Digital Object Identifier: 10.1188/03.CJON.697-698 Mr. M is a 75-year-old man recently diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The first two courses of chemotherapy were administered without problems, and Mr. M said he was feeling well enough to continue the remodeling of his home. While undergoing his third course of chemotherapy, he returned to the outpatient clinic with neutropenia, fev...

OBJECTIVES To describe haemorrhagic pleural effusion as a rare complication of brucellosis that finally needed lung decortication. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 37-year-old female presented with a 1-week history of fever, dry cough and pleuritic chest pain. Physical examination showed signs of right pleural effusion and hepatosplenomegaly. Complete blood count showed pancytopenia, ...

BACKGROUND The clinical value of computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the chest in the initial assessment of sarcoidosis was investigated. METHODS One hundred consecutive patients referred to the sarcoidosis outpatient services of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York from 1990 to 1992 with a presumptive diagnosis of sarcoidosis were studied. The diagnosis was subsequently confirmed in al...

Pilomatrix carcinoma is a rare locally aggressive hair-follicle tumor. We report a 54-year-old man who presented with a tumor in the left flank that was found by skin biopsy to be pilomatrix carcinoma. A contrast-enhanced computed tomographic scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis showed multiple small nodules in both lungs and lymphadenopathy in the abdomen. Video-assisted thoracoscopic biopsy...

A 42-year-old male presented in June of 2011 with nocturnal fevers, night sweats, an 8-kg weight loss, and a cutaneous right chest wall mass. In March of 2013, a computed tomographic scan of the thorax showed a 54 × 18 × 26-mm right lower lobe mass with peripheral calcifications, and in May of 2013, he was admitted for a segmental lobectomy, in which histologic examination of the pulmonary tiss...

A 60-year-old Japanese man was found to have diffuse pneumonia-like shadow in the left S10 segment on chest computed tomographic scan. Transbronchial lung biopsy yielded a pathological diagnosis of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma; subsequently, left lower lobectomy was performed. Histopathological analysis showed that the tumor consisted solely of discohesive cells with involvement of the ...

A 56 yr old nonsmoking woman was admitted to hospital in 1985 with left sided chest pain and weight loss. She had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis 35 yrs previously. An extrapleural therapeutic pneumothorax had been performed at that time and was complicated several years later by chronic pyothorax. On admission in 1985, she had no dyspnoea or cough. Physical examination showed decreased bre...