Primary myxomas and myxosarcomas of the lung are very rare. Stout studied in 1948 the records of Columbia University and the cases reported in the world literature and was able to collect 140 cases but there were no myxomas arising from the lung or pleura. Miller and Jackson (1954) reported a case of myxosarcoma of the lung and Barkley and Cardozo (1957) published another case of myxomatous tum...

Congenital cystic lung lesions are a rare but clinically significant group of anomalies, including congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM), pulmonary sequestration, congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) and bronchogenic cysts. Despite the knowledge of these lesions increasing in the last years, some aspects are still debated and controversial. The diagnosis is certainly one aspect which un...

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is an approach to resection of bronchogenic cysts (BC) which is effective and viable. There may be complications as a result of pericystic adhesions to neighboring structures during dissection. This report describes an unusual case of an operative complication, the rupture of the main left bronchus. The initial VATS approach was converted into a right...

Neonatal parenchymal bronchogenic cysts (BC) are a very rare congenital anomaly. Usually patients with BC are born with severe respiratory distress or cardiovascular insufficiency are asymptomatic till they grow up to older children and adults. We report a case of neonatal BC with a prenatal diagnosis of congenital tracheobronchial cystic anomalies of the right lung. The cyst was 36 mm in diame...

www.japi.org 83 Unusual Presentation of Bronchogenic Carcinoma Sir, Bronchogenic carcinoma presents commonly with symptoms like cough, dyspnoea or hemoptysis. While bone metastases from bronchogenic carcinoma is a familiar problem, their significance as the first tumor manifestation, has been underestimated.1 A 40 years non smoker female patient came with history of painful bony swellings over ...

Pulmonary aspergilloma (fungal ball or intra-cavitatory mycetoma) is aspergillus infection of pre-existing cystic or cavitatory lung disease. The saprophytic fungal hyphae grow on the cavity wall, peel off and form a fungal ball, mixed with blood products and cellular debris. 1 Residual tubercular cavities are most commonly involved, 2 though pulmonary cavity of sarcoidosis, lung cysts, bullae,...

Intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst is a rare congenital lesion originating from abnormal budding of the embryonic foregut. It is less common than mediastinal bronchogenic cyst. We describe a case of intrapulmonary bronchogenic cyst and discuss the treatment of this condition. (JUMMEC 2008; 11 (2): 86-88)

OBJECTIVE AND METHODS In order to clarify the utility of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for mediastinal disease, we analyzed retrospectively 34 thoracoscopic surgical cases (seven lymph node, nine thymic, eight cystic and 10 cases with solid lesions that excluded thymic diseases) between February 1993 and July 2002. RESULTS In lymph node disease, adequate specimens were obtained ...

  Five hundred eighty patients underwent diagnostic flexible fiberoptic bronchoscopy: during June 1988 to March 1993 at the bronchoscopy center of Kerman university of medical sciences. Seventy six specimens were obtained from patients with bronchogenic carcinoma and 155 from patients with benign disease of the lung. The efficiency of brushing and washing techniques was compared with forceps b...