The occupational health program of a large oil refinery and petrochemical plant incorporates features which aid in the detection of pulmonary tuberculosis. The periodic examination system which includes a routine chest roentgenogram and which is conducted on all plant employees at 12-24 month intervals would be expected to discover asymptomatic cases. In addition, other cases might be found whe...

Primary benign tumors of trachea are rare. Of them, tracheal leiomyoma, constitutes only 1% of all benign lower respiratory tract tumors. Here, we present a case of tracheal leiomyoma who has been receiving high doses of inhaled corticosteroids and bronchodilators for a year with a misdiagnosis of asthma. As the symptoms did not resolve with an overtreatment, she has been undergone radiologic s...

BACKGROUND Intrathoracic splenosis is a rare condition resulting from concomitant rupture of the spleen and left hemidiaphragm after a traumatic event involving the spleen and the diaphragma and is defined as autotransplantation of splenic tissue in thorax. CASE REPORT The aim of this study was to present a case report of a combined intrathoracic and subcutaneous splenosis in a patient 19 yea...

A 41 yr old housewife, orig ina lly from Sicily, presented in June 1990 with a fever of five months duration, dry cough and fatigue. She denied present or previous occupational risks as we.ll as travel outside ftaly during the previous J 0 yrs. The patient appeared in good condition; physical examination was negative for superficial lymph adenopathy. hepatosplenomegaly and pulmonary findings. A...

This article is also accessible online at: http://BioMedNet.com/karger A 48-year-old man presented with a history of productive cough for some months. Clinically, pneumonia of the right lower lobe (RLL) was diagnosed. The PA chest roentgenogram (fig. 1) showed a ‘coin lesion’ of metal density at the right cardiac border, which presented as a disk on the lateral view (fig. 2). The RLL pneumonia ...

We reviewed our experience with fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) in patients with pleural effusion of unknown origin. Seventy patients underwent FOB for the investigation of pleural effusion between 1978 and 1983. Those with a second reason for FOB, a mass on chest roentgenogram, or lobar atelectasis were excluded. Forty five patients remained: 28 patients with unexplained pleural effusion after p...

In a controlled seven week stndy in ten patients with chronic obstructive bronchitis, nebnlized N-acetylcysteine combined with racemic epinephrine was highly effective in thinning sputum. By contrast, nebulized saline plus racemic epinephrine tended to make the sputum thicker in these same patients. Neither the N-acetylcysteine-racemic epinephrine combition nor the salineracemic epinephrine aer...

This report describes a case of pulmonary epithelioid haemangioendothelioma in which the tumour cells expressed the glucocorticoid receptor and 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase. The patient, a 15 year old girl, who had no other complaints or past illnesses, was found to have an abnormal shadow on a chest roentgenogram obtained at a school medical examination. Multiple nodular shadows in the ...

PARTIAL anomalous pulmoniary venous drainage wvith ani intact iinteratrial septLm associated with mitral stenosis represents an uncommon but interesting hemodynamic problem. There have been 12 such cases published in the literature, 1(0 of which three were diagnosed at autopsy.' 2 The initial clinical diagnosis has usuially been that of Lutembacher's syndrome.4 7, The present case is reported b...

aorta, which milks edema fluid from the adjacent lung, increasing lymphatic return; this re-aerates that portion of the lung, creating a ‘kinetic border line’ [1] . A similar mechanism likely accounts for the subpleural peripheral radiolucent rim noted in our patient. Rapid respiration and subsequent rapid chest wall and diaphragmatic movement provide a similar pumping effect that leads to the ...