monary venous drainage has been designated the 'scimitar' syndrome because of its typical radiographic appearance of a large, curved venous trunk, usually parallel to the right heart border (Neil et al., I960; Kiely et al., I967). In this condition the right pulmonary veins insert into the inferior vena cava, the right lung is hypoplastic, and the heart is displaced to the right. Usually there ...

The quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect has been recently discovered in an experiment using a thin-film topological insulator with ferromagnetic ordering and strong spin-orbit coupling. Here we investigate the spin degree of freedom of a QAH insulator and uncover the fundamental phenomenon that the edge states exhibit a topologically stable spin texture in the boundary when a chiral-like symmet...

A 51-year-old woman, presenting with increasing dyspnoea on exertion was admitted for surgery of a right sided partial anomalous pulmonary venous return. Contrast enhanced electron-beam tomography (EBT) presented a hypoplastic right lower lobe and confirmed the diagnosis of a so-called scimitar syndrome. Surgery consisted of creation of an atrial septal defect, transposition of the anomalous ve...

Three cases of a congenitally misplaced segment of lung are described. In one case the abnormal segment was identified at thoracotomy; it extended from an origin in the right upper lobe across the midline into the left hemithorax. The remaining two patients, with identical radiographic features, were identified in a review of 24 cases of bronchovascular malformation. In all three patients the c...