Images in cardio-thoracic surgery: Giant thoracic aneurysm with vertebral osteolysis: possible cause of hypercalcemia?

Giant aneurysm of an aortocoronary saphenous bypass graft.

Fig. 1. (A and B) Conventional X-ray images of an 81-year-old man (A: posterior-anter mediastinal mass (arrows). (C and D) CTangiography (C: cross-sectional image; D: mu exceptional aneurysmally enlargement of up to 8 cm in diameter and embedded fr consistent with the diagnosis of a giant partially thrombotic aneurysm of an aortocoron wall thinning presumably from a previous myocardial infarction.

Giant syphilitic aortic aneurysm.

Figure 2: (A) The patient underwent an operation for prosthetic repair of the descending Ao with Uni-Graft K DV 22 mm. Postoperative MRT images of the prosthetic aorta with syphilitic necrosis of Th10 vertebrae (arrow). Ao: aorta. (B) Findings on pathological examination of the excised aortic tissue showed syphilitic aortitis with obliterative endarteritis of the vasa vasorum caused by spiroche...

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...

Mycotic aortic aneurysm as a postsurgical complication: report of a case and review of the literature

Mycotic aneurysms are localized and irreversible dilatations of the arteries caused by weakening and damaging the arterial wall by an invasive organism establishing infective arteritis. Mycotic aneurysm of the thoracic aorta is a rare event; however, it can be fatal if not diagnosed early or not treated appropriately. Clinical findings are usually nonspecific; however, c...

Surgical correction of a giant aneurysm of the left main coronary artery.