• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.363-366
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• 2011

Cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) are benign gliomas predominantly found in the pediatric population. Intracranial hemorrhages are extremely rare in initial presentations of cerebellar PAs. There are no reports in the medical literature of adult cerebellar PA cases presenting with intratumoral hemorrhage. We report 2 cases of adult cerebellar pilocytic astrocytomas with intratumoral hemorrhage. The first case is a 37-year-old woman presenting with severe headache, nausea, and vomitting. Computed tomography demonstrated an acute hemorrhage adjacent to the right cerebellar hemisphere and hydrocephalus. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a cerebellar vermian tumor with the hemorrhage as a mixed isoin-tense area in the T2-weighted image, and as a mixed hyperintense area in the contrast-enhanced T1-weighted image. The second case is a 53-year-old man presenting with headache for 3 weeks. MRI revealed a cerebellar hemispheric tumor with the hemorrhage as a mixed hyperintense area. It had a cystic mass with a heterogeneous enhanced mural nodule in the gadolinium-enhanced T1-weighted image and a fluid-fluid level within the cyst in the T2-weighted image. Both of them underwent radical resections of their respective lesions. Histological examination of the specimens revealed typical astrocytoma, including a hemorrhagic portion. Both patients recovered postoperatively and continue to do well at present. The medical literature on hemorrhagic cerebellar PAs is also reviewed.

• 한국독성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국독성학회 2002년도 Current Trends in Toxicological Sciences
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• pp.101-102
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• 2002

It has been reported that the incidence of liver cancer in human is markedly sex-differentiated, with a much higher frequency in men than in women. In experimental animals, male have higher incidence of liver tumor than female in carcinogen-induced tumors as well as spontaneous tumors.(omitted)

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.375-381
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• 1995

Two intraocular tumors were identified in low and medium dosed groups of a carcinogenicity study using 200 males and 200 females Sprague-Dawley rats in Screening & Toxicology Research Center, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology. The tumors were grossly observed as white or yellow, unilateral nodules. They were approximately $1-2{\times}3-5mm$ in size. The tumors located in the region of iris and/or ciliary body invaded peripheral cornea. The microscopic features were usually composed of spindle cells arranged in parallel, forming gently curving bundles or whorls. The spindle cells had poorly defined cell boundaries, scant to moderate cytoplasm, fusiform nuclei and indistinct nucleoli. Mitotic figures were rare and areas of necrosis were present. The spindle cells had positive immunoreactivity for S-100 protein and vimentin but negative for desmin, collagen and HMB-45 antibody. In special histochemical studies, the spindle cells react with Gomori's stain for argyrophih fibers, Prussian blue stain for iron but negative with Masson-Fontana's stain for melanin granules. Ultrastructurally, cytoplasmic premelanosomes were not observed in the tumor cells due to the poor preservation of tumor masses. Based on the results, the tumors were diagnosed as amelanotic melanoma.

• KSBB Journal
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.357-363
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• 1998

The antitumor effects of mice fed with cell lysate of Lactobacillus plantarum were studied. The abdominal cancer induced by Sarcoma-180 was markedly inhibited and the expected life span was extended by 60% for the Balb/c mice fed with L. plantarum cell lysate for two weeks. A similar result was obtained for the rat inoculated with Spontaneous Osteosarcoma(SOS). The primary tumor volume of SOS was reduced by 70% for the rats fed with L. plantarum cell lysate (100mg/kg/day) for one week before the inoculation of SOS, while only 42% for the rats fed with the same amount of cell lysate for one week after the inoculation of tumor cell line, SOS. As lung was the metastasis site of SOS, the weight of lung was measured to determine the degree of metastasis inhibition by the L. plantarum cell lysate feeding. The rats fed with cell lysate for one week showed a remarkable inhibition of lung metastasis by 63%(before) and 46%(after), respectively. These results indicate that the feeding of L. plantarum cell lysate to mouse or rat can induce a strong stimulation of mucosal or systemic immune system and these effects results in an efficient antitumor activity.

• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제20권6호
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• pp.539-544
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• 1997

Anti-metastatic activities of IH901, an intestinal bacterial metabolic derivative formed from Ginseng protopanaxadiol saponins, was determined in vitro and in vivo. Under in vitro conditions, IH901 inhibited the migration of bovine aortic endothelial cells 25 times stronger than suramin and suppressed the invasion of HT1080 human fibrosarcoma cells into reconstituted basement membrane components of Matrigel 1000 times stronger than RGDS peptide. IH901 also showed inhibitory effect on type-IV collagenase secretion from HT 1080 cells and platelet aggregation. When the anti-metastatic activity of IH901 was evaluated in comparison with that of 5-FU using a spontaneous lung metastatic model of Lewis lung carcinoma, the administration of IH901 (10 mg/kg p. o.) to tumor-bearing mice led to a significant decrease in lung metastasis (43% of untreated control), which was slightly more effective than that obtained with 5-FU (56% of control). Thus, IH901 seems to exhibit its anti-metastatic activity partly through the inhibition of tumor invasion which results from the blockade of type IV collagenase secretion and also through anti-platelet and anti-angiogenic activities.

• 대한두개안면성형외과학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.121-125
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• 2019

Merkel cell carcinoma is a rare cutaneous carcinoma, featured by an aggressive clinical course and a mortality rate of 28% at 2 years. A 71-year-old female was affected by a 4.1-cm-wide locally advanced Merkel cell carcinoma of the upper eyelid, previously misdiagnosed as chalazion, with involvement of the extraocular muscles. Although the tumor showed a macroscopic spontaneous regression in size after the incisional biopsy, the mass was treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy and surgical excision. Good functional and aesthetic result with preservation of the eyeball and absence of tumor recurrence were achieved at 3-year follow-up. In our experience, the combination of the inflammatory cascade due to the incisional biopsy and neoadjuvant chemotherapy led to the regression of a locally advanced large Merkel cell carcinoma of the eyelid.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제81권5호
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• pp.1227-1233
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• 2020

윤활막육종은 주로 사지, 특히 무릎 근처에 발생하는 악성 연부조직 종양으로, 가슴벽에 발생한 경우는 매우 드물다. 저자들은 26세 여성에서 앞가슴벽에 발생한 윤활막육종의 증례를 CT 및 MRI 소견을 중심으로 보고하고자 한다. CT에서 흉막하에 위치한, 경계가 좋으며 석회화를 동반한 작은 종괴로 관찰되어, 처음에는 양성 종양으로 생각하였다. 하지만 갑자기 심한 통증과 함께 종괴의 출혈과 혈흉이 동반되어 악성의 가능성을 고려하였다. MRI에서는 다엽성 종괴 내부에 액체액체층이 보였고, 이는 윤활막육종의 특징적인 영상 소견이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제39권12호
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• pp.949-952
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• 2006

자발성 기흉이 원발성 폐암의 초발 소견으로 나타나는 경우는 드물다. 이러한 경우 폐암은 진행된 경우가 많아 수술적 치료를 시행하더라도 예후가 안 좋은 경우가 많다. 과거 폐결핵을 앓았던 65세 남자 환자가 다수하 자발성 기흉으로 비디오흉강경을 이용한 폐기포 절제술 중 우연히 파열된 공동이 발견되어 동결절편으로 조직 생검한 결과 편평 상피 세포암으로 진단되었다. 폐종양은 상엽에서 폐열을 지나 하엽으로까지 침윤된 상태라 폐전절제술이 시행되었고 병리조직 병기는 stage I(T2N0M0) 이었다. 수술 이후 1년 6개월간 추적관찰상 재발이나 합병증은 없었다. 40대 이상의 흡연력이 있거나 만성기관지염, 폐기종이 있는 폐암 고위험군에서 자발성 기흉이 생긴 경우에 폐암의 가능성을 염두에 두고 객담세포검사, 기관지경 검사 및 흉부 CT촬영을 시행해서 기저 폐질환에 대한 세심한 관찰이 필요하며 지속적인 공기 누출이 있는 경우 흉강경 수술 등 보다 적극적인 접근이 필요하다.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.35-44
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• 1991

저자들은 1990년 3월부터 1991년 2월까지 영남대학교 의과대학 부속병원 신경외과학교실에서 뇌정위적 수술을 시행하여 뇌실질내 출혈부위와 뇌실내에 모두 도관을 삽입한 자발성 뇌실질내 출혈 환자 30례에서 뇌압변화와 임상증상의 변화를 분석하였다. 자발성 뇌실질내 출혈은 40-60대에 주로 발생하였고, 여자가 2.3배로 많았으며, 출혈위치는 피각부, 시상부, 소뇌부 등의 순으로 많았다. 그리고 고혈압의 기왕력을 가진 사람이 많았으며, 고혈압과 연관된 심전도 소견을 보인 경우가 많았다. 평균 동맥혈 이산화탄소분압이 높은 환자에서 뇌압이 높았으며, 뇌압과 재출혈 및 퇴원시 ADL과는 유의한 관계는 없었다. 수술후 72시간경에 뇌압이 가장 높았으며, 뇌실질내 출혈 부위에 6000 IU 유로키나제 세척을 시행한 결과 유로키나제 세척후는 전에 비하여 평균 63.2%의 감압이 있었다. 뇌압이 높은 경우 Natural drainage를 많이 시행 했으나, Natural drainage 횟수와 퇴원시 ADL과는 유의한 상관 관계를 보이지 않았다. 처음 GCS이 높을수록 수술후에 GCS이 높았으며, 평균 뇌압이 높을수록 평균 GCS이 낮아 환자 상태가 나쁜 경우가 많았다.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.193-197
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• 2008

The influence of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) on the bone marrow (BM) natural suppressor (NS) cells of intact Ehrlich carcinoma -bearing CBA mice was studied. Bone marrow NS cells were fractionated into three fractions by isopycnic centrifugation on percoll gradients: NS1 (${\rho}$=1.080 g/ml), NS2 (${\rho}$=1.090 g/ml) and NS3 (1.100> ${\rho}$ > 1.090 g/ml). These fractions were highly different in their sensitivity to known NS cell inductors (interleukin (IL)-2, IL-3 or histamine). None of the NS fractions isolated from the intact mice spontaneously produced antiproliferative activity, however, they showed a high level of NS (antiproliferative and natural killer cell inhibitory) activity under the influence of AFP. A single injection of AFP to intact mice led to an increase of spontaneous NS activity and the inhibition of natural killer cell activity. NS activity, especially NS2, was increased in when tumor cells were subcutaneously inoculated three days after AFP injection. In the AFP-treated mice, the tumor mass at 14 days was 60% larger than that in the untreated mice. Our data confirmed that AFP is a tumor marker that can inhibit cancer immunity and plays a role in cancer pathogenesis.