Picture 1. Oral tumor and chest computed tomography of the patient. (A). Oral finding on ad mission shows upper gingival tumor with bleeding and ulceration. (B). Computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest revealed multiple tumors in bilateral lung bases. (C). Oral tumor was re duced in size immediately 14 days after methotrexate withdrawal. (D). Chest CT on day 41 after withdrawal of MTX shows ...

: Double-lumen tubes (DLT) and bronchial blockers (BB) are usually used to functionally isolate the lungs during thoracic surgery. However, for patients with tracheal stenosis, management of one lung ventilation (OLV) in anesthesia is still full challenges due mismatching between trachea lumen tube diameter. In past, a small single-lumen (SLT) combined an endobronchial pediatric BB or extralumi...

The case of a 21 year old woman who presented with recurrent sterile meningitis and bitemporal hemianopia is described. Computed tomographic scan showed a large low density ring enhancing lesion above and within the pituitary fossa which at operation and on histological examination was found to be compatible with an abscess. The visual field defect recovered completely and the scan appearances ...

The authors of this work present two patients, diagnosed with lymphoma and prostate cancer, referred to nuclear medicine department for a gallium-67 scan and a bone scan, respectively. The abnormal accumulation of the radioactivity gave rise suspicion for possible other pathologies. Successive computed tomographic imaging revealed that the patients had had Chilaiditi's syndrome. The authors pre...

FIGURE 2. Another view of the computed tomographic scan showing the A 64-year-old white man presented with hemoptysis. He underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) in 1982, followed by a redo-CABG in 1992, which involved a venous graft to his right coronary artery. A chest radiograph revealed a large shadow on the right border of the heart. This was thought to be a lung tumor, because he...

Pulmonary embolism is considered as a great masquerader due to its frequent nonspecific signs and symptoms. Typically pulmonary embolism is under-diagnosed or over-diagnosed. In this study a patient with pulmonary embolism is reported in which the patient exhibited two unusual manifestations namely; right upper quadrant abdominal pain and ST-T elevation in anterior precordial leads. Due to the ...

Correspondence to: Ihsan Yuce, Solakzade Mah. Alvarli Mehmet Efendi Cad. Ozlider Yapı Kop. B Blok 8/28, Palandoken, Erzurum, Turkey Phone: +90 506 282 49 91 Fax: +90 442 236 13 01 e-mail: [email protected] doi:10.5152/eajm.2011.15 Received: December 06, 2010 / Accepted: December 07, 2010 A 10-year-old boy was referred to our department for computed tomography of the thorax because of chron...

A 61-year-old woman with adenocarcinoma of the left upper lobe of the lung and no hilar or mediastinal lymphadenopathy had a video-assisted thoracoscopic left upper lobectomy. A week after operation, the patient developed fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Chest radiograph showed opacified left hemithorax with abnormal air lucency in the upper zone (Fig 1). She was treated for chest infecti...

Chest trauma is classified as blunt or penetrating, with being the cause of most thoracic injuries (90%). The main difference in penetrating opening cavity, created either by stabbing gunshot wounds, which absent chest trauma. Following head and extremities injuries, Blunt are third common injury polytrauma patients. Assessment patients clinical radiographic finding suggestive pneumothorax, rib...

A 47 yr old man was admitted to our hospital because of persisting nonproductive cough, dyspnoea on exer-tion and right-sided chest pain of several weeks duration. He was febrile (37.5°C) and had noticed a weight loss of 5 kg within the last 2 months. The only pertinent medical history was a cluster headache, for which he was treated intermittently with methysergide. He had taken a cumulative d...