INTRODUCTION Optimal preoperative treatment of stage IIB (Pancoast)/III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remains undetermined and a subject of controversy. The goal of our study is to confirm feasibility and pathological response rates after induction chemoradiation (CRT) in our community-based treatment center. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients were selected according to functional and resecta...

This report describes a patient who presented with pancoast syndrome, secondary to spindle cell sarcoma of the lung. A 56-year man presented with dyspnea, engorged neck veins and bilateral upper limb pitting edema. The patient also had ptosis and miosis in the right eye. Right ulnar nerve palsy with atrophy of hand muscles was seen. His chest X-ray showed bilateral pleural effusion with an opac...

BACKGROUND The preferred treatment for locally aggressive lung cancers is triple modality therapy with concurrent and induction chemotherapy with radiation therapy followed by surgery. Patients with locally advanced T4 Pancoast tumors with spine involvement, without mediastinal N2 lymph node involvement and without distant metastases, are appropriate candidates for complete resection with subse...

Assisted reproduction is a relatively recent phenomenon. Aside from a few isolated examples, which apparently did not raise legal issues, assisted reproduction did not really come into its own until the practice of artificial insemination became common in the mid-twentieth century. Perhaps the earliest recorded example of a gestational agreement (surrogate mother) took place in biblical times.1...

Suttee, a Hindoo coolie, aged 30 years, came to the cliaritable dispensary, on the 27th March last, to have a large tumour on the left side of his neck removed. It hung above from the lower jaw, occupying the space between the symphisis and angle. The anterior attachment corresponded to the mesial line, extending from under the chin for 5? inches. The posterior edge was attached to the sterno-m...

The genus Primeuchroeus Linsenmaier 1968 is known from the Australian, Oriental, and Afrotropical Regions and numbers 32 species (Bohart, 1988; Kimsey & Bohart, 1991). Three chrysidid specimens collected at the same area in Korea in 2011–2012 belong to the genus Primeuchroeus by having simple mesopleuron lacking scrobal sulcus. According to the key (Bohart 1988), these specimens are identified ...