Extensive tuberculous infection of the pleura presented radiographically as multiple discrete nodules, without associated effusion or lesions of lung parenchyma.

A rare clinical observation of advanced myeloid sarcoma developed through blast transformation post-polycythemia vera myelofibrosis as extramedullary manifestation acute leukemia affecting larynx, laryngopharynx, trachea, soft tissues the neck, pleura, and skeletal bones is presented.

Abstract Background The nature of opaque lesions such as effusions, atelectasis, masses, and consolidations can be clarified by sonography. This study investigated the sensitivity accuracy ultrasound-guided percutaneous core needle biopsy in different thoracic tumors (lung, pleural, chest wall, mediastinal). Results Sixty patients underwent transthoracic peripheral masses with a Tru-Cut big bor...

Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT) is one of the rare tumours which arise from visceral pleura. Klemperer and Rabin first described SFT as a distinct clinical entity among primary pleural tumoUrs in 1931. Approximately 820 cases have been reported in literature to date. The management of patients with SFT is complete resection of the tumour and follow up of the patient to detect any possible late re...

INTRODUCTION Ectopic thymoma is a rare neoplasm, which can be developed in various sites, with the lung being amongst the rarest. CASE PRESENTATION In this paper, we present the case of a woman with a slow-growing ectopic thymoma, stemming from the visceral pleura of the upper lobe of the left lung anteriorly, extending into the left lung and the cardiac wall, invading the fatty tissue near t...