Delayed Thoracic Radiation Injury

Video-assisted thoracoscopy in thoracic injury: early or delayed indication?

The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic role and therapeutic effectiveness of videothoracoscopy in chest trauma. Between 1st January 1993 and 30th September 2003, 112 traumatized patients underwent a videothoracoscopy. The origin of trauma was different: 60 road accidents, 42 accidental falls, 7 knife wounds and 3 firearm wounds. Seventy-six patients presented hemothorax, 21 hemopn...

A Case of Delayed Radiation Myelopathy of the Thoracic Vertebrae Following Low Dose Radiation Therapy for Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

Delayed radiation myelopathy (DRM) is a rare disorder that rapidly leads to disabilities, and the median incubation period was reported to be about 2 years (from 6 months to a few years). In this report, we describe a 61-year-old woman who presented with rapid progressive numbness and weakness in both legs 22 months after palliative radiation therapy with 39 Gy in 3 Gy fractions. She was diagno...

Early-delayed radiation rhombencephalopathy.

A 37-year-old woman developed an early-delayed rhombencephalopathy 7 weeks after completing a course of radiotherapy to a glomus jugulare tumour. The clinical features, comprising nystagmus, skew strabismus, unilateral facial weakness, dysarthria and ataxia, are compared with four previously reported patients with this syndrome.

Traumatic Thoracic Aortic Injury

T raumatic blunt injury to the thoracic aorta is a devastating condition that can lead to immediate death at the time of injury in the majority of cases, due in part to either aortic transection or acute rupture.1 Although blunt aortic injury accounts for fewer than 1% of all adult level I trauma center admissions, this condition represents the second most common cause of death due to blunt inj...

Thoracic Trauma: Esophageal Injury