BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) are effective against lung adenocarcinoma. However, limited data is available assessing the effectiveness of EGFR-TKI use in preventing re-accumulation of MPE. To our knowledge, there is no literature on comparison of talc pleurodesis with EGFR-TKIs alone on re-accumulation of MPE in Asian populatio...

Background: Thoracic deformity after costal cartilage harvesting is a poorly reported complication in current literature. Several authors reconstruct an ear using 3 or 4 costal cartilages. This method produces various chest wall deformities. There is no description of an analysis of thoracic deformity as a sequel in patients who underwent autologous auricular reconstruction based on a clinical ...

BACKGROUND Agenesis of the lung, a rare congenital anomaly, arises or develops when there is disruption of evolution of the primitive lung bud, leading to complete absence of the lung, bronchi, and the main pulmonary artery. With right-sided agenesis, a variety of cardiac and other congenital malformations are more commonly seen, leading to a poor prognosis. CASE REPORT A young female, aged 1...

BACKGROUND Mature teratomas are the most common histological type of germ cell tumors. CASE PRESENTATION A 14-year-old boy was referred to our hospital with a giant mature teratoma occupying the entire right hemithorax compressed the superior vena cava (SVC) and total atelectasis of the right lung. He was misdiagnosed as malignant teratoma by a fine-needle biopsy in a hospital. After 4-cycle ...

CASE REPORT A 70 year old male pedestrian was struck by a fast moving motor vehicle. On arrival at a local community hospital he was haemodynamically stable with blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rate all within normal range. Positive examination and radiological findings included a right pubic ramus fracture, and an undisplaced right fibular fracture. Ten hours later he was transferr...

Journal of Thoracic Oncology® • Volume 8, Number 7, July 2013 We congratulate Gomez et al for their very important contribution on the patterns of failure, toxicity, and survival after extrapleural pneumonectomy and hemithoracic intensity-modulated radiation therapy, for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Studies about patterns of failure are of great importance because patterns of local and dista...

We reported a case of a breast cancer's skin metastases in a patient that had sustained 3 lines of chemotherapy. At first she received surgical treatment with Madden's mastectomy with dissection of axillary limphnodes and positioning of an expander. After that she underwent to chemo- and radiotherapy. The schedules we performed were: FEC, TC,Vinorelbine and Capecitabine. Only after the FEC ther...

We thank Yang et al. for their study about the resection of the posterior mediastinal lesions [1]. We want to add a comment on the approach for the posterior mediastinal tumours. We agree that thoracoscopic resection of posterior mediastinal tumours can be performed successfully with decreased operation time, hospital stay and patient discomfort. But we think that those that are located to the ...

Case Report A 60-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a myocardial infarction and was incidentally found to have a right posterior thoracic mass on chest-radiograph. Computed tomography (CT) confirmed a large posterior thoracic mass with pleural thickening. No mediastinal lymphadenopathy or pulmonary metastasis was seen. He had a coronary artery bypass grafting and returned 2 months later...

transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus between domestic pets and humans in veterinary clinics and in the household. To the Editor: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an established nosocomial pathogen worldwide but more recently has emerged as a highly virulent organism in the community, particularly in the United States (1–3). In Latin America, community...