INTRODUCTION Distal embedded airway foreign bodies can be challenging to manage. Endoscopic retrieval techniques, such as the use of appropriately sized graspers or a Fogarty catheter passed distally to the foreign body and inflated to pull the foreign body proximally, are mainstay. Successful retrieval may become more difficult as foreign bodies become lodged more distally in segmental or subs...

BACKGROUND Double-lumen endobronchial tubes (DLTs) are commonly advanced into the mainstem bronchus either blindly or by fiberoptic bronchoscopic guidance. However, blind advancement may result in misplacement of left-sided DLTs into the right bronchus. Therefore, incidence, risk factors, and blind repositioning techniques for right bronchial misplacement of left-sided DLTs were investigated. ...

An association of systemic amyloid with a squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus is described. Amyloid may be associated with myeloma and neuroendocrine tumours but has not been described in squamous cell carcinoma of the bronchus.

background: the incidence of rudimentary heterotopic uterine horn pregnancy varies from 1:76,000 to 1:140,000. however the incidence of twin pregnancy i.e. intrauterine pregnancy in unicornuate uterus and its associated rudimentary horn pregnancy is estimated to be around 1 in 10 million gestations. case: here, we present 19 year old pramigravida women with acute haemoperitoneum with diagnosis ...

To cite: Goussard P, Gie R, Andronikou S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202017 DESCRIPTION A 17-year-old boy with known severe cerebral palsy presented with cough, fever and shortness of breath. He was a spastic quadriplegic with muscle weakness, severe scoliosis and poor cough which made it difficult for him to clear respiratory secre...

We thank Yurekli et al. [1] for their comment. In our study, we chose to evaluate ventricular function in patients with functionally single-ventricle hearts by echocardiographic analysis of the main systemic pumping chamber without regard to the contractile effects of the diminutive ventricle. We showed that natriuretic peptide levels decreased during the treatment protocol for UVH [2]. This re...

This paper, a contribution to “micro set theory”, is the study promised by the first author in [M4], but improved and extended by work of the second. We use the rudimentarily recursive (set theoretic) functions and the slightly larger collection of gentle functions to develop the theory of provident sets, which are transitive models of PROVI, a very weak subsystem of KP which nevertheless suppo...