypothyroidism. (3) In conclusion, the intradermal method of injecting $^{131}I$ by the author is a useful way of testing the function of the thyroid gland.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.221-231
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• 2011

Objectives : Kamibojungikgi-tang is one of the most frequently used medical treatment for the allergic rhinitis. The main symptoms of the allergic rhinitis are nasal obstruction, watery rhinorrhea, and sneezing. In this study, we investigated the medical effect of the Kamibojungikgi -tang with intradermal acupuncture treatment on the allergic rhinitis in 10-11 years old children. Methods : For 8 weeks, we administered Kamibojungikgi-tang to 84 patients and treated them with intradermal acupuncture. We checked their serum IgE and examined 10 symptoms of the allergic rhinitis (nasal obstruction, watery rhiorrhea, sneezing, nasal pruritus, hyposmia, quality of life, color of nasal mucosa, edema of nasal mucosa, postnasal drip, and complication). Results : 1. Serum IgE decreased 2.62 point. which showed no significance. 2. Nasal obstruction, watery rhiorrhea, sneezing, nasal pruritus, hyposmia, quality of life, color of nasal mucosa, edema of nasal mucosa, and postnasal drip were improved. (p<0.005) 3. Complication showed no significance. Conclusions : After treatment, we had a lower symptom index scores. Kamibojungikgi-tang with intradermal acupuncture treatment had an effect on the allergic rhinitis.