BACKGROUND This chapter of the guidelines addresses patients who have particular forms of non-small cell lung cancer that require special considerations. This includes patients with Pancoast tumors, T4N0,1M0 tumors, satellite nodules in the same lobe, synchronous and metachronous multiple primary lung cancers (MPLCs), solitary brain and adrenal metastases, and chest wall involvement. METHODS ...

A 66-year-old male presented with chest pain, malaise, generalized weakness, and weight loss. He had been receiving etanercept injection for rheumatoid arthritis. Chest X-ray revealed a right upper lobe mass. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed a right apical mass, highly suggestive of a Pancoast tumor. The thoracic fluorine-18 fluoro-deoxy-glucose ((18)F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PE...

UNLABELLED Sulcus vocalis is one of the most difficult to treat benign vocal fold pathologies. Ford distinguished three types of sulci: I- superficial, II- vergeture and III- true sulcus vocalis. The aim of the study was to assess the results of surgical treatment in patients with sulcus vocalis. Material of the study consisted of 24 patients with type II (16 subjects) and type III sulcus (8 su...

This article describes a rare clinical presentation of Burkitt’s lymphoma, an aggressive malignancy that presented as anterior mediastinal mass causing Pancoast syndrome in 39-year-old pregnant woman. The patient with respiratory distress, right upper limb monoparesis, significant weight loss, and multiple bilateral axillary cervical lymphadenopathies. Blood tests revealed non-regenerative anem...

An experienced surgeant is able to make a prediction about the malignancy of an ovarium tumour by means of the presented medical information (such as medical images, morphology and demographic features). To support this classiication process, we try to automate the prediction by means of a supervised neural network. A neural network is able to deduce unknown relations from the data by means of ...

BACKGROUND Anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) abnormalities have been implicated consistently in the pathophysiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), yet it remains unclear whether these abnormalities originated during early neurodevelopment. In this study, we examined the ACC sulcal/gyral patterns to investigate whether neurodevelopmental anomalies of the ACC were present in patients with ...