a three day old neonate was referred to our department with a problem of a sternal cleft. sternal clefts are often associated with a myriad of other abnormalities ranging from mild to severe. we present our experience with such a problem, and review the current literature concerning it.

background and objective: mediastinal masses in children are a heterogenous group of asymptomatic potentially life-threatening congenital, infectious, or neoplastic lesions that present complex diagnostic and therapeutic dilemmas. materials and methods: the clinical and laboratory features of 65 patients who had open biopsies in ali-asghar hospital over 11 years were reviewed. results: seventy-...

osteosarcoma (osteogenic sarcoma: os) is the most common primary malignant bone tumor of long bones, whereas primary osteosarcoma of chest wall, especially in sternum, is extremely rare. we report a 57-year-old man with an immobile slow growing mass located in the middle of the sternum. the patient had no significant pain or tenderness and the past medical history was not remarkable. ct-scan sh...

BACKGROUND The effect of chest wall tumours on chest wall mechanics is uncertain even less is known about the effects of resection and reconstruction. Our aim is to study how chest wall mechanics are altered in chest wall sarcoma and to determine the effect of chest wall reconstruction on chest wall kinetics. CASE PRESENTATION Using Optoelectronic Plethysmography (OEP), total and regional che...

over the right chest wall, not obviously associated with any clinical abnormality. Ten days after admission, oedema of the face became apparent. Emination revealed a swollen right arm, a much enlarged and tender right breast, associated with dilated veins in the chest wall, and non-pulsatile distension of the neck veins. A diagnosis of superior vena caval obstruction was made. The liver was enl...

We studied the pulmonary function and chest x-ray films of 20 nonsmokers with idiopathic prolapse of the mitral valve. Forty-five percent of these patients complained of dyspnea. Of the 16 chest films reviewed, 44 percent had radiographic evidence of pectus excavatum and 25 percent thoracic scoliosis. The most common pulmonary function abnormalities were increased residual volume (63 percent) a...

background hydatidosis is an infectious disease resulting from the development of the larval form of the parasite echinococcus granulosus in humans. the invasion of the chest wall by echinococcosis is rarely described. methods the current study reported all cases of chest wall hydatidosis treated in the department of cardiothoracic surgery from january 1990 to december 2011. results the mean ag...

We report an atypical case of the Poland anomaly. Unreported features are that the hand abnormality is on the contralateral side to the chest wall defect, there is an ulnar ray predominance, and lack of syndactyly.

bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma with subcutaneous chest wall metastasis is a very rare presentation. a case of 36- year-old male with metastatic subcutaneous chest nodule of bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma, diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology, is reported here. cutaneous metastases are of diagnostic importance because they may be the first manifestation of an undiscovered internal malignan...

Low-energy blunt chest trauma can cause commotio cordis and ventricular fibrillation (VF) in otherwise healthy young individuals. If the chest wall impact occurs during a narrow vulnerable window of ventricular repolarization, the generated premature ventricular impulse can lead to VF and sudden death. Atrial fibrillation (AF) in association with a blunt chest trauma has not yet been reported i...