One-week complaints of neurotic patients / 신경정신의학

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A linguistic study on the complaints of somatizers / 신경정신의학

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A clinical study on the complaints between reffered somatizers from medical department and directly visiting ones to psychiatric department / 신경정신의학

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A cultural psychiatric study on tattoos of young Korean males

In 2, 178 tattooed male conscripts in ages of 19-24 years, the most frequent tattoo was a heart mark or a mark of heart and arrow. The Chinese characters which mean "one mind," eagles, dragons, some of 12 zodiacal animals, flowers, and flowers and butterflies or birds were also frequent. The ten Korean symbols of long life and symbols which have been traditionally believed as having evil-repelling powers, for example, blue dragon or white tiger were also found. The frequency of images were different between the provinces with different historical and cultural backgrounds. Data was obtained through interviews with 781 tattooed males. Analysis of the data revealed the following. The prevalence of tattooing was 5.6%. The most prevailing motivation to having tattoos was a contemporary group craze or fashion. Of the 781 tattooed men, 62% had tattoos on their forearms, 34.2% had self-injured scars on their bodies, and 18.6% had criminal convictions. The results of MMPI showed high scores in items of psychopathic deviate and schizophrenia. This suggests that those with tattoos were impulsive, hostile and were prone to delinquent behavior. These results indicate that selection of the image to be tattooed is heavily influenced by inner needs and the cultural background of individuals.

A Clinical Observation of 129 Cases of Intussusception in Infants and Children

A retrospective study of 129 cases of intussusception from January 1972 to July 1977 at Busan Natinal University Hospital was done. Nearly 1,000 cases of intussusception were reported in Korean literatures, but still the causation of this disease is unclear. As the intussusception needs not only urgent diagnosis and treatment, but also it is relatively common during infancy and childhood, we think it will be necessary and worthwhile to analyse our own cases. The results were summarized as follows; 1) In age distribution, 79% of the patients were under 1 year of age and peak incidence was during 6~12months of age. 2) Male was predominant than female and male to female ratio was 2.3 : 1 3) In seasonal incidence, slight prevalence was noted during spring and summer. 4) The cardinal symptoms and signs on admission were revealed as vomitting (66%), abdominal pain, irritability or loud crying(64%), bloody or mucous bloody stool(61%) and abdominal mass(57%). 5) The most common type of intussusception was ileo-colic. 6) In the view of eiology, 96% of cases were idiopathic, but only 4% had organic causes. 7) The 90.8% of intussusception was reduced successfully by barium enema and surgical management with manual reduction or partial segmental resection was performed in only 10.2%. 8) The recurrence and mortality rate were 4% and 1% respectively.