Thoracic neoplasms

Radiotherapy in thoracic neoplasms.

Analysis of giant thoracic neoplasms: Correlations between imaging, pathology and surgical management

BACKGROUND A giant thoracic neoplasm is extremely rare and poorly understood. Our systemic study introduced computed tomography angiography (CTA) with three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction imaging and evaluated correlations between imaging, pathology, and surgical management. METHODS Data from 45 patients undergoing surgery for giant thoracic neoplasm in our institution between May 2007 and N...

Histomorphological and Immunohistochemical Analysis of Pleural Neoplasms

Background & objective:Primary pleural neoplasms are rare entities compared with the pleural involvement by metastatic carcinoma. The current study aimed at investigating the complete spectrum of pleural neoplasms and differentiating between them with the aid of immunohistochemistry (IHC). Methods: Consecutive pleu...

Anterior Cervical Incision and Thoracotomy for Cervico-thoracic, Thoracic, and Thoracolumbar Spine Surgery: A Clinical Series

Introduction:Surgical treatment of diseases in cervicothoracic, thoracic and thoracolumbar regions can be a challenging issue. Cooperation of the thoracic surgeons and spine surgeons can improve the outcomes and decrease the complications of patients who underwent these approaches.Materials & Methods: The participants of this study consisted of seventeenpatients suffering from different types o...

Cutaneous Neoplasms

book, and he has produced a valuable volume on neoplasms of the skin. Although consideration of malignant conditions occupy the greater part of this volume benign neoplasms also receive their due amount of attention. The book is copiously illustrated by excellent photographs and on the whole is clearly written, but we are sorry to see that the author talks of ' tubercular' skin lesions, when re...