Chest wall tuberculosis is a rare entity and its clinical presentation may resemble a pyogenic abscess or chest wall tumor. The role of surgery in the diagnosis and treatment of chest wall tuberculosis is still controversial. During a 6-year period (1997-2002), six cases with cold abscesses of chest wall were managed in our clinic. Clinical presentation, diagnostic workup, treatment strategies,...

abstract background the aim of this study was to evaluate sensitivity and specificity of mediastinal sonography, and compared with ct, in detection of anterior mediastinal neoplasms. materials and methods the sonography with convex probes (5.0 and 7.5 mhz) was done prospectively for 34 patients (from 2 to 25 years old) with mediastinal mass. the results were compared with the results of contras...

A 75-year-old man presented to our hospital with symptoms of fever, abdominal pain, intermittent hematemesis and melena for 2 days. The patient underwent stent-graft placement for a thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) 6 months prior to this presentation. Seven days ago, he suffered from dyspepsia; an upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy indicated a submucosal tumor (Fig. 1A, arrow) in the middle p...