The MaTu interval (MN)/carbonic anhydrase (CA) IX tumour-associated antigen is a protein that is normally expressed in the gut and belongs to the carbonic anhydrase enzyme family (CA IX). It has been detected in tumour cell lines and in some solid tumours including cervical, oesophageal and clear cell renal carcinoma. This study determined MN/CA IX expression in 65 primary non-small cell lung c...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Microscopic residual disease in the bronchial resection margins after surgical resection of lung cancer is rare, and its clinical significance remains unsettled. We studied the natural history of patients with carcinoma in situ (CIS) at their bronchial resection margins to focus on the issue of stump recurrence. METHODS Eleven individuals who had undergone radical surgery for...

BACKGROUND The Japanese Respiratory Society guidelines propose a differential diagnosis for atypical pneumonia and bacterial pneumonia using a scoring system for the selection of appropriate antibiotic. In order to improve this scoring system, the guidelines are seeking new specific parameter. The purpose of this study was to clarify the pattern of abnormalities with Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneum...

Unilateral Pulmonary Artery Agenesis (UPAA) is a rare congenital anomaly during the 4 th  week of gestational age. It is defined as an absence of pulmonary parenchyma and its supporting artery. A 9-year-old girl was admitted to our hospital because of chronic cough. Chest examination showed a decrement in lung sound of right hemi-thorax with expiratory wheeze. Chest radiography (CXR) revealed a...

MYSIR’s Abstracts 21. EP01: LARGEST CASE SERIES OF FLEXIBLE BRONCHOSCOPY REMOVAL ASPIRATED SCARF PINS 2. EP02: TO COMPARE THE EFFICACY AND DIAGNOSTIC YIELD BRONCHOSCOPIC BIOPSY USING CONVENTIONAL FORCEPS VERSUS 1.1MM CRYOPROBE IN CENTRAL AIRWAY LESION 3. EP03: PREDICTIVE RISK FACTORS FOR PNEUMOTHORAX AFTER FLUOROSCOPIC GUIDED TRANSBRONCHIAL LUNG 4. EP04: BRONCHIAL WASHING BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE...

The appearances in a bronchogram of the more proximal branches of the bronchial tree are well known and have been fully described (Huizinga and Smelt, 1949; Twining and Kerley, 1951; Fischer, 1953; Brock, 1954; Ritvo, 1956). This is not so in regard to the more distal and final branches, and there is, moreover, some confusion as to which structures are outlined by the contrast medium at the per...

KeY wOrds: s ensitization to inhalant allergens is a specific feature of allergic rhinitis. An association between atopy and bronchial hyper-responsiveness was found in patients with allergic rhinitis: namely, exposure to multiple foreign substances increases BHR1 in atopic patients. Recently, interleukin 17A-producing T helper cells have challenged the classic Th1/Th22 paradigm, and have been ...

Measurement ofnonspecific bronchial hyperresponsiveness remains largely a research tool in asthma, and its usefulness in the assessment and management of asthma is poorly defined. We StUdied the relationship of bronchial hyperresponsiveness to the clinical severity of asthma in 54 asthmatic subjects. In order to find out whether measurement of bronchial hyperresponsiveness could be used to pred...