Lung cancer during pregnancy is a rare situation which is being increasingly reported during the past two decades due to a rising trend of cigarette smoking among young women and the tendency to delay pregnancy to a later age in life. We describe the case of a 32-year-old woman with primary pulmonary sarcoma, diagnosed at 31st week of pregnancy. X-ray chest and thoracic magnetic resonance imagi...

Free circulating DNA, which is thought to be derived from the primary tumour, can be detected in the blood of patients with cancer. Detection of genetic and epigenetic alteration in this tumour DNA offers a potential source of development of prognostic and predictive biomarkers for cancer. One such change is DNA methylation of the promotor region of tumour suppressor genes. This causes down reg...

Objectives- to provide a reference anatomy of the bronchial tree of the Jebeer Gazelle by using computed tomographic modality. Design- Experimental study. Animals- Three female Jebeer Gazelle Procedures- Spiral CT images were taken from the thoracic region perpendicular to long axis of the body. CT windows were adjusted as necessary to have optimized images of pulmonary organ. The images ...

Background/Introduction There is a trend to separate Thoracic surgery from the Cardiothoracic surgical divisions. One of the main persuasive argument is the evidence in support of increased resection rate and effective delivery of thoracic surgical services. In such context we reviewed the outcome of thoracic surgical practice in our region where a cardiothoracic surgeon’s service was standard.

Ossification of the ligamentum flavum is a pathologic condition that affects the yellow ligaments mostly in male adults between fifty to sixty years of age. Ossification is more common in the thoracic spine causing slowly progressive myeloradiculopathy. In fact, OLF is so common in East Asian countries that is regarded as a frequent aging pathology in the people of this region (3,10-15,21,22,31...

BACKGROUND Endoscope has been used far less in the spinal region than in the intracranial cavity. One of the reasons is its safety and feasibility has not been established. To evaluate its safety and feasibility, we performed preliminary cadaveric study prior to clinical endoscopic intervention in the thoracic and lumbar spinal canal. METHODS The endoscope that had a directable tip with exter...

Historically it has been shown repeatedly that single high doses of radiation do not allow a therapeutic differential between tumor and critical normal tissues but dose fractionation does. The purpose of conventional dose fractionation is to increase dose to the tumor while preserving normal tissue function. Tumors are generally irradiated with 2Gy dose per fraction delivered daily to a more or...

Chondromyxoid fibroma is an unusual tumour occurring in the metaphysis of long bones. It a locally painful benign cartilaginous lesion with high recurrence rate, not known to undergo malignant transformation. Involvement cranial bones and Sino nasal region by this extremely rare. We present case chondromyxoid young male, arising from septum which very site for tumour.