Publications by authors named "ByungChan Jeon"
Introduction: Soldiers are at a higher risk of injury than people of other occupations. To date, no studies have examined the association between injury and personal protective equipment (PPE) use in the Republic of Korea (ROK) military. Thus, this study aimed to investigate possible associations between injury and PPE use in military personnel.
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- * The study analyzed data from 50 patients (out of 129) who received radiation therapy between 1995 and 2009, looking at various outcomes like tumor recurrence and side effects.
- * Findings showed that radiation therapy effectively controls tumors, with no significant differences in efficacy between the two treatment methods, although some patients developed new hormonal issues after treatment.
We investigated an outbreak of Acinetobacter baumannii in an intensive care unit and in the surgery, medicine, neurology, and urology wards of the Kosin University Gospel Hospital in Busan, Korea. The outbreak involved 36 cases of infection by A. baumannii producing the OXA-23 beta-lactamase over an 8-month period and was caused by a single pulsed-field gel electrophoresis clone.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective And Importance: Anterior endoscopic treatment of a huge anterior sacral meningocele, a rare example of spinal dysraphism, is described.
Clinical Presentation: A 43-year-old woman presented with severe headache and fever, increasing abdominal pain, and a several-year history of right lower-extremity radicular pain. She exhibited meningeal irritation signs and Currarino's triad.