Femoral Nerve Palsy with Patella Fracture

Femoral neuropathy may be associated with various etiologies and can cause severe walking disability. We present the case of a 25-year-old woman who underwent surgical repair for a patella fracture and complained of lower extremity pain, paresthesia, and weakness postoperatively. Electromyography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed partial peripheral neuropathy of the left femoral nerve associated with the patella fracture. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of femoral neuropathy associated with a patella fracture.

A case of protruded subserosal myoma through pelvic floor in pregnancy / 대한산부인과학회지

Myoma is the most common tumor in gynecologic field. As ultrasonography because popular in antenatal care, the more cases of myoma and those adverse effects during pregnancy are more frequently detected. The management of myoma during pregnancy is conservative, but in rare circumstances, surgical intervention including myomectomy may be required. We have experienced a case of protruded subserosal myoma with the uterine cervix in midtrimester of pregnancy. The patient was managed surgically by transvaginal myomectomy and had successfully maintained pregnancy. We report a case of protruded subserosal myoma through pelvic floor in pregnancy with brief review of literatures.

The Change of Articular Cartilage Thickness of the Knee Joint Related to Age in Korean

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to assess the change of the articular cartilage thickness resulting from physiological aging in normal Korean people without any disease in knee joint. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Voluntary participants of 81 cases, physically normal and free from knee joint disease at present or in the past, were chosen for our research program. The subjects were divided into young, middle and old age group respectively for the male and female; and articular cartilage thickness using MRI were measured. RESULT: Each of the three groups reveals the tendency of decrease in the thickness of the knee joint cartilage in all of the age groups along with the increase of the age. The cartilage thickness according to age for both sex, except for the tibial medial condyle, decreased significantly. For the male subjects, the degree of decrease in cartilage thicknes indicates difference in each sections. However, in case of female, the change of articular cartilage thickness in overall sections showed more significantly decreased in young to middle age group than in middle to old age group. CONCLUSION: The results revealed the normal articular cartilage thickness of knee and time that the thickness of articular cartilage was decreased with age. And we could evaluate the severity of degenerative change of articular cartilage by comparison to normal articular cartilage thickness.