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K Namba

Publications and source records attributed to K Namba.

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PubMed1981

Postcontrast computed tomography in subarachnoid hemorrhage from ruptured aneurysms.

Computed tomography (CT) scans of 49 patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) secondary to ruptured aneurysms were reviewed. Subarachnoid blood was detected in 95% when CT was performed within 5 days after the bleeding. Prediction of the site of the ruptured aneurysm from distribution of the cisternal blood varied from 92% for the anterior cerebral artery aneurysms to 70% for the middle cerebral and 47% for the internal carotid artery aneurysms. Following plain CT scans, postcontrast studies were performed in 27 patients. Aneurysms were directly visualized in 8 cases and subarachnoid enhancement was noted in 21. In 3 cases, subarachnoid enhancement made possible a correct diagnosis of SAH in the absence of evidence of cisternal blood on precontrast CT scans.

Adult↗
PubMed1980

Problems and reconstruction of "dish face" deformity due to cleft lip and palate.

This paper deals with the unique aspects and surgical indication of "dish face" deformity, including "flat face" deformity, due to cleft lip and palate. The importance of deformities of the nose and lip caused by cleft lip and palate and the role of their reconstruction in the treatment of "dish face" deformity are described in detail. For the protruding chin and pseudoprognathism, vertical osteotomy of the ramus of the mandible is recommended over advancement osteotomy of the hypoplastic maxilla.

Cleft Lip↗
PubMed1979

The separation of basal and differentiating cells from human epidermis for DNA cytofluorometry.

A method for the selective separation of human epidermal cells, in which the Feulgen-stainable material suffers minimal damage, was investigated. The principal stage involves alpha-chymotrypsin treatment of skin specimens as well as shaking in an isotonic solution. With respect to DNA distribution pattern, there was good agreement between that of epidermal cells separated with the microdissection-ultrasonic irradiation method, reported previously by us, and those separated by the present method.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

The eighth Frederick H. Verhoeff Lecture. presented by saiichi mishima, MD Behçet's disease in Japan: ophthalmologic aspects.

The problems of Behçet's disease in Japan have been reviewed with particular emphasis on the ophthalmologic aspects: the historical background for the Japanese works, diagnostic critieria, epidemiology, some statistics, ocular symptomatology, ocular histopathology, etiology, pathophysiology, and treatment. Behçet's disease is the most frequent entity in endogenous uveitis in Japan. Patients are found throughout the country, and the prevalence rate averages seven to eight per 100,000 population: the rate is higher in the northern than in the southern districts. The diagnosis is made on the basis of a combination of clinical symptoms that are divided into the major and minor criteria symptoms. The major criteria comprise the ocular involvement, aphthous ulcers of the oral mucous membrane, genital ulcers, and skin lesions. These symptoms recur often as attacks and the disease follows a chronic course. The ocular involvement is found in 83% to 95% in males and 67% to 73% in females; the male to female ratio in the number of patients is 1.78. Both into the anterior segment type and the fundus and panophthalmic types. The anterior segment type shows serous iridocyclitis with the classic type of hypopyon appearing in about 12% of the attacks. This type is found in about 20%, more often in females than in males, and the visual prognosis is more favorable than in the fundus and panophthalmic types. In the latter two types, attacks of retinal angitis resulting in intensive retinal edema, yellowish-white exudate, and hemorrhages recur particularly in the macular region, and the visual prognosis is poor. More than 50% of male patients lose visual acuity to less than 0.1 in five years, but this is the case in only 10% of female patients. Consequently, Behçet's disease is the cause of blindness in about 12% of acquired blindness in adults. The ocular histopathology during the attack is characterized by severe angitis with intensive infiltration of neutrophil leucocytes largely in the uveal tract and the retina; the latter is severely affected and loss of visual cells and other neural elements results. The etiology of this disease still remains unknown but genetic predisposition is suggested since this disease is strongly linked with HL-A-B5. Environmental factors are also considered. Various abnormalities are found in the blood chemistry, blood cells (particularly in neutrophil leucocytes), immunologic mechanism, fibrinolytic and blood clotting system, and hormonal system. Chemotractic factors are found in the aqueous humor. These changes are particulary enhanced just before and during the ocular attacks. Systemic corticosteroids are deleterious to the visual prognosis, but cyclophosphamide and colchicine appear to suppress attacks and help patients maintain the visual acuity. However, these drugs are toxic, particulary to the reproductive organs, and the patients must be informed of this side effect and be allowed to make a decision before they are used.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Trigeminal neurilemmoma presenting as a sphenoid sinus mass.

Trigeminal neurilemmomas have been known to invade the posterior fossa. Infratemporal fossa, encroach upon the lateral wall of the sphenoid sinus and extend along the three divisions of the trigeminal nerve. Herein described, is a patient with a trigeminal neurilemmoma that extended into the sphenoid sinus, necessitating transphenoidal excision.

Adult↗
PubMed1979

Neural changes in recurrent genital infection of infectious bovine rhinotracheitis virus in calves treated with dexamethasone.

Recurrent genital infection with infectious bovine rhinotracheitis (IBR) virus was induced in calves by dexamethasone (DM) treatment 3 months after primary infection. The virus was first recovered from vaginal secretions on the 3rd day after the initiation of DM treatment; however, the virus was not recovered at all from nasal secretions or from the cerebrospinal fluid of the DM-treated calves. The significant neural changes in all recurrent infected calves were nonsuppurative poliomyelitis in the lumbosacral spinal cords and their ganglia, and they were more severe in the sacrospinal cords than in other parts of the spinal cord. The virus antigen was detected in the sacrospinal ganglia and peripheral nerve fibres in the submucosa of the vagina by the fluorescent antibody technique on the 4th and 6th days after the start of DM treatment. These observations indicated that nonsuppurative poliomyelitis may be a characteristic lesion in recurrent genital infection of IBR virus. The sacrospinal cords and ganglia are considered as latent sites of IBR virus.

Animals↗
PubMed1979

Primary rhabdomyosarcoma of the tentorium with peculiar angiographic findings.

Primary intracranial rhabdomyosarcoma is extremely rare, only nine cases have been reported in the world literature. To differentiate it from medullomyoblastoma, rhabdomyosarcoma should be devoid of neuroblastic elements. A case of rhabdomyosarcoma of the tentorial region in a 17-year-old boy is reported. Carotid angiograms demonstrated a peculiar neovascularity. Multiple cytologic preparations of CSF repeatedly contained rhabdomyosarcoma cells and CSF dissemination in the spinal subarachnoid space was documented at autopsy. The literature is reviewed.

Adolescent↗