The healing process of bronchial wound was compared among wrapping tissues such as pedicled omentum, pericardium, and parietal pleura in terms of the degrees of revascularization of the bronchial artery interrupted by bronchoplasty itself by microangiography, including the circumstances of performing a procedure of esophagectomy. The development of neovascularity was marked and facilitated by o...

Solitary fibrous tumors of the pleura are uncommon and mainly arise in the pleura itself. Such tumors are generally asymptomatic and slow-growing. We report a series of 10 cases (8 men and 2 women with a mean age of 58.6 years) treated over a period of 54 months. The tumors were classified histologically as benign or malignant according to the criteria used by England. The treatment of choice w...

The authors report a case of a localized fibrous tumour of the pleura with huge proportions of 26 x 14 x 12 cm and 1.25 Kgr of weight, in a 56 year old female patient. The tumour occupied practically the inferior 2/3 of the right pulmonary field and had an unusual insertion in the diaphragmatic parietal pleura. It was non pediculous and had histological features of malignancy. The diagnosis of ...

In vivo determination of 3-D and dynamic geometries of alveolar structures with adequate resolution is essential for developing numerical models of the lung. A thorax window is prepared in anesthetized rabbits by removal of muscle tissue between the third and fourth rib without harming the parietal pleura. The transparent parietal pleura allows contact-free imaging by intravital microscopy (IVM...

Benign tumors of the lung and pleura encompass a wide variety of epithelial and nonepithelial tumors that have an excellent prognosis in general. Many of these lesions are discovered incidentally in chest radiographs carried out for other reasons, most being asymptomatic at the time of presentation. Such benign tumors can occasionally produce symptoms related to bronchial obstruction (e.g., bro...

Pleural effusion is a commonly encountered medical problem. Its clinical and radiological features often fail to identify the underlying cause. Pleural fluid aspiration and needle biopsy of pleura are initial diagnostic procedures to ascertain the aetiology of effusion. Both these procedures are performed under local anaesthesia and cariy a low risk of complication. Being a blind procedure, ade...

Malignant mesenchymomas are rare soft tissue tumors of mesenchymal origin. We report a case of pleural localization with liposarcomatous, leiomyosarcomatous and osteocartilaginous elements. The treatment associated surgical resection, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Sixteen months after the diagnosis a metastatic retroperitoneal sarcoma with osteosarcomatous differentiation appeared without any ...

A survey of 610 pleural mesotheliomas disclosed 40 familial cases. The diagnosis was histologically based in 39 cases, and confirmed by necropsy in 30. Occupational data were collected from the patients or from their relatives by personal interviews. Routine lung sections were examined for asbestos bodies in 32 cases. In 15 cases asbestos bodies were isolated after chemical digestion of lung ti...

Pleural secondaries are a frequent finding at necropsy in cases of carcinomatosis, and their presence is of such prognostic significance that much effort has been made in the field of diagnostic cytology as applied to the examination of serous effusions (Foot, 1954; Luse and Reagan, 1954a and b; Papanicolaou, 1954; Leuallen and Carr, 1955; Foot, 1956; Myerson, 1956). The relevant literature has...