OBJECTIVES To establish an animal model of proximal descending thoracic aortic aneurysm for the study of branched stent grafts. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eleven mongrel dogs underwent the surgical procedure during which an autologous pericardial patch was sewn onto a longitudinal incision in the anterolateral wall of the thoracic aorta near the left subclavian artery to create an artificial thora...

We characterized the kinetics of postnatal equine lung using sequential thoracic radiography. The aim was to establish the earliest time when normal foals have clear, radiolucent lung fields, and to characterize the pattern of this clearance. Both right-to-left and left-to-right thoracic radiographs were acquired in lateral recumbency at peak inspiration within the first 30 min after birth and ...

Tuberculosis affects pulmonary and extra-pulmonary sites with a multitude of differing presentations. The involvement of thoracic wall is a rare entity. We report the case of a patient who had a tumefaction on the right chest wall 6 months after a right breast mastectomy. After an initial radiological suspicion of malignancy, we detected intraoperatively an abscess in which histologic examinati...

Fig. 1. The tumor, originating from the right posterior chest wall and involving the 8th, 9th and 10th ribs, had invaded the right thoracic cavity and was causing compression of the right lung and leftward displacement of the mediastinum. The patient had no history of pregnancy or surgical trauma in her chest wall. Preoperatively, the patient’s vital capacity was 940 ml (34% of normal) and echo...

Chronic expanding heamatomas may present as masses mimicking chest wall tumors. We report the case of a patient who was presented with a giant posterior extrathoracic chest wall tumor. The mass was proven to be a chronic heamatoma possibly developed after a blunt thoracic injury which took place 2 years before presentation and was growing thereafter. Clinicians should have high suspicion of rar...