JIBI INKOKA TEMBO
Online ISSN : 1883-6429
Print ISSN : 0386-9687
ISSN-L : 0386-9687
Volume 44, Issue 6
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  • [in Japanese]
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 446-447
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 448-456
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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  • Naoki Kobayashi, Toshinobu Yashiro, Masanori Ishii, Chiharu Sekiguchi
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 457-465
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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    Ocular counterrolling (OCR) is a vestibuloocular reflex originating in the otolith organs, especially in the utricle. We induced OCR in healthy volunteers by tilting the head and body to the right or left and quantitatively analyzed responses using image analysis. We studied the effects on OCR of tasks such as mental arithmetic, exercise in the upper extremities, long-term tilting, and visual field stimulation with random dots.
    Experiment 1 : The subject was fixed to a table and tilted at a constant velocity of 2 to a maximum angle of 60 degrees on the right or left. OCR responses were recorded in subjects who stared at a spot front of them without tasks. OCR responses were then recorded during either mental arithmetic or an exercise in the upper extremities. Mental arithmetic affected OCR and the symmetry of induced OCR was improved during the task. In contrast, exercise in the upper extremities did not affect OCR.
    Experiment 2 : Changes in OCR were monitored in subjects fixed for 20 minutes to a table tilted 45 degrees laterally. During long-term tilting, OCR changed in 1 group of subjects but not in the other.
    Experiment 3 : OCR responses were recorded under visual field stimulation (in the direction of gravity or in the longitudinal direction of the body) in subjects fixed to a table tilting laterally to an angle of 45 degrees. Ocular movements were also recorded under visual field stimulation 45 degrees oblique in subjects on the table without tilting. Visual field stimulation markedly affected OCR. Rotatory eye movements were induced by visual field stimulation alone. It became clear that OCR changes under different conditions because it was easily affected by central and visual input other than the otolith organ.
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  • Kiminori Sato
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 466-470
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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    One of the disadvantages of the microresector in endoscopic sinus surgery is that histopathological specimens cannot be taken. We conducted histopathological examination in endoscopic surgery with a microresector in 6 cases of chronic sinusitis with nasal polyp, 1 of nasal cavity squamous cell papilloma, and 1 of adenoid vegetation. A Sheehy pate collector® (Otomed) was interposed between suction tubes from the microresector (Xomed).
    1) This made it possible to collect histopathological specimens continuously and completely with-out interrupting endoscopic surgery. 2) Specimens collected were not destroyed and were viable for accurate histopathological examination. 3) This method was useful in endoscopic surgery using the microresector.
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  • FOR OBSERVATION OF THE WHITE BIRCH
    Shinji Nishizawa
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 471-475
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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    To forecast the first day of white birch (Betula platyphylla var Japonica) pollen release without tools, we examined the daily growth of leaves in addition to observing the trees at a distance, e.g. from a car or bus. Release began 3 days after leaves could be identified from sprouts. It also began when twigs or the joints of male flowers disappeared due to the growth of leaves, or spaces between leaves or twigs were filled with grown leaves. No indicator for the release was found 3 days before release even when the tress were observed at a distance. Therefore, observing the growth of leaves will enable anyone to forecast the release 3 days in advance.
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  • Go Hasegawa, Yasuo Ogawa, Akihide Ichimura, Kotaro Muto, [in Japanese] ...
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 476-480
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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    Pleomorphic adenomas arise most frequently from the parotid glands, with most seen in major salivary glands. Their appearance in minor salivary glands is relatively rare. We report 2 cases of pleomorphic adenoma arising in the minor salivary glands of the palate.
    Case 1 was a 62-year-old woman and case 2 a 50-year-old man. They had reported a mass in the left side of the palate. Both underwent a surgical resection under general anesthesia. Their postoperative courses were uneventful, with no sign of tumor recurrence.
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  • Ayako Ishii, Hiromi Kojima, Hidemi Miyazaki, Yukie Mitani, Atsushi Hat ...
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 481-486
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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    We summarize a case of middle-ear/nasopharyngeal tuberculosis. A 31-year-old woman was diagnosed with inflammation of the external auditory meatus and treated for left-ear otorrhea by a local physician did not improve and she experienced dizziness during the clinical course, indicating possible middle-ear cholesteatoma. When she was referred to us, initial intraaural findings suggested middle-ear tuberculosis. Repeated bacteriological and pathological examinations resulted in a diagnosis of middle-ear tuberculosis. Tubercle vacilli were detected in a tumorous lesion found in the nasopharynx. Combined multidrug therapy with antituberculosis drugs improved middle-ear and nasopharyngeal findings and hearing. In refractory otitis media, therefore necessary to consider this disease and conduct repeated bacteriological testing.
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  • [in Japanese], [in Japanese]
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 487-490
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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  • [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese]
    2001 Volume 44 Issue 6 Pages 491-493
    Published: December 15, 2001
    Released on J-STAGE: March 18, 2011
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