Congenital arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) may occur in any organ. Skin AVMs are common, but AVMs of the chest wall or extradural space are uncommon. We report a patient with an extensive AVM that involved skin, chest wall, and extradural space. Definitive treatment of such an AVM is difficult. A 23-year-old man presented with progressive lower extremity weakness. A large cutaneous 'haemangi...

We report a case of a 59 year-old patient in a condition of acute myocardial infarction with ST elevation, in a cardiogenic shock, with multiple cardiac arrests in mechanism of ventricular fibrillation with a significant chest wall deformity caused by Heine-Medin disease in childhood. To our knowledge, this is the first case report of a patient in critical condition with a considerable pectu...

We report here the clinical presentation and successful surgical management of flail chest caused by bite wounds in a toy breed dog. Surgery was decided on, based on physical, radiographic and computed tomography (CT) examination findings which included thorax deformity, inward displacement of the end of a fractured rib and suspected lung injuries. Interfragmentary wiring, basket-weave fashion ...

Removal of the whole sternum for malignant tumor results in a large defect, causing a severe deformity and possible paradoxial movement of the chest wall. Many of thoracoplasty cases after total sternectomy require considerably complicated invasion. Recently, we performed on a patient with chondrosarcoma of the sternum total resection of the sternum including bilateral costal cartilage followed...

primary sternal osteomyelitis is a rare clinical entity generally caused by staphylococcus aureus or pseudomonas aeruginosa.although rare it carries significant morbidity including spread to mediastinal structures and even mortality. diagnosis is generally made on clinical suspicion in a patient with and anterior chest pain and swelling, fever and raised inflammatory markers. management is gene...

Hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease that is endemic in Mediterranean areas, South America, North Africa, Australia, and Iran. Although the liver and lung are the most common involved organs, but the other organs in human body also can be involved by hydatid cyst. Chest wall involvement by hydatid cyst is a rare condition, which may be misdiagnosed as chest wall tumor in the endemic areas. Herei...