Background. Thoracotomy is one of the hardest surgical incisions to deal with and easy leading to atelectasis or pneumonia. Investigation of minimally invasive techniques has been the major concern for surgeons. To explore the feasibility of local anesthesia in thoracotomy including minithoracotomy and Video-Assistant Thoracic Surgery (VATS) for diagnosis and treatment of Pleura-pulmonary disea...

Pleural involvement in systemic diseases is usually a sign of lesions occurring at other levels. Despite the low incidence (around 1%) of pleural effusions caused by systemic diseases, more often connective tissue diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or systemic lupus erythematosus, may present with this. Similarly, vasculitis, such as Wegener's granulomatosis, Churg-Strauss syndrome, or less...

Primary mesothelioma of the pleura is a controversial entity referring to a growth originating from the mesothelium, the cell layer covering the inner surface of the pleural, pericardial and peritoneal cavities which are derived from the celomic space of the embryo. Willis1 denies their existence entirely and considers isolated masses of the pleura as rnetastatic deposits of some distant asympt...

Single-injection paravertebral block offers adequate unilateral analgesia for thoracic and upper abdominal surgery. This technique is easy to learn but there is a risk, albeit low, of pleural puncture. The aim of the study was to determine whether sonographic measurements of the distances from the skin to the transverse process and to the parietal pleura are useful for calculating the required ...

Solitary fibrous tumour of pleura (SFTP) is a rare tumor contributing to less than 5% of all pleural tumours and about 10% 30% of these tumours show features of malignancy. Occurrence of hypoglycaemia with solitary fibrous tumour is an unusual paraneoplastic syndrome designated as Doege-Potter syndrome which can occur both in benign and malignant tumours. Very few cases of solitary fibrous tumo...