Thoracoscopic needle aspiration is a good alternative for a centrally-located solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) suspected of being lung cancer without severe pleural adhesion. The authors report the technique of thoracoscopic needle aspiration biopsy in a SPN just in the medial aspect of the truncus anterior pulmonary artery and the right upper lobe bronchus.

Introduction: The solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN) may be an early sign of lung cancer. Due to the difficulties of radiological imaging techniques in differentiation of benign/malignant nodules, functional imaging techniques like PET-CT are required in patients diagnosed with SPN. The aim of this study was the evaluation of the role of PET-CT in differentiation of malignant/benign SPN by some ch...

A n 82-year-old white man presented with a chief complaint of productive cough without hemoptysis. He denied chest pain, dyspnea, wheezing, fevers, rigors, night sweats, weight loss, or recent travel. His medical history was notable only for bilateral venous stripping of the lower extremities 40 years ago. He was not taking any prescription medications, over-the-counter medications, herbs, or s...

Lung cancer has one of the highest mortality rates in world and threatens people’s health. Timely accurate diagnosis can greatly reduce number deaths. Therefore, an system is extremely important. The existing methods have achieved significant performances on lung diagnosis, but they are insufficient fine-grained representations. In this paper, we propose a novel attentive method to differentiat...