A 44-year-old eastern European woman presented to the tuberculosis (TB) service after she had a pre-employment TB screening chest radiograph. The frontal anteroposterior (AP) chest radiograph demonstrated a soft-tissue opacity projected over the lateral aspect of the right hemithorax, with poorly defined lateral margins (Fig 1a). The ancillary lateral chest radiograph demonstrated a welldefined...

Gastric duplications are uncommon developmental abnormality reported to present with different clinical scenarios. We present a 2-1/2-year-old Nigerian female who started having intermittent massive lower gastrointestinal haemorrhage at 5 months of age. She subsequently developed a lower chest wall mass and enterocutaneous fistula. She was found to have gastric duplication with fistulous commun...

conclusions negative pressure inspiration is significantly impaired by an unstable chest wall. restoring mechanical stability of the fractured ribs improves respiratory outcomes similar to baseline values. results a wide variation in the mean inspiratory volumes and peak flows were measured between specimens; however, the effect of a flail chest wall and the subsequent internal fixation of the ...

we report occurrence of a rare case of giant cell tumor (gct), in a 28-year old woman, arising from anterior arc of right 6 th rib during pregnancy. it progressed rapidly during breast-feeding period, mimicking malignant bone tumor at delayed presentation.

Pediatric chest wall abnormalities are defined as any structural abnormality affecting the sternum, ribs, musculature, or thoracic spine, which alters the normal structure or limits the function of the thorax [1]. Of these deformities, pectus excavatum and carinatum are the most common sporadic malformations with both physiologic and psychological implications in patients affected. In some case...

The effect of abrupt coronary artery occlusion on regional left ventricular (LV) function is well known, but serial changes in circumferential regional function over the first few hours have not been extensively investigated. Circumflex coronary artery occlusion was produced in nine closed-chest, conscious dogs and changes in LV circumferential function were assessed using two-dimensional echoc...

musculoskeletal tuberculosis accounts for 1-2% of all types of tuberculosis. tubercular abscess of the chest wall accounts for 1-5% of all cases of musculoskeletal tuberculosis. herein, we report a case of tubercular abscess of the chest wall. the occurrence of caries rib and cold abscess of the chest wall with concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis, and tubercular lympha-denitis of neck and medias...