1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 54-year-old lady was admitted with breathlessness since 2 months (NYHA class 3). She was previously diagnosed to have rheumatic heart disease (RHD), but was not on any medications. Her chest radiograph revealed evidence of main pulmonary artery dilatation and unilateral upper lobe venous prominence (cephalisation) on the right side ( fi gure 1A ). Echocardiogram showed part...

Fig. 1. Maximum intensity projection PET images. Axial fused PET/CT images. (A) Initial study. Increased uptake of F-FDG (SUVmax 7.6) in the nodule located in the anterior segment, upper lobe of the left lung (1). Radiotracer uptake in subcarinal adenopathy (SUVmax 9.1) related to tumor involvement (2). Heterogeneous metabolic activity in the left pleura, more intense in the middle posterior re...

Multifocal squamous cell carcinoma in the bronchus of the anterior segment of the right lung and in the subsegmental bronchus of the posterior subsegment of the left upper lobe was diagnosed in a 61-year-old man. The right-sided upper lobectomy followed by Nd:YAG laser photocoagulation of the superficial cancer in the left side resulted in total eradication of the tumor. Subsequent follow-up ex...

A 61-year-old man was referred to our hospital due to hemoptysis. The patient told us that the amount of it needed two pieces of towels to wipe it off. It began a few days ago and continued intermittently. The patient had no medical history of respiratory disease and did not have any anticoagulants. He smoked 30-pack-year. Ground glass opacity was observed in both lungs, but it seemed to be sli...

The aim in this study was to define the pattern of lymph node metastasis according to the primary tumor location. In this retrospective cohort study, each of the operable patients diagnosed with lung cancer was grouped by tumor mass location. The International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer nodal chart with stations and zones, established in 2009, was used to define lymph node levels....

J Postgrad Med 2004;50:75-76 35-year-old female presented with episodes of fever for two months, associated dry cough and non-progressive breathlessness. She had taken antibiotic therapy in the recent past, but without respite. This patient had undergone vaginal hysterectomy for uterine prolapse. There was no tumour in the genital tract. On examination, she was afebrile with normal pulse rate a...

Empyema necessitatis is a rare complication of empyema in which the pleural infection spreads outside of the pleural space to involve the soft tissues of the chest wall. Most cases of empyema necessitatis are related to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and, less commonly, to Actinomyces spp. and Streptococcus spp. Staphylococcus aureus has rarely been reported as the causative agent of empyema necess...

Regional quantitative analysis of airway morphological abnormalities is of great interest in lung disease investigation. Considering that pulmonary lobes are relatively independent functional unit, we develop and test a novel and efficient computerized scheme in this study to automatically and robustly classify the airways into different categories in terms of pulmonary lobe. Given an airway tr...

Methods In a 64y o. male a squamous cell lung cancer was diagnosed in his left upper lobe by bronchoscopic brush biopsy cytology. Stage III.A cT2N2MO. He underwent the neoadjuvant treatment: received six cycles of cisplatin etoposid combination. After the restaging (Stage IBycT2NOMO) we performed a pneumonectomy and the mediastinal blockdissection, because of the involvement of the pulmonary ar...