Tuberculosis diagnosed by thoracic surgeons

Smartphone applications for thoracic surgeons

Results We’ve found a total of 159 apps; we’ve excluded from our study 85 apps, related to patient education and basic medical knowledge, and 22 apps designed for students. Fifty-two apps were elegible for our study, all of them reporting a medical involvement or a bibliographic support. The topics were online version of journals (10 apps), TNM staging tools (6), risk assessment (5), radiology ...

Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis Masquerading Neoplasm: A Series of Seven Cases Diagnosed by FNAC

Orbital tuberculosis diagnosed by immunohistochemistry: case reports.

PURPOSE To describe three cases of orbital tuberculosis, with their clinical characteristics and respective diagnostic procedures, showing the importance of histopathology for the correct diagnosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Three patients diagnosed and treated for orbital tuberculosis, in the "Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Sao Paulo" during the years of 1999 an...

Traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta diagnosed by transoesophageal echocardiography.

Transoesophageal echocardiography is a safe and rapid means of obtaining anatomical and dynamic information about the descending aorta. It was used to confirm a suspected diagnosis of ruptured descending aorta.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Thoracic paraganglioma diagnosed in a patient with pulmonary tuberculosis -- Case report

Figure 1 (A) Chest radiography: heterogeneous infiltration in the right upper lobe and homogeneous opacity in the left hilar region. (B)--(D) Chest Computed Tomography of the thorax: hypodense mass of 9 cm with well defined margins located in the mediastinum with extension to the left upper lobe, areas of consolidation in the right upper lobe associated with micro-nodular infiltration and groun...