RATIONALE The accurate diagnosis and staging of cavitary lung cancer is challenging but essential for the choice of therapy; therefore, the differential diagnosis of cystic pulmonary lesions needs to be elucidated. PATIENT CONCERNS A patient was admitted with multifocal thin-walled cystic lesions in chest computed tomography. DIAGNOSES The patient had been diagnosed as heterogeneous bullous...

BACKGROUND Solitary pulmonary micronodules (SPMN) characteristically have a diameter of 0.1-0.5cm. OBJECTIVE The aim of this prospective study is to evaluate the surgical approach to SPMN in order to establish the most appropriate treatment. METHODS Between January 2007 and June 2011, 146 SPMN patients (94 males and 52 females) were prospectively evaluated. Patients were divided into two gr...

Slow, progressive, and destructive changes in the residual lung after surgery for lung cancer, known as "destroyed lung," are delayed nonrecurrent complications. Destroyed lung can be a difficult condition to treat due to repeated infections and is therefore a complication that should not be ignored. We had three cases of intractable pulmonary aspergillosis difficult to treat associated with de...

Objective: This study was undertaken to assess mortality, complications and major morbidity during the first 30 days after lung cancer surgery and to estimate the significance of presurgical risk factors. Methods: The study was based on all patients referred for surgery for primary lung cancer from 1 January 1987 to 1 September 1999. There were in total 616 patients with primary lung cancer. Th...

Lung cancer became the leading form of cancer in the second half of twentieth century as a result of increased rate of smoking. Lung cancer is responsible for 12.4% of cancer cases and 17.6% of cancer deaths worldwide (Parkin et al., 2005). Non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) constitutes approximately 80-85% of lung cancer cases. Overall five year survival rate of non small cell lung cancer was ...

SA Treatment of lung cancer depends on the stage. Patients with early-stage lung cancer, known as stage 1, still have a very good chance of being cured with surgery alone. Chemotherapy and surgery can potentially cure patients with stage 2 disease. Patients with stage 3 disease can be cured by chemotherapy and radiation, with or without surgery. These modalities are still the standard of care a...

Background: Internal mammary lymph nodes (IMNs) are a potential site of metastasis for breast cancer. Targeting IMNs as part comprehensive regional nodal irradiation comes at the cost higher unwanted doses to critical nearby organs risk. Thus, efficacy and safety different radiotherapy techniques coverage this area remain elusive. Objectives: We present dosimetric comparison between partially w...

ostoperative pain and breathless-ness following lung cancer surgery are important causes of disability. The prospect of such symptoms may influence the decision to proceed with surgery. Incapacitating intercostal neu-ralgia, unlike other surgical pain, often does not go away. Intolerable breathless-ness caused by removing lung tissue from a patient who already has poor lung function can result ...

mobasheri mr * (phd), hejazi a (msc)     department of remote sensing, kntoosi university of technology, tehran, iran     original article   received: 16 jan 2014, accepted: 21 apr 2014       abstract     introduction: air pollution may affect health through increasing respiratory and cardiovascular morbidities and mortalities. in this study, we investigated the correlation between the concentr...

OBJECTIVE The association between lung malignancy and cardiovascular disease has been frequently reported though its therapeutic and prognostic implications not thoroughly analyzed. This study aims at assessing the possible impact of coexisting cardiovascular disease on the outcome of surgical treatment of non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). METHODS Among 247 consecutive patients undergone su...