We report a case of pulmonary sarcoidosis, which initially presented as a left apical infiltrate. The later course mimicked a pulmonary neoplasm, with left upper lobe atelectasis secondary to bronchial stenosis, resulting from both endobronchial sarcoidosis and extrinsic compression by enlarged lymph nodes. Extrinsic pressure from sarcoid nodes on the left main pulmonary artery and recurrent la...

A 53 year old man presented with massive haemoptysis, and chest radiography revealed a left suprahilar mass. At thoracotomy he was found to have a modular mass in the left upper lobe, which was attached to a peripheral bronchus. Histology confirmed a pulmonary hamartoma.

Myelolipoma is a rare tumor composed of fat and bone marrow components, most of which are located in the adrenal gland. Myelolipoma in the liver is extremely rare. To date, only 10 cases have been reported in the English-language medical literature. In one of these cases, the hepatic myelolipoma was found within a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). In the present study, we report the first case of...

The patient was a 50-year-old male psychiatrist with a history of smoking 3 packs of cigarettes per day for 30 years. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed a nodular shadow in the left S6 segment in April 2002, for which thoracoscopic partial resection of the lung was performed. Because adenocarcinoma was diagnosed by intraoperative frozen sectioning, a left lower lobectomy and lymph node disse...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the role of video-assisted thoracoscopy in the diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung diseases. METHODS The medical charts of patients suspected of having diffuse parenchymal lung disease were retrospectively reviewed, as were the results of the anatomopathological examination of lung biopsy specimens collected through video-assisted thoracoscopy. RESULTS Of the 48 pati...

Fig. 1. (a and b) A 58-year-old male patient with a lung cancer located at the mainstem bronchi level without carinal invasion, with limited pulmonary functions had a right upper sleeve lobectomy and en bloc segmentectomy to lower lobe superior segment. After completion of the anastomosis, tension occurred and occluded the drainage in lower lobe pulmonary vein. Under this condition, either lowe...

Case 1 A 22-year-old aboriginal woman presented with a 12-week history of fever, night sweats, weight loss and productive cough. She had no history of lung disease or any condition known to compromise immune function. Plain chest radiography revealed consolidation and moderate volume loss in the left upper lobe of the lung, with at least 2 cavities at the apex, the largest measuring 4–5 cm in d...

A teratoma in a young West Indian of Negro race is reported. The teratoma presented radiologically in the left upper lobe as an ill-defined shadow which contained a crescent-shaped translucent area and simulated a mycetoma. In addition, the left lung showed widespread nodular shadows. The left lung was resected and the teratoma was found to be endobronchial in position. This is a very rare site...

Primary pulmonary cryptococcosis is difficult to diagnose because the symptoms and radiologic findings are non-specific. Further, pulmonary cryptococcal infections are extremely rare in individuals with normal immunity. This case report describes a case of primary pulmonary cryptococcosis in an immunocompetent individual who presented with left upper lobe collapse due to endobronchial occlusion.