An 82-year-old man was admitted due to 1-month history of blood tinged sputum, dyspnea and cough. Night sweats, fevers, weight loss, fatigue and chest pain were not reported at the initial presentation. The patient had a medical history of hypertension that was diagnosed 6 months earlier and this was treated with antihypertensive drug. He is a smoker with a 30-pack-year history and had no famil...

non of the intervertebral disc space, a gas-containing cyst in the epidural space is a rare disease entity. Intervertebral gas can migrate to the epidural space through ruptures in the annulus fibrosus, and it manifests as squeezed air in the herniated disc, as contained air in the pseudocyst that is without a larger amount of disc material, or as free air. There have been several reports about...

Sarcoidosis is a disease of unknown cause that is characterized by the presence of non-caseous granuloma. The diagnosis is made whenever this histological finding occurs in the absence of other known causes. of non-caseating granulomas and whenever compatible clinical and radiographic findings are present. The usual chest radiographic findings in sarcoidosis are (1) bilateral hilar and occasion...

A 48-year-old male smoker presented with a chief complaint of persistent cough for three months. A CT scan revealed only a large right paratracheal mass. The plan was to obtain histological confirmation of suspected lung cancer via bronchoscopy and mediastinoscopy. A whole body 18F-FDG (2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose) PET Scan was ordered for staging and localization of the most accessible bio...

Objective: We describe a rare case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of the trachea in a 47 years old female with paratracheal lymph nodes infiltration and mediastinal extension, who presented with progressive difficulty in breathing. (Rawal Med J 2009;34:115-116).

PURPOSE Pulmonary hydatid cyst, a parasitic disease, is a health care problem in developing countries. In this study, we evaluated outcomes of patients with pulmonary hydatid disease who were treated in our department. METHODS Patients admitted with a pulmonary hydatid cyst from 1981 to 2008 were enrolled in this study. Their demographic data, the sites and number of cysts, diagnostic methods...

Cystic hamartoma refers to rare benign lung tumors. The literature describes 17 cases of this disease. tumor may look like multiple bilateral cysts or a solitary single-chamber multi-chamber cyst large size, which makes it difficult diagnose. disease can be complicated by spontaneous pneumothorax. itself often looks An observation 52-year-old man complaining chest pain and shortness breath is p...

C arbon dioxide (CO2) embolism is a rare but severe complication of laparoscopic surgery. It has been reported during laparoscopic cholecystectomy and hepatic resections. In open hepatic surgery, patients with intrapulmonary or intracardiac arteriovenous communications (i.e., patent foramen ovale [PFO]) are at risk for paradoxical air embolism, as air can pass into the systemic circulation. We ...

A 40 year-old female was examined for complaints of left arm pain and restriction of movement in the left upper extremity for 3 months. Chest X-ray showed a mass in the left upper lung and the patient was evaluated with computed tomography that confirmed the significant mass in the left paratracheal region and also showed small nodules in both of the lungs. A whole-body FDG-PET scan was perform...

BACKGROUND Over the past 15 years, many large university hospitals have reported their experience with percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT). The purposes of this study are to evaluate the safety of PDT in a non-university hospital setting and to compare our results with those published in the literature. METHODS The study was done by retrospective chart review. RESULTS Over a 6-year...