Boo-Chai (1966) reported a case of successful closure of a cleft lip at approximately 390 A.D. in China, although the surgeon's name is not mentioned. Yperman (1295-1351) was a Flemish surgeon who appears to have written the first fully documented description of cleft lip and its surgical repair. He closed the freshened borders of the cleft lip with a triangular needle armed with a twisted wax ...

Results In total, 55 patients participated in this study (45 men and 10 women). The median age was 60 years (range 40–73), median radiation dose 45 Gy (range 40–60) and median follow-up 50 months (range 4–101). The mortality of patients given the combined treatment was 8.6% (one death due to pulmonary embolism and one death due to myocard ischemia), and the five year survival rate was 20.6% for...

MPM is a difficult disease to characterize radiographically because of its diffuse nature and propensity to infiltrate between tissue planes. Although significant information is obtained by CT, MRI, and PET, correlation with intraoperative findings is inconsistent. Overall, CT and MRI are similar in predicting surgical resectability of pleural and chest wall malignancies. MRI has a slight advan...

Background Pneumocephalus is a rare phenomenon that can occur as a complication after operations involving the thoracic discs, following thoracotomy for tumor resection, and after an intracranial operation or cranial trauma. This complication frequently occurs when a tumor is located in the costovertebral angle and an operative intervention creates a tear in the dura resulting in a pleural-dura...

BACKGROUND Oesophageal leiomyomas are usually so easily removed that thoracotomy seems out of proportion and thoracoscopic removal is therefore highly desirable. METHODS Out of a total of 1003 thoracoscopic operations undertaken between July 1991 and December 1996, seven patients underwent thoracoscopic removal of oesophageal leiomyoma. All of them had been preoperatively studied by oesophago...

Pancoast's syndrome due to chronic pneumonia by Pasteurella multocida. J. Ribas, L. Lores, J. Ruiz, V. Ausina, J. Morera. ERS Journals Ltd 1997. ABSTRACT: Infectious causes of Pancoast’s syndrome are extremely rare. We describe the case of a patient with Pancoast’s syndrome due to chronic pneumonia resulting from Pasteurella multocida. The patient was not immunosuppressed and had had no contac...

background: neuroblastoma is the most common tumor in infancy and wilms’ tumor is the most common malignant tumor of kidney in childhood. both the tumors are usually within the differential diagnosis of each other. this study compares the clinical manifestations, sex and age distribution of childhood wilms’ tumor and neuroblastoma at one of tehran children hospitals. materials and methods: the ...

abstract gastrointestinal mesenchymal tumors are a group of tumors originating from the mesenchymal stem cells of the gi tract. digestive tract schwannomas are rare mesenchymal tumors which occur most frequently in the stomach. we report a 56-yearold woman who was examined endoscopically for dyspepsia which she had suffered from since 3 years ago. around gastric antral mass was seen. surgical r...

A 75-year-old man complained of pain and swelling of the right shoulder for 2 months. Plain chest radiography revealed a mass in the right upper lung field and dissolution of several ribs. Bronchoscopic brush cytology showed class V squamous cell carcinoma. The patient was diagnosed with clinical stage IIIA (cT4N0M0) lung cancer. After induction chemoradiotherapy, right upper lobectomy was perf...