Detelectatic Bronchiectasis. Lobectomy. Recovery

A Case of Lobectomy for Bronchiectasis

I HE patient was a manl of twenty-three years of age, a poultry assistant by occupation, and he was first admitted to the Forster Green Hospital in 1931. At that time he had a history of cough, a small amount of sputum and repeated hkemoptysis, the largest hwemorrhage being about a pint. Tubercle bacilli were not present in the sputum, and there was no evidence suggestive of tuberculosis on any...

Left pneumonectomy and middle lobectomy for bronchiectasis.

Recovery from Emotion Recognition Impairment after Temporal Lobectomy

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (MTLE) can be associated with emotion recognition impairment that can be particularly severe in patients with early onset seizures (1-3). Whereas, there is growing evidence that memory and language can improve in seizure-free patients after anterior temporal lobectomy (ATL) (4), the effects of surgery on emotional processing are still unknown. We used functional ma...

Left middle lobectomy for bronchiectasis in a patient with Kartagener syndrome: a case report

BACKGROUND Kartagener syndrome (KS) is a rare disorder characterized by the triad of chronic sinusitis, bronchiectasis, and situs inversus. CASE PRESENTATION A 23-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of recurrent cough with purulent expectoration, which had occurred intermittently for the past ten years. During the past 3 years, the episode frequency was 3-4 times per year. He wa...

Thoracoscopic Lobectomy

Increasingly, evidence suggests that thoracoscopic lobectomy can be performed with similar, if not reduced, morbidity and equivalent oncologic outcomes when compared with open lobectomy [1-5]. Despite the potential advantages of minimally invasive surgery, only 20% of pulmonary resections are currently completed in the United States using the thoracoscopic technique [6]. There are still several...