A 59-year-old man was admitted with hemoptysis for 1 month. Chest X-ray and CT scan showed a foreign body (teeth) at right main bronchus and left central mass (Fig. 1a and b), upon which we suspected lung carcinoma. Bridge prosthesis with three teeth at the orifice of the right main bronchus was removed (Fig. 2) and biopsy taken from the tumoral lesion at left main bronchus revealed epidermoid ...

Topology is an important and major area of mathematics and it can give many relationships between other scientific areas and mathematical models. Recently, many scientists have studied and improved the soft set theory, which is initiated by Molodtsov [27] and easily applied to many problems having uncertainties from social life. The main purpose of this paper, is to introduce more properties of...

OBJECTIVE To describe the clinical characteristics, presentation and management of Pardah pin inhalation in female teenagers of single center in northern India. METHODS This was a prospective cross-sectional study being performed in department of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery of Sher-i-Kashmir institute of medical sciences located in northern India from January 2009 to December 2012. We...

Hospital nursing workers are exposed to occupational chemical risks. This quantitative study aimed to identify what chemical substances nurses have contact with in their activities, what substances cause health problems and what alterations correspond to possible problems caused by the chemical products they mention. A self-administered data collection instrument was answered by 53 nurses, who ...

ABSTRACT The main aim of this paper is to present the methodology and the experimental set-up used to determinate the causes of the gearbox crack of a mill used for powder slaked lime manufacturing. There are presented the equipment used, the methodology of equipment calibration and the realised measurements. At the end there are mentioned the main causes that can develop the gearbox frame coll...

In this paper we consider a method for extraction of alternative names of a concept or a named entity mentioned in a news cluster. The method is based on the structural organization of news clusters and exploits comparison of various contexts of words. The word contexts are used as basis for multiword expression extraction and main entity detection. At the end of cluster processing we obtain gr...

Introduction: Foreign body inhalation in children is not uncommon, and may escape notice by the parents as well as the physicians, because of the lack of knowledge of the exact history and inconclusive radiographical findings. Methods: A retrospective analysis of airway foreign bodies in 132 children (80 males and 52 females) over a period of 20 years was conducted. Rigid bronchoscopy under gen...

BACKGROUND Recently, multi-planar reconstruction of the three-dimensional (3D) spiral chest CT scan has demonstrated superiority in the evaluation of the tracheobronchial tree. The goal of this study was to measure the lengths of the right and left main bronchi and their anteroposterior (AP) and transverse (TR) diameters using the 3D and two-dimensional (2D) images in the same adult respectivel...

BACKGROUND Paediatric tracheobronchial tumours are very rare, and pneumonectomy and lobectomy procedures are rarely indicated due to their surgical difficulties and high sequelae. Bronchoplastic techniques preserving lung parenchyma allow the resection and reconstruction of the main bronchi and carina. CASE PRESENTATION Here, we present a 6-year-old boy suffering from a carcinoid tumour of th...