whole-body 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET) scan revealed 2 isolated hypermetabolic foci in the left upper pulmonary lobe and the left hilum, while the eye lesion was not detected (Figure 3). The patient received a short course of radiotherapy to the right eye. An upper-left lung lobectomy was performed and confirmed a primary adenocarcinoma (2 cm diameter; T1 N2 M1, stage IV). A chemoth...

whole-body 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose PET (FDG-PET) scan revealed 2 isolated hypermetabolic foci in the left upper pulmonary lobe and the left hilum, while the eye lesion was not detected (Figure 3). The patient received a short course of radiotherapy to the right eye. An upper-left lung lobectomy was performed and confirmed a primary adenocarcinoma (2 cm diameter; T1 N2 M1, stage IV). A chemoth...

Rounded atelectasis is an atelectasis of a peripheral part of the lung due to pleural adhesions and fibrosis causing deformation of the lung and bending of some small bronchi. From 1970 to 1986, some 74 patients with rounded atelectasis have been seen at the Lung Department. Sixty-four of these patients had been exposed to asbestos. The lesion was secondary to a benign asbestos pleurisy in nine...

A 63-year old woman diagnosed in September 2001 with a typical bronchial carcinoid of the left upper lobe bronchus extending into the left main stem bronchus is presented. The patient was unsuitable for standard surgical treatment, and the topography was not amenable for a parenchyma-saving bronchoplastic procedure. Two cycles of bronchoscopic photodynamic therapy (PDT) were undertaken at 6 mon...

BACKGROUND The lobar torsion after lung surgery is a rare complication with an incidence of 0.09 to 0.4 %. It may occur after twisting of the bronchovascular pedicle of the remaining lobe after lobectomy, usually on the right side. The 180-degree rotation of the pedicle produces an acute obstruction of the lobar bronchus (atelectasis) and of the lobar vessels as well. Without prompt treatment i...

Pulmonary aspergillomas causing hemoptysis were successfully resected through videothoracoscopy in two cases. We removed an aspergilloma located in the right lower lobe of the lung in a 48-year-old woman with a bronchial cyst and rheumatoid arthritis. We also removed an aspergilloma located in the left upper lobe of the lung in a 59-year-old man with emphysematous bullae and diabetes mellitus. ...

We report a case of pulmonary cryptococcosis in an immunocompromised patient who had focal endobronchial lesions. When we first examined her, she complained of a productive cough that had lasted for two months. Seventeen months prior to this examination, she had been diagnosed with Sjogren syndrome and Sweet syndrome. Since that diagnosis, her condition had been maintained with low-dose prednis...

In recent years reconstitution of bronchial continuity, after simple division or the removal of a circumferential section of the wall, has been the subject of experimental work. On the other hand, clinical observations of bronchial anastomosis in man are still rare. In the course of a difficult resection of the left lower lobe and lingula we accidentally divided the stem bronchus, and acquainta...

A tetrahedral gradient diffusion sequence for body imaging for a 1.5T scanner was implemented, and we compared the quality of images acquired with the new technique and with the conventional orthogonal technique. Image quality was better using the tetrahedral technique in terms of signal homogeneity in the right liver lobe and signal loss artifact in the left lobe, and the technique was conside...

FIG. 1.-Anterior pneumomediastinography in FIG. 2.-Venography showing that shadow is FIG. 5.-Lateral view of a thymic venogram in a case of myasthenia gravis. A soft-tissue the innominate vein; the contrast medium the case of a moderate-sized tumour of left lobe shadow 5 by 2.5 cm. is shown lying behind can be seen draining into superior vena cava. of thymus. The network venous pattern of upper...