a 16-month-old holstein heifer with a history of anorexia and respiratory distress was referred to the veterinary research and teaching hospital of tehran university. heart and lung sounds were inaudible on the left side but greatly increased on the right side. on electrocardiography (ecg), decreased amplitudes of ecg parameters were observed. ultrasonography results revealed a pleural effusion...

Background: Cytological analyses of effusions or body fluids play an important role in the diagnosis of various lesions. Most importantly it gives a significant contribution in cancer research and staging of various tumors. Most commonly analysed fluids are pleural, ascitic, pericardial and occasionally peritoneal fluid/wash. Materials and Methods: A retrospective study for one year duration fr...

Pleural epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE) is a rare malignancy of vascular-endothelial origin with non-specific symptoms and an unpredictable outcome. Diagnosis of this condition by imaging modalities is challenging, and no standard therapeutic approaches have been established in this regard. In this paper, we described the case of a patient with a low-grade fever, coughing and chest pain ...

The serosal cavity can be involved in many diseases, both benign and malignant. Such involvement is secondary to occurrence of disease at other sites. Lymphoma, although not a very common cause for serous effusion, one the most important one. reason lymphomas has been fully elucidated. These two cases highlight importance pleural peritoneal fluid examination diagnosis lymphoma. There correlatio...

A 60-year-old woman without a history of liver diseases, but with a history of regular alcohol consumption, presented with a right-sided transudative pleural effusion. Neither parenchymal lung lesion nor pleural thickening was seen on a chest computed tomography. On abdominal ultrasonography, the liver size and contour were normal, and ascites was not noted. Despite performing imaging and labor...

background: peritoneal inclusion cyst (pic) is defined as a fluid-filled mesothelial-lined cyst of the pelvis and it is most frequently encountered in women of reproductive age and rarely, they may occur in males. case presentation: a 12 year old boy was referred with a two-day history of abdominal pain. abdominal examination revealed lower abdominal tenderness. laboratory tests were normal. ab...

To assess the prevalence of non-malignant chest x ray abnormalities in cases of mesothelioma 184 cases of mesothelioma (72 pleural and 112 peritoneal) which had occurred in a cohort of asbestos insulation workers followed up since 1967 were studied. Chest x ray films of satisfactory quality, on which the presence or absence of non-malignant radiological changes indicating interstitial pulmonary...

The delicate mesothelial surfaces of the pleural space and other serosal cavities slide relative to each, lubricated by pleural fluid. In the absence of breathing motion, differences between lung and chest wall shape could eventually cause the lungs and chest wall to come into contact. Whether sliding motion keeps lungs and chest wall separated by a continuous liquid layer is not known. To expl...

early detection of free air in the peritoneal cavity is vital in diagnosis of life-threatening emergencies, and can play a significant role in expediting treatment. we present a series of cases in which bedside ultrasound (us) in the emergency department accurately identified evidence of free intra-peritoneal air and echogenic (dirty) free fluid consistent with a surgical final diagnosis of a p...

The current study was designed to analyze safety of the bedside hyperthermic intra-pleural or intra-peritoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) from September 2007 to July 2015. Total of 5,759 times of bedside HIPEC in 985 cases of malignant pleural or peritoneal carcinomatosis were analyzed. Of them, 1,510 times was given to 315 cases of malignant pleural effusion, while 4,249 times was performed in 402 p...