AIM OF THE STUDY This study aimed to prospectively investigate the clinical outcomes of curative radical helical tomotherapy (HT) applied to recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) at the bronchial stump site after right pneumonectomy. After right pneumonectomy, the heart shifted right laterally. The chambers of the heart closed with a recurrent mass at the bronchial stump were the right a...

Results A sixty-one year old male presented with a one-day history of severe left chest pain and a five-week history of a nonproductive cough. He had a history of multiple bilateral rib fractures following a motor vehicle accident. He was an exsmoker with no previous asbestos exposure. His respiratory rate was 22/minute with room air oxygen saturation of 95%. He had absent left basal breath sou...

We reinforced the bronchial stump with fascia lata and Gelatin Resorcin Formalin (GRF) glue in a right pneumonectomy. This method was found to be simple and useful. We describe our case and the method herein. A 62-year-old woman had a malignant polypoid lesion which completely occluded the introitus of the right main bronchus and deviated to the introitus of the left main bronchus. Right pneumo...

A bronchial fistula is one of the most serious complications that can occur following pulmonary lobectomy. We herein report a case of bronchial fistula that was successfully treated by endobronchial embolization using an Endobronchial Watanabe Spigot (EWS). A 72-year-old male underwent right lower lobectomy of the lung with nodal dissection for a pulmonary squamous cell carcinoma. A bronchial f...

Endobronchial tuberculosis is defined as a tuberculous infection of the tracheobronchial tree and has a prevalence of up to 50% in active pulmonary tuberculosis cases. The most common complication of endobronchial tuberculosis is bronchial stenosis; benign fistula formation by endobronchial tuberculosis is rare, especially inter-bronchial fistula formation. We reported a rare case of a 73-year-...

In January 2012, a 68-year-old woman underwent laparoscopic partial gastrectomy at our institute, with Roux-en-Y reconstruction for an ulcerated gastrointestinal stromal tumor. The postoperative course was complicated by development of a duodenal stump fistula and subhepatic collection (●" Fig.1). Percutaneous drainage of the collection, as well as percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PT...

Objective Postpancreatectomy hemorrhage (PPH) is an uncommon but serious complication of Whipple surgery. To evaluate the radiologic features associated with late PPH at the first postoperative follow up CT, before bleeding. Materials and Methods To evaluate the radiological features associated with late PPH at the first follow-up CT, two radiologists retrospectively reviewed the initial post...

We report the case of a 64-year-old male patient with graft-enteric fistula. This complication might have been induced by sigmoid colonic ischemia resulting from injury to the mesocolon during abdominal aortic reconstruction. Although sigmoid colonic exteriorization was performed to avoid simultaneous colonic resection, graft-enteric fistula could not be prevented. Two further emergent operatio...

We present a 54-year old man with a pulmonary infectious cavity continuing to a cutaneous fistula. Before he was admitted to our hospital, he had undergone open-window surgery for a left thoracic empyema due to the rupture of pulmonary suppuration of the left upper lobe. He had then undergone thoracoplasty with the plombage of the cavity using left pectoralis major muscle. However, this procedu...

TOPIC: Cardiothoracic Surgery TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: A 79-year-old female status post right lower lobe (RLL) resection one month prior presented with shortness of breath, cough, and fever despite antibiotic therapy. Initial chest CT revealed empyema. Curiously, each administration intrapleural fibrinolytic therapy tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) recombinant...