ABSTRACT Among the diseases that cause dyspnea in felines, primary pulmonary neoplasia is rare and tends to affect senile cats. This study reports case of a seven teen year old FeLV infected cat who was diagnosed acinar adenocarcinoma lung kidney metastasis. It presented prostration anorexia hospitalized with pleural effusion. Chest radiography indicated increased radiopacity cranial portion ri...

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Persistence of pain in the postoperative thoracic region is very common with conventional analgesia performed only opioids, which prolongs recovery, increasing costs and morbidity. Erector spinae plane blockage a promising technique for analgesic control period cardiac surgeries. The purpose this study was to describe case erector provided adequate control. C...

Dichorionic twins, a girl (twin 1) and a boy (twin 2), were born at 37 weeks by emergency caesarean section for prolonged rupture of membranes and fetal tachycardia in twin 1. At first they were in good condition but at ten hours of age twin 2 developed signs of respiratory distress with mild hypercapnia (pCO2 7–8 kPa) but no significant acidosis. A chest radiograph showed infiltrative changes ...

TOPIC: Lung Cancer TYPE: Medical Student/Resident Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Synovial sarcomas (SS) are a rare group of malignancies, seen in 0.17 per 100,000 persons, accounting for 7% all soft tissue sarcomas. These malignant tumors most commonly present as tumor the extremities. While they have high propensity metastasis to bone and lung, primary intrathoracic malignancy is rare. We case pat...

history of smoking presented to the emergency department following a few hours of chest tightness, shortness of breath and cold sweats. He was tachypneic and had no breath sounds over his right hemithorax, which was hyperresonant to percussion. Arterial blood gas analysis on ambient air showed pH level 7.32 (normal 7.35–7.45), partial pressure of oxygen 74.5 (normal 80–105) mm Hg, partial press...

The patient was a 66-year-old woman with breast cancer who had undergone chemotherapy. She had had a subcutaneous venous catheter implanted through the left subclavian vein six months earlier. She came to the Emergency Department due to sharp pain in the left hemithorax that radiated towards the shoulder. Physical examination was normal. Chest radiography (Fig. 1) showed that the reservoir cath...

A 47-year-old woman was admitted with a history of dyspnea on mild exertion as her only symptom. Clinical exam, laboratory tests, and electrocardiography were normal. Chest X-ray demonstrated right hemithorax base mass, and CT scan revealed a well-defined cystic mass measuring approximately 11.3 x 10.6 x 10.9 cm, suggesting the diagnosis of pericardial cyst. The patient underwent right thoracot...

We described the case of a 36-year-old Turkish female with an extralobar pulmonary sequestration who suffered from chest and back pain for five years without any evidence of pulmonary infection. A chest X-ray showed an area of opacity behind the cardiac silhouette in the lower area of the left hemithorax. A CT scan of the thorax with intravenous contrast showed a 9 x 7 cm in size ovoid mass wit...