A common trunk of the left pulmonary vein is an anatomical variation in the pulmonary vessels and may be incidentally transected during left upper lobectomy. Difficulty in reconstruction of the left inferior vein often requires completion pneumonectomy. We herein describe a patient with lung cancer in the left upper lobe of the lung. His common trunk of the left pulmonary vein was incidentally ...

We present the case of a 52-year-old man with a history of smoking (30 pack-years) and childhood tuberculosis who complained of left suprascapular mechanical pain of one month’s duration and increasing in spite of analgesic treatment. A chest x-ray showed an opacity in the upper left lobe with loss of volume and areas of emphysema. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the thorax and abdomen showe...

An 82-year-old man was admitted due to 1-month history of blood tinged sputum, dyspnea and cough. Night sweats, fevers, weight loss, fatigue and chest pain were not reported at the initial presentation. The patient had a medical history of hypertension that was diagnosed 6 months earlier and this was treated with antihypertensive drug. He is a smoker with a 30-pack-year history and had no famil...

Ectopic parathyroid adenomas represent a diagnostic challenge, since they are quite rare in clinical practice. We present a case of a 61 years old man with symptomatic hypercalcemia due to an ectopic parathyroid adenoma in the upper-anterior mediastinum that was not localized by the scintigraphy. Ultrasonography identified a nodule on the left upper-superior lobe of the thyroid gland, consisten...

Background & Aims: Tuberculosis is one of the most important causes of mortality in the world and if it is not treated, 50 – 65% of patients would die in five years. Chest X-ray has an important role in the diagnosis of TB and early diagnosis and treatment prevent tuberculosis transmission. In this study we evaluated radiologic manifestations of patients with smear positive pulmonary tubercu...

Congenital lobar emphysema in infants is a disorder that is detected most often in newborns or young infants. We report here the case of a 4-month-old infant who at two months suddenly presented upper respiratory infections, treated symptomatically, but evolution showed shortness of breath, wheezing, weight deficit. Thoracic ultrasound revealed left upper lobe hyperinflation causing mediastinal...

a 36-year-old woman with right upper quadrant abdominal pain since three months previously and no other significant medical history was referred for evaluation of an abdominal mass. upon clinical examination, a large palpable mass in the mid -upper abdominal area was noted. abdominal ultrasound and spiral ct-scan showed a large hepatic mass in the left liver lobe. the patient was referred for t...

BACKGROUND Acute fibrinous and organizing pneumonia (AFOP) is a newly evolving rare non-infectious lung pathology, characterized by intra-alveolar fibrin balls on histology. It is often difficult to diagnose and is usually mistaken for other lung pathologies. We present an interesting case of AFOP with unusual radiologic findings and disease course. CASE REPORT A 56-year-old woman presented wit...

Figure 1. Thorax and abdominal computed tomography of the patient demonstrating bilateral areas of consolidation in the lung parenchyma and multiple infarcts in the left lower lobe of the lungs, in the liver, in the spleen, in the left upper lobe of the left and middle zone of the right kidney, and in some parts of the intestines (arrows).