Intrathoracic lipomas are rare benign tumors; their behavior is not completely clear and their surgical removal may be challenging. We report a case of a giant right intrathoracic myxoid fusocellular lipoma compressing the lung, tracheobronchial tree, and esophagus which was removed through a posterolateral thoracotomy. Complete removal resulted in resolution of the chest pain and improvement o...

Dear Editor, Oesophageal duplication cysts are rare congenital maldevelopments of the posterior primitive foregut and mostly present in childhood.1 Patients usually present with dysphagia and sometimes chest discomfort. Complete surgical excision is the standard treatment. In this case report, we describe a laparoscopic transperitoneal approach to surgical excision of a duplication cyst of the ...

AIM To analyze patients with Castleman disease who were diagnosed by surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively investigated the postoperative pathological records of operations performed between January 1992 and December 2012 in our hospital. Files of 19 patients with the diagnosis of Castleman disease were analyzed. RESULTS There were 13 male and 6 female patients with a mean age o...

The experience of one regional thoracic surgical unit in managing intrathoracic neural tumours over a 25-year period is presented. Neural tumour was diagnosed in 55 patients, of whom 41 were asymptomatic. In 11 patients complete resection was not achieved--the reasons for this and its effect on the outcome of the patient are discussed. There were 52 posterior mediastinal and three lateral chest...

We report an 82 yr old man with isolated intrathoracic lymphadenopathy of tuberculous origin, which is an extremely uncommon presentation of tuberculosis especially in elderly Caucasian patients. The diagnosis was suggested by the computerized tomographic (CT)-scan showing central hypodense areas after contrast, and was subsequently proved by mediastinoscopic biopsy with histological and microb...