Effects of trigger point acupuncture treatment on temporomandibular disorders: a preliminary randomized clinical trial.

We compared the effects of trigger point acupuncture with that of sham acupuncture treatments on pain and oral function in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMDs). This 10-week study included 16 volunteers from an acupuncture school with complaints of chronic temporomandibular joint myofascial pain for at least 6 months. The participants were randomized to one of two groups, each receiving five acupuncture treatment sessions.

Analgesic effects of acupuncture on pain after mandibular wisdom tooth extraction.

We evaluated the analgesic effects of acupuncture on postoperative pain by comparing patients who underwent routine tooth extraction alone (control group) and those who underwent tooth extraction in combination with acupuncture (experimental group) by the random allocation method. As teeth easy to extract. requiring no gingival incision (grade A) or those difficult to extract, requiring gingival incision or bone cutting (grade B).

Traumatic cardiac herniation diagnosed by echocardiography and chest CT scanning: report of a case.

A 62-year-old man who had suffered fractures of the left chest wall and hemothorax 1 year earlier was admitted to our hospital with multiple injuries as a result of a traffic accident. Chest drainage was immediately performed under the diagnosis of left hemothorax followed by immobilization of fractures of the femur and radius. On the second day after admission, he suddenly developed severe chest pain and dyspnea after sitting up in bed.

[Lung laceration caused by penetrating chest wall injury in Hanshin & Awaji earthquake: a case report].

A 36-year-old man having a left lower lobe laceration caused by penetrating chest wall injury was operated on 5 hours after Hanshin & Awaji Earthquake. At thoracotomy, significant destruction of the left lower lobe was observed. Therefore, we gave up repairing a lung, and performed left lower lobectomy, with a satisfactory outcome.

[Nineteen multiple primary cancer cases of 100 patients undergoing lung cancer resection].

In our department, half of 100 consecutive lung cancer resection cases were over the age of 70 years. In the same 100 patients, nineteen cases had multiple primary cancers. Sixteen cases had double, two cases had triple, one case had quadruple primary cancers.