• Medical Lasers
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.28-31
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• 2019

Superficial fungal infections with dermatophytes, nondermatophyte molds, or yeasts are treated primarily with topical and/or systemic antifungal agents. Additional or alternative treatment modalities, particularly energy-delivering modalities, however, are used widely to induce fungicidal effects via selective photothermal reactions. In addition to light- or laser-based devices, plasma therapy also has antifungal properties. This report describes a Korean male patient with mycologically confirmed tinea pedis that was treated effectively with two sessions of nitrogen plasma treatment at one-week intervals using a plasma delivering system. Nitrogen plasma was prepared by loading a 0.28-ml inert nitrogen gas/pulse that was activated by a microwave generator. The other treatment settings were a nozzle diameter of 5 mm, pulse energy of 0.75 J, pulse duration of 7 msec, and two passes. One week after the first session of nitrogen plasma treatment, the patient exhibited marked reductions in scale and inflammation. One month after the final treatment, no clinical features of recurrence were found, and successive potassium hydroxide testing revealed negative results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.15-29
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• 2024

A fetoscope is an optical endoscope, which is often applied in fetoscopic laser photocoagulation to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. In an operation, the clinician needs to observe the abnormal placental vessels through the endoscope, so as to guide the operation. However, low-quality imaging and narrow field of view of the fetoscope increase the difficulty of the operation. Introducing an accurate placental vessel segmentation of fetoscopic images can assist the fetoscopic laser photocoagulation and help identify the abnormal vessels. This study proposes a method to solve the above problems. A novel encoder-decoder network with a dual-path structure is proposed to segment the placental vessels in fetoscopic images. In particular, we introduce a channel attention mechanism and a continuous convolution structure to obtain multi-scale features with their weights. Moreover, a switching connection is inserted between the corresponding blocks of the two paths to strengthen their relationship. According to the results of a set of blood vessel segmentation experiments conducted on a public fetoscopic image dataset, our method has achieved higher scores than the current mainstream segmentation methods, raising the dice similarity coefficient, intersection over union, and pixel accuracy by 5.80%, 8.39% and 0.62%, respectively.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제34권9호
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• pp.662-671
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• 2001

배경: 최근 레이저를 이용한 경심근 혈류 재건술(TMR)이 말기 협심증 환자에게 협심증이 개선에 효과가 있는 치료 방법으로 보고되고 있으나 여러 동물 실험 연구들에서는 상반되는 결과들이 발표되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 돼지의 만성 심근 허혈 모델에서 국소 심근 혈류량의 측정을 통하여 TMR 후 심근 관류 개선 여부를 검증하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 14마리의 돼지에서 좌회선지 관상동맥에 ameroid ring을 거치하여 만성 심근 허혈을 조성한 후 4주 경과시 각 7마리씩 대조군과 실험군으로 나누어 대조군에서는 개흉과 심낭내 유착 박리만을 시행하였고 실험군에서는 Ho:YAG 레이저를 이용하여 좌회선지 영역에 TMR을 시행하였다. 이후 다시 4주가 지난후 동물을 희생시키고 심장을 적출하여 각 수술 시마다 주사된 각각 다른 색의 착색 미세구를 이용, 국소 심근 혈류량을 측정하였다. 심근 절편 내의 미세구 함유량을 측정하여 회선지 영역과 심실 중격간의 혈류량 비를 비교함으로써 대주군과 실험군 사이의 혈류량 변화의 차이를 분석하였다. 결과: Ameroid ring 거치 4주 후 좌회선지 영역의 심근 혈류량은 심실 중격 혈류량의 46∼89%로 감소되었다. 8주 경과시의 좌회선지 영역 심근 혈류량은 대조군 4마리 중 3마리에서 4주 경과 시에 비해 유의하게 증가되었으며 증가 폭은 14∼18%였다. 실험군 6마리 중에서는 2마리에서만 유의한 증가가 관찰되었으며 증가 폭은 7∼34%였다. 결론: 돼지 만성 심근 허혈 모델에서 Ho:YAG 레이저를 이용한 TMR 시행 4주후 허혈 영역의 국소 심근 혈류량 증가는 대조군과 비교하여 큰 차이가 나지 않는 것으로 판단되었다. 그러나 통계적 유의성을 검증하기 위해서는 더 많은 수의 동물을 대상으로 한 연구가 후속되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.647-651
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• 2010

연속형 $CO_2$ 레이저와 펄스형 $CO_2$ 레이저를 이용한 돼지 피부절개 시 창상 치유에 미치는 영향을 평가하고자 본 실험을 실시하였다. 다섯 마리의 돼지(Landrace x Yorkshire) (45-51 kg, 4-6 개월령, 수컷 3마리, 암컷 2마리)를 이용 하였고, 각각의 돼지에서 우측 및 좌측의 등쪽 피부에 대칭적으로 연속형 $CO_2$ 레이저와 펄스형 $CO_2$ 레이저를 이용하여 절개($2{\times}2{\times}2cm^2$) 하였다. 양측 피부 절개는 Maxon 3-0 를 이용하여 봉합하였다. 수술 후 3, 7, 14, 21일에 병리조직학적 검사를 실시하였다. 창상 부위의 재상피화는 연속형 $CO_2$ 레이저 군에 비해 펄스형 $CO_2$ 레이저군에서 더 많이 이루어졌다. 육아조직 형성은 창상후 경과일 3일에 펄스 $CO_2$ 레이저군에서 유의적으로 높게 나타났다(P < 0.05). 섬유아세포는 창상후 경과일 7일에 펄스형 $CO_2$ 레이져군에서 유의적으로 많게 형성되었다(P < 0.05). 결론적으로 피부절개 시에 있어서 펄스형 $CO_2$ 레이저는 연속형 $CO_2$ 레이저에 비하여 재상피화, 육아조직형성 및 섬유아세포가 더 높게 나타났으며, 레이저 시술에 따른 조직손상을 적게 나타내었다. 따라서 피부절개 시에 있어서 펄스형$CO_2$ 레이저가 연속형 $CO_2$ 레이저 보다 더 적합할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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• 제34권5호
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• pp.555-561
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• 2008

Purpose: The goal of this study was to develop a technique for creating a computerized composite maxillofacial-dental model, based on point-based surface best fit algorithm and to test its accuracy. The computerized composite maxillofacial-dental model was made by the three dimensional combination of a 3-dimensional (3D) computed tomography (CT) bone model with digital dental model. Materials and Methods: This integration procedure mainly consists of following steps : 1) a reconstruction of a virtual skull and digital dental model from CT and laser scanned dental model ; 2) an incorporation of dental model into virtual maxillofacial-dental model by point-based surface best fit algorithm; 3) an assessment of the accuracy of incorporation. To test this system, CTs and dental models from 3 volunteers with cranio-maxillofacial deformities were obtained. And the registration accuracy was determined by the root mean squared distance between the corresponding reference points in a set of 2 images. Results and Conclusions: Fusion error for the maxillofacial 3D CT model with the digital dental model ranged between 0.1 and 0.3 mm with mean of 0.2 mm. The range of errors were similar to those reported elsewhere with the fiducial markers. So this study confirmed the feasibility and accuracy of combining digital dental model and 3D CT maxillofacial model. And this technique seemed to be easier for us that its clinical applicability can good in the field of digital cranio-maxillofacial surgery.

• Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine
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• 제40권1호
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• pp.33-37
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• 2013

Autophagy is a degradation process that acts in response to environmental stressors. Recently, autophagy has been detected in normal term, preeclamptic and intrauterine growth-restricted placentas. The object of this work was to investigate the presence of autophagy in first trimester voluntary interruption of pregnancy placental villi by the expression of autophagy-related proteins, light chain 3 (LC3), and Beclin-1. In first trimester placental villi laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM) analysis revealed LC3 and Beclin-1 immunoreactivity prevalently located in villous cytotrophoblasts. Using LSCM, LC3, and Beclin-1 were localized to the cytoplasm of the trophoblast layer in human full-term placentas. Beclin-1 expression and LC3 activation were confirmed by western blotting. These data emphasize that autophagy activation is different among cytotrophoblasts and syncytiotrophoblasts depending on the gestational age and thus we speculate that autophagy might play a prosurvival role throughout human pregnancy.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.27-30
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• 2020

Among lesions in the larynx, laryngeal contact granuloma due to persistent tissue irritation can typically be attributed to endotracheal intubation, vocal abuse, or gastro-esophageal reflux disease. Treatment typically includes voice therapy, lifestyle changes and use of anti-reflux medication. Microsurgical removal is only indicated in cases of severe dyspnea due to mass size. Foreign body granuloma is a response of to any foreign material in the tissue. Foreign body granulomas are sometimes misdiagnosed as soft tissue tumors when the causative foreign body is not initially found. Delayed treatment of these foreign bodies may cause complications. We present a case of larynx granuloma due to impacted foreign body, probably fish bone, in the larynx that mimicked contact granuloma. We initially used anti-reflux medication, but to no avail. The laryngeal mass, observed through laryngoscopy, showed no improvement and therefore necessitated a proper pathologic diagnosis. We were able to successfully treat it via trans-oral laser CO2 microsurgery before any complications developed.

• Research in Vestibular Science
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.134-141
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• 2018

Objectives: We aimed to study the role of vestibular input on spatial memory performance in mice that had undergone bilateral surgical labyrinthectomy, semicircular canal (SCC) occlusion and 4G hypergravity exposure. Methods: Twelve to 16 weeks old ICR mice (n=30) were used for the experiment. The experimental group divided into 3 groups. One group had undergone bilateral chemical labyrinthectomy, and the other group had performed SCC occlusion surgery, and the last group was exposed to 4G hypergravity for 2 weeks. The movement of mice was recorded using camera in Y maze which had 3 radial arms (35 cm long, 7 cm high, 10 cm wide). We counted the number of visiting arms and analyzed the information of arm selection using program we developed before and after procedure. Results: The bilateral labyrinthectomy group which semicircular canal and otolithic function was impaired showed low behavioral performance and spacial memory. The semicircular canal occlusion with $CO_2$ laser group which only semicircular canal function was impaired showed no difference in performance activity and spatial memory. However the hypergravity exposure group in which only otolithic function impaired showed spatial memory function was affected but the behavioral performance was spared. The impairment of spatial memory recovered after a few days after exposure in hypergravity group. Conclusions: This spatial memory function was affected by bilateral vestibular loss. Space-related information processing seems to be determined by otolithic organ information rather than semicircular canals. Due to otolithic function impairment, spatial learning was impaired after exposure to gravity changes in animals and this impaired performance was compensated after normal gravity exposure.

• Medical Lasers
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2019

Background and Objectives High-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) has been developed as an effective, non-invasive, skin-tightening method in response to the increasing demand for improvements in skin laxity and tightening with minimal risk and recovery time. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of HIFU for non-invasive skin tightening of crow's feet wrinkles, with the aim of determining how long the tightening can be maintained. Materials and Methods Between January and March 2019, 21 female patients with crow's feet wrinkles were treated with HIFU. The treatment involved 200 shots, three times every 2 weeks. Three blinded, experienced plastic surgeons and patients evaluated satisfaction at 2 weeks after the first procedure, 2 weeks after the second procedure, 2 weeks after the third procedure, and 6 weeks after the first procedure based on photographs according to the Global Aesthetic Improvement Scale (GAIS). The Friedman test was used to compare data. Results Of the 21 patients treated using HIFU, one was lost to follow-up for nonstudy-related reasons. Therefore, 20 patients were evaluated and ranged in age from 28 to 48 years. Plastic surgeons' GAIS scores were 2.6, 2.3, 1.7, and 1.3 and patients' GAIS scores were 2.6, 2.2, 1.8, and 1.4 at 2 weeks after the first procedure, 2 weeks after the second procedure, 2 weeks after the third procedure, and 6 weeks after the third procedure. No serious adverse effects were observed. Conclusion The aging face with crow's feet wrinkles can be improved by using HIFU, while minimizing epidermal and dermal injury.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• 제42권
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• pp.35.1-35.6
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• 2020

Background: Miescher's cheilitis granulomatosa (MCG) is a rare chronic inflammatory disease and is known as the monosymptomatic clinical form of Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (MRS). It is characterised by swelling of one or both lips and more frequently affects the upper lip. Histopathological findings show the presence of numerous inflammatory infiltrates and granuloma formations. Pharmacological treatments and surgery have provided results that are positive yet insufficiently stable in the long term. The clinical case described is of a 68-year-old female patient with a diagnosis of MCG of the upper lip. Case presentation: The patient was diagnosed and treated at the Oral Medicine and Oral Pathology outpatient clinic of Maxillofacial and Odontostomatology Unit, Fondazione Cà Granda IRCCS Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico. The patient was recommended localised treatments of photobiomodulation (PBM) using a diode laser with a 635 nm and 980 nm dual-wavelength (λ) approach, a 600-micron fibre, and a handpiece with a 1-cm-diameter lens at 300 mW. Three treatments a week were administered for four weeks for a total of 12 treatment sessions (T₁-T₁₂). After that, the patient had a long follow-up period of about 2 years. The therapeutic results were clear from the initial stages of treatment. There was an immediate, gradual, and consistent reduction in labial swelling. A reduction in the size of the lip by about 35% at T₁₀-T₁₂ was observed, returning the size and volume of the upper lip within the normal clinical range. The painful symptoms subsided after the seventh treatment (T₇). The histopathological check at 3 months and the follow-up in particular confirmed the disease was in remission with satisfactorily stable treatment results. Moreover, the patient did not use any other treatments on the area from the early laser treatments through to the end of the follow-up period. Conclusions: Our experience describes a clinical case of MCG treated with PBM and effectively resolved with a reduction of the lip swelling. The real success of the treatment emerged over time, showing that the tissue healing was stable. In absence of any collateral phenomena, this confirms the effective and documented therapeutic potential of PBM for chronic inflammatory infiltrates.