A 54-year-old woman presented with a 3-month-history of blurred vision and refractory headache. Examination revealed severe bilateral visual acuity compromise, normal campimetry and bilateral papilledema. As a mean to investigate raised intracranial pressure, neuroimaging studies were performed and showed extensive sellar mass (Figure). Patient underwent transsphenoidal approach for resection o...

3000 patients, having undergone fiber - optic bronchoscopy (foli) over 10 years, in our hospital were evaluated. thec aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of lung cancer in iran and their correlation with somking and to study the clinical anil radiological signs in different cancers ami the role of fiber-optic bronchoscopy in their diagnosis and the hazards of this method, 'llxe co...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the influence of morbid obesity on the lung age in women and to correlate with body mass, body mass index (BMI), and ventilatory variables. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study with 72 morbidly obese women and a control group consisting of 37 normal weight women. The subjects performed a pulmonary function test to determine lung age, and the results were correlate...

A 64-year-old man presented with symptoms derived from superior vena cava syndrome and airway stenosis caused by a huge right upper-lobe mass of the lung. Physical examination revealed a large ulcerated mass in the right palatine tonsil. Histological findings of the biopsied specimens obtained from the lung mass and the tonsillar tumor showed small cell carcinoma. Consequently, diagnosis of ext...

Introduction. To report a case of a conjunctival metastasis as the initial manifestation of small cell lung cancer. Methods. Observational case report. Results. A 50-year-old man without known systemic disease developed a conjunctival mass in his right eye. He underwent incisional biopsy of the tumor and systemic evaluation. Histopathologically, the conjunctival mass was a metastatic small cell...

the introduction of ex vivo lung perfusion (evlp) in the practice of lung transplantation has allowed the reconditioning of the marginal grafts and their conversion into transplantable grafts. in addition, evlp can provide a platform for the application of various preventive measures to decrease the incidence of post-transplant complications. while the toronto team targets the attenuation of th...

A patient who had had a lobectomy for a large cavitary lung mass died one month later. An autopsy was performed and pathologic review of surgical and postmortem specimens confirmed that the original lung lesion was metastatic hepatoma. Excavating solitary metastases from primary adenocarcinomas represent the rarest form of cavitary metastatic lesion, and this is the first report of hepatocellul...