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All at the Faculty of Medicne, Khon Kaen Univerisity Accident has been the leading cause of death in Thailand since AD 1976. Alcohol drinking has been strictly prohibited for the driver in many of the developed country. This study was conducted at accident and emergency ward of Srinagarind hospital. The traffic accident patients with suspicious of drinking were interiewed and their blood was drawn for alcohol level using gas chromatographic head space analysis. There were 68 percents of 183 suspected drunk accident cases. Those who had the high level of alcohol of 1.50-4.00 Promil which identified as drunk were found as many as 32 percents with one case over 4.00 Promil. Most of the accident occurred in the teenagers. Weekends and the time between 19.00 pm. to 24. pm. were the most liable period for accident.
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The cytopathology results of 698 fine needle aspirations (FNA) of thyroid nodules from the patients who visited Srinagarind Hospital from January 1984 to July 1990 were analyzed. Five hundred FNA (71.6%) were cytologically benign, 40 FNA (5.7%) were suspicious for malignacy, 21 FNA (30%) were malignant, and 137 FNA (19.6%) were unsatisfactory. The histologic diagnosis in 101 cases were compared with cytologic diagnosis to determine the accuracy of Fna cytology of thyroid lesions. From 24 diagnosis of malignancy reported by histology, 14 malignancies, 1 suspicious lesion, 2 benign lesions and 7 cystic lesions were found by FNA. No false positive were recorded. Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of FNA diagnoses were 87.5%, 100% and 96.15%, respectively.
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Srinagarind Hospital is the only university hospital in the upper Northeastern region of Thailand. The burn unit section has been set up for more than 5 years already, but the allocated space is only 4 beds in a single room with 2 isolated room available providing for both severe burn and other appropriate general surgical cases as well. Regarded as the tirtiary center for the referring system in this region, a great number of major burn cases from regional provinces have been referred here. An overiew of burn injury regarding age, sex, incidence, cause, severity of injury, mortality and bacteriology were reviewed. This study is only the preliminary study to express an overview of burn injury in this hospital during a 3 year period.
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The study was carried out to determine the accurate incidence and magnitude of problems of ovarian cancer in khon Kaen province and also to act as a pilot study for the feaxsibility of conducting the population-based registry of all ovarian cancer cases in Thailand. Under the method of population – based cancer registry , every case of ovarian cancer diagnosed from every health service center in KhonKaen province during the period from January 1,1985 to December 31 , 1987 was collected by the cancer unit , Faculty of Medicine , Khonkaed University both in passive and active methods After carefull check by unit’s staffs and computerized system , the cases were record in computer for further study. There were totally 72 new cases of ovarian cancer collected in this three-year period. The crude incidence rates varied from 3.06 to 3.37 per 100,000 poputation per year while the agestandardized incidence rates compared to standard world population varied from 4.15 to 4.55 per 100,000 population per year. The death cases of this disease in the same period of time were totally 20 with the crude mortality rates varied from 0.64 to 1.30 per 100,000 population per year while the age-standardized mortality rates varied from 0.81 to 1.94 per 100,000 population per year. The result of this study reveals the more reliable statistics about incidence and mortality rates of ovarian cancer than it has previously been reported. It showed the rather low incidence when compared with other countries in the world and still not the major cause of death in KhonKaen female population.