A previously healthy patient was seen in the Emergency Department for evaluation of a one-month history of cough and one-day history of hemoptysis. A computed tomography scan of the thorax found a mass on the right lower pulmonary lobe and a mass on the left upper lobe. A biopsy specimen of the right lobe lung mass, obtained during bronchoscopy, demonstrated papilloma. This case report, from a ...

Case history: A 69 years old patient was readmitted to the hospital after resection of the left upper lobe of the lung 4 months before because of SqCLC (T1 N0 R0 M0 L1 V1). The patient was ex-smoker (50 py).a year before the diagnosis of lung cancer. He had been farmer and locksmith. At readmission the patient suffered from dyspnoe, chest pain and weight loss. He had medication against cardial ...

reported by several well-known observers which shows that only 7 per cent, were " probably removable." The difficulty in localising cerebral tumours is still very great in spite of recent advances in our knowledge of cerebral anatomy and physiology. If situated in the Rolandic areas, in any of the speech centres, or in the occipital lobes, symptoms are produced which afford great help in locati...

Intrathyroidal parathyroid carcinoma is extremely rare clinical entity with potentially multiple diagnostic pitfalls. We report a case of 40-year-old man presented with classical manifestations of primary hyperparathyroidism, severe hypercalcemia and profoundly increased serum parathyroid hormone level. Neck ultrasonography demonstrated multinodular goiter with predominant 34 mm nodule in left ...

Gerstmann’s syndrome is caused by a left (dominant) inferior parietal lesion, particularly involving the angular gyrus or subjacent white matter of the left hemisphere. We describe case of an 80 year old right handed man admitted to our hospital with history of sudden onset of blurred vision. At first in neurological examination, he had left hemonymus hemianopia and characteristic features of G...

Lung giant cell carcinoma is a specific type of lung carcinoma characteristically associated with a highly aggressive clinical behaviour. This tumour is usually defined as a malignant epithelial tumour with large nuclei, prominent nucleoli and abundant cytoplasm without the features of squamous cell, small cell or adenocarcinoma. Lung giant cell carcinoma, belonging to the group of pleomorphic ...

BACKGROUND Tumor recurrence is the most common cause of treatment failure, especially after complete resection of pathological stage N2 non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In this study, we investigated the clinicopathological characteristics in order to identify independent risk factors for postoperative recurrence. METHODS Between January 2001 and December 2013, 96 patients who underwent su...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to clarify the lobe-specific nodal metastasis and optimal range of mediastinal nodal dissection in lung cancer patients with skip metastasis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 136 patients with pN2/3 disease were treated between 1988 and 2002, and these patients were divided into two groups according to whether skip metastasis was identified or not. We drew...

BACKGROUND To prevent postoperative air leakage after lung segmentectomy, we used two methods for the intersegmental plane: closing it by suturing the pleural edge (pleural closure), or opening it with coverage using polyglycolic acid mesh and fibrin glue (mesh-cover). The preserved forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) of each lobe and the postoperative air leakage were compared betwee...