To cite: Neelakantan S, Anandarajan R, Swamy AK, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016216551 DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old man presented with cough and haemoptysis of 3-week duration. Screening chest radiograph revealed a veil-like homogenous opacity over the left lung field extending out from the hilum and fading out inferiorly. The aortic knuck...

Sclerosing hemangioma of the lung is extremely rare.  Herein, a case of sclerosing hemangioma of the lung in a 44-year-old woman is reported.  On admission, the patient complained of pain in the left lower neck and upper chest.  Chest x-ray revealed a mass in lingular lobe of the left lung.  The patient underwent surgery and a mass was removed through left posterolateral thoracotomy.  Pathologi...

A 21-year-old man with a history of bronchial asthma during childhood presented with left recurrent pneumothorax. Chest x-ray showed collapse of the left lung. Computed tomography showed hyperlucency and some bullae in the left upper lobe. Thoracoscopic bullectomy and pleurodesis were performed. Pneumothorax recurred twice, for which thoracoscopic bullectomy and pleurodesis were performed. Duri...

Ann Cardiothorac Surg 2014;3(2):197-201 www.annalscts.com With continued growing interest in sublobar resections from the international surgical community (1,2), mastering thoracoscopic segmentectomy is an important challenge for the surgeon. With respect to sublobar resections of the left upper lobe, it is now considered that for T1 tumors, a lingual-sparing upper lobectomy is oncologically eq...

sclerosing hemangioma of the lung is extremely rare.  herein, a case of sclerosing hemangioma of the lung in a 44-year-old woman is reported.  on admission, the patient complained of pain in the left lower neck and upper chest.  chest x-ray revealed a mass in lingular lobe of the left lung.  the patient underwent surgery and a mass was removed through left posterolateral thoracotomy.  pathologi...

Enhanced computed tomography screening protocols have recently identified increasing numbers of small lung tumors in patients with high surgical risks (1). Consequently there has been increasing interest in minimally invasive surgical approaches, including thoracoscopic approaches, parenchyma-sparing resection, and less invasive anesthesia for management of lung tumors (2) . The role of thoraco...

A 45-year-old man presented with a six-month history of progressive dyspnea with productive cough and wheezing. The patient was a heavy smoker and had a history of tongue cancer, hypertension, and asthma. Chest X-ray and computed tomography showed a mass lesion in the left hilar region and total collapse of the upper left lobe of the lung. Bronchoscopy revealed a whitish solid tumor obstructing...

tocele in the left upper lobe. A linear air pocket in the soft tissue of the left upper hemithorax was also noted ( fig. 1 c). CT revealed a 15 ! 6 cm cavitary lesion in the left upper lobe extending and communicating with the chest wall through a fistulous tract without pneumothorax or mediastinal emphysema ( fig. 2 ). The subcutaneous air pocket had been noted on the patient’s examination 4 y...

in 6 cases (j), the upper lobe in 5 (k), the middle lobe in 1 (Z), and the lower lobe in 4 cases (m). In the case of the left lung, the upper lobe was hepatized in 4 (?), and the lower in 5 eases (o). (f) Emphysema existed in 3 right lungs (p) and 5 left lungs (q). TotalS. (g) Tubercle existed in 4 right (r) and 3 left lungs (s). Total 7, and tuberculous cavities in the same number. (h) One rig...