Oral malignant melanoma of the oral cavity is rare. Although the Asian population has a relatively high incidence of oral malignant melanoma in contrast to Caucasians, the clinical information in Korean has been rarely known. In addition, the clinical and histological classification of oral malignant melanoma has not been established up to now. So we investigated 26 cases of oral malignant melanomas on the basis of clinicopathological and immunohistochemical findings and reclassified the clinical and histological type. The results of this study are as followed. Oral malignant melanomas occurred at any age from 28 years to 73 years and their mean age was 58.6 years. Of 26 cases, 14 occurred in male and 12 in female. Oral malignant melanomas occurred almost in palate and/or maxillary gingiva (25 cases; 96.2%). Only one case occurred in mandibular gigiva. Oral malignant melanomas were clinically divided into macular(9 cases) and nodular type(17 cases), showing that the nodular type occurred more frequently. Oral malignant melanomas were histologically divided into in situ spreading(5 cases), invasive(13 cases), and combined type(8 cases), showing that the invasive type occurred most frequently. All cases showed positivity for S-100 and 15 cases(57.7%) for HMB-45 in immunohistochemical analysis. It was thought these results could provide basic data for the research on oral malignant melanoma in Korean and additional prospective and retrospective studies would be needed in order to find the relations with the prognosis of the patients

Adenoid cystic carcinoma(ACC) is one of the most common malignant tumors of minor salivary glands and can also arise in a variety of sites in the head and neck including the major salivary glands, the esophagus, the lacrimal glands. ACC shows slow but relentless growth, so it shows long-term recurrence. The various reports about prognostic factors which influence the recurrence pattern are introduced but the reports about prognostic factors are rare in Korean adenoid cystic carcinoma patients. We examined 40 ACC patients who finally diagnosed at Department of Oral Pathology, Seoul National University Dental Hospital. Clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical features were reviewed and factors correlated with recurrence and survival were analyzed. The 5-year survival rate of T3,T4 stage was 31.2%, while that of the T1,T2 stage was 88.2%, and the difference 5-year survival and T stage was statistically significant. The rate of local recurrence was 20% and the rate of distant metastasis was 27.5%. Mean recurrence time were 4.8 years and 5.2 years. There was no significant difference between age, sex, T stage, TNM stage, histologic type and recurrence. But the high T stage and the solid type recurred more frequently. There was no significant difference between recurrence rate, 5-year survival rate and Ki-67, MVD expression. But the higher expression of Ki-67, MVD show the higher recurrence rate and the lower 5-year survival rate

초음파 검사는 복강내 장기를 검사하는 대표적인 영상의학검사의 한 분야이며. 혈액검사는 체내 이상 징후를 임상 화학적으로 검사하는 대표적인 방법이다. 지방간의 진단은 주로 복부초음파 검사와 혈액검사를 동시에 실시하여 수행하며 두 검사의 결과를 바탕으로 진단을 하게 된다. 이 경우에 실시하는 혈액검사의 기준은 TBIL, TC, AST, ALT,ALP, GGT, TG, HDL-C, GLU의 값이다. 본 연구에서는 초음파 영상에서 지방간 진단을 받은 환자의 혈액검사 정확성을 분석하여 두 종류의 검사간 정확도를 분석하고자 하였다. 2012년 1월부터 3월간 종합검진으로 복부초음파검사와 혈액검사를 동시에 받은 환자 1350명 중 초음파 검사 상 지방간 판정을 받은 459명을 대상으로 초음파 검사와 혈액검사 결과가 동일한 경우는 459명 중 280명으로 약 60.8% 이며, 초음파 검사와 혈액검사의 결과가 서로 다른 경우는 179명으로 39.2%로 밝혀져 초음파 검사와 혈액검사의 진단 정확도는 60.8% 이었다. 이는 지방간의 초음파 진단시 종사자의 주관적 능력이 병변의 진단에 큰 영향을 미친 것으로 생각되어 지속적인 초음파 임상 교육이 필요할 것으로 사료된다.