{"title":"Neonatal vallecular cyst: report of eleven cases.","authors":"H C Liu, K S Lee, C H Hsu, H Y Hung","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Vallecular cyst is fairly uncommon in neonates and infants. Although benign in nature, it may cause severe airway obstruction and even death. This study retrospectively analyzed the clinical manifestations of vallecular cyst in neonates and discussed its management.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From June 1993 through January 1997, 11 cases of vallecular cyst were collected and reviewed retrospectively. There were 8 male infants and 3 female infants. Their clinical manifestations, age at the onset of symptoms, age at diagnosis, and surgical management were analyzed. Fibrolaryngoscopy was used for preoperative diagnosis and postoperative follow-up.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The infants' initial presentations were inspiratory stridor, respiratory distress, noisy breathing, feeding difficulty, and failure to thrive. There was a high incidence of patients with coexisting signs of laryngomalacia (10/11). Ten patients received laryngomicrosurgery with CO2 laser for deroofing the cyst. Additional supraglottoplasty was performed at the same time in 4 patients with laryngomalacia type A + C and in one patient with severe laryngomalacia type C. Their symptoms all resolved soon after surgery. The phenomenon of laryngomalacia also disappeared. There has been no recurrence up to the present.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although fairly uncommon, vallecular cyst should be included in the differential diagnosis of congenital laryngeal stridor in neonates. The use of fibroendoscopy can promptly diagnose vallecular cyst and any synchronous airway lesions. Although most of the synchronous laryngomalacia (type C) in this study was secondary to vallecular cyst, we suggest that supraglottoplasty be taken into consideration during cyst deroofing when the signs and symptoms of laryngomalacia type A are also present.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"615-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A huge 6.2 kilogram uterine myoma coinciding with omental leiomyosarcoma: case report.","authors":"C W Ruan, C L Lee, C F Yen, C J Wang, Y K Soong","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Surgery for massive abdominal tumors is both interesting and challenging. We present a case involving a multiple uterine myoma weighing 6.2 Kg which coincided with omental leiomyosarcoma. To our knowledge, this is the first report of this type of condition in the English literature. A 44-year-old nulliparous woman had suffered from abdominal pain for a long time. A huge abdominal mass was palpated on physical examination. Computed tomography scanning revealed a huge pelvic-abdominal mass with the possibility of small bowel loops invaded by the mass. A 6-cm omental mass was incidentally found during the subsequent hysterectomy procedure. Perforation of the urinary bladder occurred during the dissection of adhesion. Resection of the omental mass, wide wedge resection of the invaded small bowel, primary repair of the bladder, and hysterectomy were performed. The final pathologic diagnosis was uterine leiomyomata with omental leiomyosarcoma. The patient returned home on postoperative day 14 and was well at the 18-month follow-up examination. The challenge of these tumors lies in their proper diagnosis and surgical management. More case reports and follow-up studies are needed to confirm the efficacy of their management.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"639-42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hemorrhagic gastric glomus tumor mimicks a leiomyosarcoma on both transabdominal and endoscopic ultrasonography: case report.","authors":"T L Tsai, C M Hsiaw, C S Changchien","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Glomus tumor is a benign tumor that arises from the modified smooth muscle cells of the glomus body and usually occurs in the skin, particularly in the nail-beds and fingertips. Gastric glomus tumor is a rare gastric submucosal tumor. Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is useful in differentiating the gastric submucosal tumors, such as leiomyoma, leiomyosarcoma, lipoma, ectopic pancreas and glomus tumor. On sonography, gastric glomus tumor appears as a homogeneous hypoechoic or a heterogeneous low echoic pattern mixed with internal high echoic spots. Here, we describe an unusual sonographic figure of a hemorrhagic gastric glomus tumor on both EUS and high-resolution transabdominal ultrasonography (TAU). This tumor was located in the gastric muscular layer. Sonographic examination revealed a heterogeneous echogenicity with hyper- and anechoic areas, which mimicked the echoic pattern of gastric leiomyosarcoma.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"687-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Renal autotransplantation for ureter stricture and renovascular disorders.","authors":"C K Chuang, S H Chu, S K Liao","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Renal autotransplantation is an established therapy in cases of renal vascular lesions, tumors of the kidney and ureter, complex ureteral lesions, and kidney trauma. It has been a significant technical innovation, aiding the urologist in his great effort to preserve renal function by conserving renal tissue. We report our experience with autotransplantation in 4 patients. The indications, techniques, and results of renal autotransplantation in relation to our own experience are discussed.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The patients included 3 women and one man. The average age of the patients was 35 years old, with a range from 20 to 54 years. One patient had Takayasu's arteritis, the second had Nutcracker syndrome with flank pain and hematuria, the third a complicated long ureter stricture, and the fourth patient a renal artery saccular aneurysm.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The average operation time was 7 hours (4.5 to 8.5 hours), and the cold ischemia time was about 88 minutes (45 to 150 minutes). Three of the autografts resumed normal renal perfusion, and in the fourth patient the renal autograft was lost due to vascular thrombosis.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Renal autotransplantation is a feasible method for the surgical treatment of renal and ureteral lesions. To avoid postoperative ureteral sloughing and subsequent urinary fistulas, the ureter can be left intact to preserve the ureter blood supply. However, in the case of a complicated vascular reconstruction procedure, it appears to be appropriate to divide the ureter and have the kidney completely free, thus avoiding back-flow perfusion from the intrinsic and intercommunicating blood supply in the ureteral wall, which may result in vascular thrombosis and subsequent autograft failure.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"621-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alien hand syndrome: report of two cases.","authors":"F Y Wu, C P Leong, T L Su","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Alien hand syndrome (AHS) refers to the occurrence of apparently purposeful movements in the hand which are independent of volitional control. Two subtypes of AHS have been proposed: frontal AHS, with grasp reflex and compulsive manipulation of tools by the dominant hand, and callosal AHS, which occurs in the nondominant hand and is characterized mainly by intermanual conflict. Here, we report two cases of frontal-type alien hand syndrome with symptoms of reflexive grasping, impulsive groping, and apraxia (in case 1), and compulsive manipulation of tools (in case 2). Brain computed tomography revealed a left anterior cerebral artery (ACA) territory infarct and multiple small infarcts of both hemispheres in patient 1 and a left ACA infarct in patient 2. The involuntary movements were bothersome to these patients in their daily activities. Both patients attended conventional physical and occupational therapies, and patient 2 received additional biofeedback training. Follow-up studies showed the spontaneous grasping behavior was still present in patient 1 and AHS had subsided in patient 2. We also describe a potentially effective technique involving biofeedback for patients with alien hand syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"660-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21547746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usefulness of pediatric flexible bronchoscopy in the early diagnosis and postoperation evaluation of vascular rings: report of three cases.","authors":"Y T Su, C K Niu, C D Liang, C B Huang, S F Ko","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vascular rings are a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for pediatricians. Many diagnostic modalities contribute to the detection of these rare congenital vascular anomalies. The role of flexible bronchoscopy is still being debated. We present 3 cases to emphasize the usefulness of pediatric flexible bronchoscopy (PFB) in the early diagnosis and postoperative evaluation of vascular rings. In patient 1, PFB was performed before conventional techniques were available. A right aortic arch with a retroesophageal aortic diverticulum and mirror-image branching was later confirmed. In patients 2 and 3, pulmonary artery slings could not be detected clearly by imaging studies before PFB was performed. PFB was arranged again postoperatively for these 2 patients, because of difficulty weaning patient 2 from ventilator support and persistent respiratory distress in patient 3. In conclusion, we expect that more vascular rings will be diagnosed using PFB. This instrument is also useful in making a decision for surgery, and for detecting associated tracheobronchial anomalies preoperatively, assuring appropriate correction intraoperatively, and monitoring the condition of vascular rings postoperatively.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"627-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Blunt trauma-induced internal thoracic artery injury: case report.","authors":"F C Tasi, J F Fang, P J Lin, Y S Chang, C H Chang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report the case of a 54-year-old male motorcyclist with an apparent grade IV liver injury and life-threatening hemomediastinum and right hemothorax following blunt deceleration trauma. Massive hemothorax and an unstable hemodynamic status even under copious blood volume replacement made emergent surgical intervention mandatory. A midline laparotomy was performed at first to rule out abdominal bleeding accompanied by a diaphragmatic tear, but the procedure was soon converted to a thoracotomy after finding an intact diaphragm and persistent bleeding from the chest tube. An isolated internal thoracic artery (ITA) transection was identified. It was actively bleeding and causing a huge anterior mediastinal hematoma and had ruptured into the right pleural cavity. The bleeder was controlled with suture ligation and the hemodynamic status was soon stabilized. The patient recovered without significant sequelae. The rarity of this kind of presentation is discussed, including both the ITA injury mechanism and the problems posed in making an early and correct diagnosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"666-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21547747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Airway obstruction in general anesthesia--two different episodes in the same patient: case report.","authors":"Y H Lee, S C Liou, C Chen, T K Wong, P P Tan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The case of a patient with Apert's syndrome (acrocephalosyndactyly) who had a tracheostomy tube and who encountered two different episodes of critical airway obstruction during two different general-anesthetic procedures for craniofacial surgery is reported. The first episode, at the age of four, involved occlusion of the uncuffed tracheostomy tube by a blood clot, which might have come from the surgical field of the maxillary Le-Fort III advancement procedure. The second episode was encountered during his emergence from the general anesthesia of a degloving midface osteoplasty and a maxillary Le-Fort I osteotomy procedure 3 years later. Although a cuffed armored tube had been inserted through the tracheostoma to prevent aspiration of blood from the surgical field, the armored tube was plugged by a piece of granulation tissue that might have been dislodged from the peri-stomal area. Factors that lead to tracheostomy tube obstruction, their clinical features and preventive measures are discussed. We believe that being alert to changes in the airway pressure, the ventilation pattern, and the hemodynamic status is necessary during the administration of general anesthesia. Precautions should be taken at all times, particularly for patients with a tracheostomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"682-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21547750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical implication of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance with or without favoring high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion on cervical smears.","authors":"C C ChangChien, H Lin, H L Eng, W K Chang","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The cytologic diagnosis of atypical squamous cells of undetermined significance (ASCUS) on a cervical smear usually makes clinicians unsure of how to manage the patient and follow-up on her condition. We attempted to define the clinical implication of qualifying the cytologic diagnosis of ASCUS as either favoring a high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion (HSIL) or not in an effort to provide management guidelines.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>From January through May 1997, 65 of 5792 women who had cervical/vaginal smears taken at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital were diagnosed as having ASCUS. Thirteen of the 65 cases of ASCUS favored an HSIL, based on nuclear abnormalities in atypical metaplastic and parakeratotic-type squamous cells. All these 65 patients were evaluated in our outpatient clinic by a second cervical smear, colposcopy, and colposcopically directed biopsies and/or endocervical curettage. The median length of the follow-up period was 19 months (range, 16 to 21 months).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 52 patients evaluated for ASCUS smears without favoring HSIL, 6 (11.5%) had a low-grade SIL (LSIL), 1 (1.9%) had cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade II (CIN II), and 1 (1.9%) had invasive squamous carcinoma. Of the 13 patients with a cervical cytologic diagnosis of ASCUS favoring HSIL, 1 (7.6%) had immature metaplasia, 2 (15.4%) had LSIL, 2 (15.4%) had CIN II, 6 (46.2%) had CIN III, and 2 (15.4%) had invasive squamous carcinoma.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>For patients with a cytologic diagnosis of ASCUS favoring HSIL, more aggressive interventions, such as colposcopy-directed biopsy, endocervical curettage, or even conization, should be performed promptly. However, those without features favoring HSIL may be evaluated with regularly repeated smears.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"579-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H H Chen, A J Iroatulam, O Alabaz, J S Joo, E G Weiss, J J Nogueras, S D Wexner
{"title":"Laparoscopic colectomy is superior to laparotomy for reduction of disability in patients with colorectal adenoma.","authors":"H H Chen, A J Iroatulam, O Alabaz, J S Joo, E G Weiss, J J Nogueras, S D Wexner","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>This study was to evaluate disability after laparoscopic colectomy in patients with colorectal adenomas as compared to disability after laparotomy.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Patients who underwent laparoscopic colectomy for colorectal adenoma were compared to patients who underwent laparotomy for the same problem by the same surgeons during the same time period in Cleveland Clinic Florida. A standard questionnaire was used to assess disability which included the number of days to return to partial activity, full activity, and work.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Twenty-nine patients who underwent laparoscopy were compared with 31 patients who underwent laparotomy. There were no significant differences in age (70.4 vs 72.5 years) (p = 0.405) or gender (M:F 13:16 vs 20:11) (p = 0.126) between the laparoscopy and laparotomy groups. The operative time was longer for the laparoscopy group than the laparotomy group: 170 vs 131 minutes (p = 0.014). However, the duration of postoperative ileus, hospitalization, time until return to partial activity, time until return to full activity, and time off of work were significantly shorter in the laparoscopy group than in the laparotomy group: 3.3 vs 5.2 days, 6.2 vs 8.7 days, 2.3 vs 4.2 weeks, 4.4 vs 9.3 weeks, and 3.7 vs 7.3 weeks, respectively (p < 0.041 for all). Although the incidence of postoperative complications was not significantly different (24% for laparoscopy vs 29% for laparotomy, p = 0.325), the incidence of postoperative prolonged ileus was statistically significantly lower in the laparoscopy group (3% vs 26%, p = 0.027).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Laparoscopic colectomy for patients with colorectal adenoma can reduce postoperative ileus, postoperative hospitalization, and disability in terms of a quicker return to partial activity, full activity, and employment. Laparoscopic colectomy should be considered for all patients who have colorectal adenomas which require resection.</p>","PeriodicalId":77066,"journal":{"name":"Changgeng yi xue za zhi","volume":"22 4","pages":"586-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21548564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}