• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제40권11호
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• pp.798-801
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• 2007

24세 남자가 우연히 발견된 폐실질 내 이물로 내원하였다. 단순흉부촬영상 약 5 cm크기의 금속성물질로 보였고, 흉부단층촬영에서 좌하엽폐야에 바느질 바늘로 추정되는 이물이 발견되었다. 수술은 흉강경을 이용하여 바늘을 제거하였다. 수술 후 환자는 특별한 경과나 합병증 없이 퇴원하였다. 이에 저자들은 폐실질 내 이물의 흉강경적 제거를 치험하였기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고한다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제39권3호
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• pp.248-250
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• 2006

48세 여자 환자로 건강검진에서 우연히 발견된 폐내 이물로 내원하였다. 단순흉부촬영에서 좌상엽폐야에 약 4 cm 크기의 금속성 이물이 발견되었고, 흉부단층촬영에서 좌상엽 내에 바느질 바늘로 추정되는 이물이 확인되었다. 바늘 주위에 섬유화 및 염증 소견은 보이지 않았다. 수술은 개흉 후 이물을 포함한 쐐기절제를 시행하였고, 이물은 3조각으로 분절된 바늘이었다. 술 후 환자는 별다른 경과나 합병증 없이 퇴원하였다. 이에 저자들은 폐내 이물, 바늘의 수술적 제거를 경험하였기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고한다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.281-284
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• 2008

기관지 내 이물은 대부분 흡입에 의해서 발생한다. 하지만 본 증례에서는 폐엽 절제술을 시행받은 5년 후, 기관지 내로 수술 시 사용한 비금속성 이물질이 배출된 드문 경우이다. 이 기관지 이물은 기관지 내시경으로 제거되었으며 수술 중 지혈 목적으로 사용된 테플론으로 밝혀졌다. 아직 수술 후 이러한 이물들이 기관지로 이주하여 배출되는 정확한 원인은 알 수 없으나 이번 증례는 일본에서 발표된 증례와 함께 비금속성의 물질들도 폐 실질에서 기관지로의 이주가 가능하다는 증거가 된다는 점에서 의미가 있겠다.

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.84-93
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• 1997

The bronchoscopy is usually performed in the patients who present symptoms of wheezing, hemoptysis, signs of airway obstruction, unexplained long-term chronic cough with or without radiologic features of pneumonia, emphysema or atelectasis. The symptoms and signs of cases of suspected airway foreign body are of often cofused with those of asthma pneumonia and other respiratory tract disease. The ventilating bronchoscopy will be helpful for removal of certain foreign bodies as well as alleviating medically-unresponsive bronchopulmonary conditions via removing abnormal secretions or merely improving ventilation. The authors have performed clinical analysis of 59 patients who were suspected of airway foreign bodies and treated by ventilating bronchoscopy from September 1985 to February 1995. The results were as follows: 1) Among the 59 cases of bronchoscopy, 51 cases(97%) were under the age of 3. The ratio of male and female was 2.69:1 2) Most common presenting symptom was coughing(84.7%) followed by dyspnea, fever, wheezing and anterior chest pain. 3) Among 39 cases of identified foreign bodies, abnormal findings in the chest X-ray films were found in 33 cases(84.6%) and most common abnormal radiologic feature was pneumonia in 10 cases(25.6%) followed by combination of pneumonia and emphysema, or emphysema alone. All the 20 cases of absent foreign body presented abnormal radiologic features and common findings were pneumonia and atelectasis. 4) Vegetable foreign bodies were the most common form of removed airway foreign bodies(69.2%) followed by metallic foreign bodies(12.8%) and plastic foreign bodies(7.7%). 5) By distribution of the location of foreign bodies, 29 cases(74.4%) were located in the main bronchus( 16 cases of right side and 13 cases of left side), 8 cases were in the trachea and 2 cases were found at the cordal level. 6) By duration of foreign body lodgement in the airway, 9 cases(23.1%) were removed within 7 to 30 days, 10 cases(5.6%) within 3 days and 5 cases(12.8%) were enlodged over 30 days. 7) In the cases of absent foreign bodies, common bronchoscopic findings were mucopurulent or thick mucoid discharge in the main bronchi, erythema or edema of bronchial mucosa and all the cases were improved after ventilating bronchoscopy with concomitant medical management.

• 대한안과학회지
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• 제60권5호
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• pp.480-485
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• 2019

목적: 20년 동안 수정체 내에 잔존했던 안내 이물에 의해 발생한 백내장수술 후 안내염을 경험하였기에 보고하고자 한다. 증례요약: 45세 남자 환자가 3개월 전부터 시작된 우안의 점진적인 시력저하를 주소로 내원하였다. 세극등현미경검사상 우안 수정체전낭의 혼탁, 수정체핵경화, 후낭밑백내장 소견을 보였다. 과거력상 20년 전 못이 우안에 튀어 수상한 기왕력이 있었으며 수상 당시 시행한 세극등현미경검사에서는 안내 이물을 확인하지 못하였다. 환자는 계획에 따라 백내장수술을 시행하기로 하였다. 수정체유화술 중 수정체 내에 금속이물이 발견되어 금속이물을 안전하게 제거하고, 인공수정체를 삽입하였다. 술 후 3일째에 전방축농 소견이 관찰되어 항생제 유리체내주사를 시행하고 강화-항생제 안약을 점안하였다. 이후 전방내 염증 소견은 호전되었으며, 교정시력은 1.0으로 회복되었다. 결론: 외상 시 간과되어 안구 내에 잔존한 이물이 염증과 증상을 일으키지 않아 장기간 수정체 내에 잔존하였다가 이후 백내장을 진행시킨 경우에도 백내장수술 및 안내 이물제거 후 안내염이 발생할 수 있음을 주의해야 한다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.331-338
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• 1981

The inhalation of a foreign body into the tracheobronchial tree is a child is a life-threatening accident. Forgotten foreign bodies In the airways cause chronic pulmonary infections, allergic asthma, bronchiectatic changes, and lung abscess Foreign bodies that cannot be grasped by bronchoscopic forceps should be removed by thoracotomy and bronchotomy. This report describes our experience In 16 patients who were treated to remove inhaled foreign bodies from the airways after repeated bronchoscopies had been unsuccessful from 1963 to 1981 at the department thoracic surgery of Seoul National University Hospital. The surgical procedures are as follows: 12 patients bronchotomy, 2 patient pneumonectomy, 2 patients lobectomy. In these cases, the foreign bodies are 8 metallic material, 3 plastic material, 1 bean, 1 black snail, and 3 cases of no records. Bronchotomy must be performed as soon as possible in order to avoid more advanced pathologic changes In the Involved lung, such as bronchiectasis, fibrosis or abscess.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제66권5호
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• pp.598-604
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• 2023

Penetrating head injury is a serious open cranial injury. In civilians, it is often caused by non-missile, low velocity flying objects that penetrate the skull through a weak cranial structure, forming intracranial foreign bodies. The intracranial foreign body can be displaced due to its special quality, shape, and location. In this paper, we report a rare case of right-to-left displacement of an airgun lead bullet after transorbital entry into the skull complicated by posttraumatic epilepsy, as a reminder to colleagues that intracranial metal foreign bodies maybe displaced intraoperatively. In addition, we have found that the presence of intracranial metallic foreign bodies may be a factor for the posttraumatic epilepsy, and their timely removal appears to be beneficial for epilepsy control.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2022

Other than gunshot injuries, sacral penetrating injuries with a foreign body exiting to the other side are extremely rare. We encountered a case of sacral injury in which a long metallic pipe penetrated from the anus into the lower back of a patient. Since the pelvis contains various organs, management of a penetrating injury requires multidisciplinary treatment involving several medical specialties. Due to the infrequency of this type of injury, there are no definitive guidelines for effective management. We described our experience surgically treating a sacral penetrating injury and conducted a literature review. On this basis, we suggest a surgical strategy for treating this type of injury.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.929-935
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• 1990

Violence in our society, combined with improving transport system, resulted in increased numbers of patients with cardiac wounds reaching the hospital alive. Most patients with penetrating cardiac injury, rather than blunt injury, present with a syndrome of either hemorrhagic shock or cardiac tamponade. And they should be operated upon as soon as possible. Often the atrioventricular valves and other important cardiac structures are also damaged by the penetrating instruments or missile. Both intracardiac communications and atrioventricular fistulas may result in significant left-to-right shunts accompanied by congestive heart failure, necessitating surgical correction. Usually, retained cardiac foreign bodies, which are almost always bullets or fragments of missiles, may lie within a cardiac chamber or in the myocardium. Emboli of bullets or other missiles from distant sites to the right side of the heart are numerous enough to require attention. Recently we experienced a case with intracardiac foreign body due to penetrating cardiac injury. A 19 year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to penetrating anterior chest wound by iron segment. The roentgenogram of the chest revealed a radio-opaque metallic shadow in left lower chest around the cardiac apex, mild blunting of left costophrenic space, but no cardiomegaly. During operation the foreign body was noted to be present in the cardiac chamber by the portable C-arm fluoroscopy. But during the manipulation it moved into left inferior pulmonary vein from left ventricle by way of left atrium. So we could manage to remove it from left inferior pulmonary vein by direct approach to the vein. It was iron segment, sized 0.lcm x0.6cmx0.5cm, with sharp margins. The patient had an uneventful postoperative recovery except for chylopericardium and was discharged.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2005

Objectives : There have been several studies about the quality of acupuncture needle tip recently. We have investigated the condition of the tip of the acupuncture needles in the last studies. In the former studies, we discovered the metallic scuff, lumps and irregularities of the acupuncture needle tips under the microscope. But, no information was available on those foreign materials' identity. Methods : We have selected 200 needles of 1000 pieces from several companies by randomized methods. And we observed the tip of the 6 needles selected finally at ${\times}1000\;or\;{\times}3000$ magnification and analyzed the components of the metallic scuff, lumps and irregularities of the needle tips with a SEM-EDX analyser. Results : We found that the identity of the metallic scuff, lumps and irregularities of the needle tips were metallic materials and silicon. For example, A point was composed of Fe(69.78%), Cr(17.71%), Ni(8.11%), Zn(2.04%), Si(1.23%), Mn(1.12%), and B point was composed of Si(66.40%), Fe(26.76%), Cr(6.84%). Conclusion : The results of this study confirm that there is a real possibility of the remaining of metallic materials and silicon in body of patient, after acupuncture treatment. Therefore, it is necessary to intensify our efforts to make needles of good quality and to concentrate on manufacturing process of acupuncture needles completely to be free from danger in acupuncture treatment.