Late Complication

A late complication of a diagnostic mediastinoscopy.

A 69-year-old man with a moderately well differentiated squamous-cell carcinoma of the lung, underwent a mediastinoscopy. All histological examinations of the mediastinal nodes were negative. The patient was treated with a curative left pneumonectomy. Three months after this negative mediastinoscopy the patient developed a metastasis in the mediastinoscopy scar. A report of this case and a revi...

Tracheal compression: a late complication of plombage.

DESCRIPTION Plombage, or extrapulmonary thoracoplasty, is the use of exogenous material to treat localised lung pathology. It was initially described by Tuffier as early as 1891. It was introduced in Britain in the late 1940s when the epidemic spread of tuberculosis combined with a lack of antituberculous drugs led to a vogue for surgical procedures to treat pulmonary tuberculosis before the ad...

Oesophageal stricture: a late complication of endoscopy?

Late complication of extended cervical mediastinoscopy.

Can J Surg, Vol. 47, No. 3, June 2004 223 E cervical mediastinoscopy (ECM) is undertaken to examine the invasive stage of primary tumours in the left-upper lobe of the lung and to help diagnose anterior mediastinal lesions. In the literature, few papers deal with ECM; the first on ECM done for diagnostic purposes was a 2002 report by Metin and colleagues on 9 cases. Complications related to the...

Velopharyngeal stenosis, a late complication of radiotherapy.

Choanal stenosis has recently been recognized as a late complication of radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The management of velopharyngeal stenosis is challenging with high risk of restenosis. We report a case of velopharyngeal stenosis post-radiotherapy and illustrated the use of mitomycin-C to prevent restenosis. Mitomycin-C application has being shown useful adjunct to surgical...