A 60-year-old male patient was admitted to our hospital for recurrent upper quadrant pain for 1 month. He had a past history of coronary artery disease. After admission, he repeatedly suffered from high-grade fever, chills and upper quadrant pain. Computed tomography (CT) showed a round hypodense mass in the left lobe of the liver, approximately 2.7 × 2.2 cm in size, and a fish bone was confirm...

An 83-year-old male smoker with history of COPD on 2L home oxygen presented to the emergency department with worsening dyspnea on exertion. He had a mild dry cough with an 8 lb weight loss over the past month with no change in appetite. He reported no history of fevers or chills. On exam, he was afebrile with stable vital signs. He was speaking in full sentences without distress, and his pulse ...

We report a rare case of primary colloid adenocarcinoma in a 59-year-old woman. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest showed a round, well-defined nodule in the ligulae of the left upper lobe that slowly enlarged over 6 months from 1.0 cm to 1.2 cm. Wedge resection of the left upper lobe was performed to obtain a definitive diagnosis using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Macroscopi...

BACKGROUND Patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations usually complain of dyspnoea upon exertion, fatigue or migraine, or may be asymptomatic. We describe a patient with an unreported manifestation of a pulmonary arteriovenous malformation: a severe chronic cough. CASE PRESENTATION A 51-year old Caucasian non-smoking female police officer presented with a chronic cough. She had been ...

Children interstitial lung (ChILD) disease is a large group of disorders with damage in alveolus and capillary. Although these disorders resemble ILD of adult in nomination, ChILD represents different pathologic and clinical patterns. A 2.5 months old girl, with failure to thrive and grunting and dyspnea, complained of staccato coughs without association with feeding, since she was 15 days o...

a 22-year-old woman presented with acute left-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea 6 days after surgery for revision of the stenotic central aortopulmonary shunt. she had a history of tetralogy of fallot (tof), pulmonary valve stenosis, ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral artery. her waterston shunt was placed when she was 5 years old and stented and re-dilated after...

Having knowledge on models of the bronchial tree branching, is of a special interest for clinical and surgical pulmology, because the hemilobectomy, segmentectomy and subsegmentectomy are always determined by intralobar, intrasegmental and intrasubsegmental bronchial ramification. Investigations were performed on 100 lungs of children and adults of both sexes, one day to 85 years old, randomly ...

We encountered a clinical problem in a young man who presented with a left upper lobe mass and a diffuse reticular-nodular infiltrate. We thought we had appropriately applied Murphy’s Law (the famed bank robber who “went where the money is”), and Ockham’s Razor (the philosopher William of Ockham [1285 to 1349]“Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity”) as we rapidly diagnosed the lung...

Eighteen dogs who survived left lung reimplantation were submitted to repeated lung scans at intervals up to six months postoperation. In five dogs the scans were normal or near normal. The reimplanted lungs in these animals appeared grossly normal and the pulmonary angiogram and microscopic appearance were also normal. The lung scans in eight dogs had diminished perfusion of the left upper lob...