A 60-year-old man was referred to the thoracic surgery service with a large mass in the right upper lobe of his lung. He had a 4-week history of productive cough and hemoptysis. A chest radiograph was obtained after antibiotic therapy failed to resolve the symptoms. He had no history of weight loss, fevers, or chest pain. He had smoked until 2 years prior and had an 80 pack-year history of ciga...

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Median sternotomy is frequently selected for the resection of pulmonary artery tumor, and pneumonectomy is performed for complete resection. However, it is difficult to see the inferior pulmonary vein and transect it safely via median sternotomy, so additional thoracotomy is often required and this is highly invasive. In the present case, we employed thoracoscopy (which we routinely use for VAT...

The post-pneumonectomy syndrome is a rare complication consisting of rotation and herniation of the mediastinal structures, the remaining lung and the respective bronchi, into the contralateral hemithorax. This situation may produce symptomatic airway obstruction and varies in its presentation and severity. We describe one case of right and one of left pneumonectomy syndrome as well as one case...

Pleuropneumonia in children with heavy complications often requires surgical treatment. In the accessible literature a couple of cases with pneumonectomy in children of different ages are described. Procedure is not often done because of intervention difficulty and the high risk of intra and postoperative complications. A clinical case of one-year old child with left-sided pneumonectomy because...

Chylothorax is an uncommon clinical entity caused by obstruction or rupture of the thoracic duct. Malignant disease, mostly lymphoma or metastatic carcinoma, accounts for half and surgical trauma for a quarter of all cases.' Occasionally, chylothorax is caused by thrombosis of the great veins, benign cysts, or lymphangiomas of the thoracic duct, tuberculosis, mediastinitis, paravertebral absces...

A lung carcinoma with tumor involving more than one lobe or in close proximity to the mainstem bronchus often requires pneumonectomy for surgical cure. Inflammation, bulky tumors, and dense adhesions limit the operative field of vision and may result in the abandonment of procedures with potential for complete extirpation. This case illustrates the utility of thoracoscopy in visualization of th...

Development of a postoperative seroma is a frequent complication after muscle-sparing thoracotomy. We describe an unusual case of late mediastinal shift in a patient in whom our original plan to perform a limited muscle-sparing thoracotomy was abandoned. The procedure was converted to a standard posterolateral incision to perform a pneumonectomy for a large central carcinoid tumor with extrabro...