The Cloward Operation of the Cervical and Lumbar Spine / 대한정형외과학회잡지

Anterior cervical interbody fusion and posterior lumbar interbody fusion of the Clowards technique is based on those; 1. removal of the painful disc. 2. stabilization of the unstable joint by interbody fusion. This technique has many advantages compared with the others including followings; 1. very simple technique. 2. low morbidity. 3. rapid recovery. 4. no need of the external support device postoperatively. We operated 5 cervical spines and 2 lumbar ones. This is the report of their follow up study in 2 to 2 years.

Kaposi's Sarcoma with Skeletal Lesion: A case report / 대한정형외과학회잡지

The morphologic unit of the disease process currently referred to as Kaposi's sarcoma consists of a complex growth of vascular channels and mesenchymal cells of various types and in different phases of differentiation. Kaposi's sarcoma, with its characteristic skin lesion, is an entity familiar to the pathologist and dermatologist. This case report represents an unusal bone cortex involvement of Kaposi's sarcoma with skin lesion in a lower extremity, which has survived for 26 years without no specific abnormality in laboratory study and no specific clinical change.

The Lumbar Discogram Incidental to the Operation: Analysis of 35 Cases / 대한정형외과학회잡지

Since the time when the lumbar discogram was used as the clinical diagnostic method for the first time in 1952, many problems have been pointed out to this method, and moreover, in presentday tendencies for the diagnostic method, the lumbar discogram is carried on even useless by majority. One of the important reasons is that so many studies for the lumbar discograms have reported so many false positive lumbar discograms at the high ratio. Hower we found a certain usefulness of the lumbar discogram incidental to the operation. The purposes of our operative lumbar discogram are those; 1) to observe the radiological configuration of the lumbar discogram. 2) to measure the amount of the the dye injected into normal and abnormal lumbar discs, especially in our Koreans. 3) for confirmation of the diagnosis when the myelographic finding is suspicious. 4) for confirmation of the Ievel especially when the number of the possible lesion is more than one. We investigated and analyzed the 35 lumbar discograms of 26 patients and compiled the statistics.