Proton beam therapy is a common type of radiation treatment that delivers proton particles to treat cancer and minimize damage nearby healthy tissue. In this paper, we describe case 20-year-old male patient with osteosarcoma the distal right femur eventually metastasized his thoracic cavity. The underwent was directed at left thorax nine months later presented clinical radiographic findings del...

Rats were drowned in fresh water collected from a river, and kept immersed in the water for four weeks in separate bottles. When five rats were placed outside in the shade, where the temperature varied from 1 to 9°C, carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) saturations in the blood and thoracic cavity fluid were not more than 1% and 10% respectively. When fifteen rats were immersed at S-9°C, HbCO saturations i...

Plombage, a variant of collapse therapy for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis that uses a variety of foreign materials, was undertaken until the 1950s before the invention of effective antimicrobial therapy. Complications related to previous plombage procedures are not uncommon. Management of these complications can be challenging. We report a patient presenting with extrusion of plombage 59...

A surgical fire is a serious complication not previously described in the literature with regard to the thoracic cavity. We report a case in which an intrathoracic fire developed following an air leak combined with high pressure oxygen ventilation in a patient with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The patient presented to our institution with diffuse coronary artery disease and ang...

Cardiovascular surgery in the setting of chest wall deformities is a clinical challenge. Pectus excavatum, for example, can cause heart displacement to the left thoracic cavity, following the poor operative field. This report highlights a case in which a successful aortic valve-sparing operation via conventional median sternotomy after correction of the heart displacement due to pectus excavatu...

The authors report a case of thoracic splenosis, which is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue into the pleural cavity. Splenosis in the chest is a rare entity and most often an incidental finding on chest computed tomography, typically showing solitary or multiple well-defined, noncalcified pleural nodules of variable size in the left hemithorax. It is important to include this benign pat...

We found calcified pulmonary nodules in a middle-aged female mummy discovered from 350-yr-old Joseon tomb of Korea. In the CT scan, we found six radiopaque nodules in right lung, through the levels of thoracic vertebrae 1 to 6. We also found presumptive pleural adhesions in right thoracic cavity of CT images. We re-confirmed radiological findings by our post-factum dissection on the same mummy....

Schwannoma is a well-encapsulated benign tumor that originates from Schwann cells. Prognosis and progress are excellent, and recurrence of the tumor is sometimes reported after surgical resection . Intrathoracic extrapulmonary schannoma is extremely rare that had grown and bulging inside the thoracic cavity from the lateral chest wall ). Usually, intrathoracic Schwannoma is a found in the poste...