Primary neurogenic tumors of trachea are extremely uncommon and account for only about 9% of all neoplasms of trachea. Tracheal schwannoma is among the rarest of them and there is no unanimity of opinion regarding its treatment. We report a 30 year-old woman with symptoms of airway obstruction due to primary tracheal schwannoma. She was suffering from cough and exertional dyspnea. She was admit...

INTRODUCTION The spontaneous rupture of a parathyroid adenoma accompanied by extracapsular hemorrhage is a rare, potentially fatal, condition and is a cervicomediastinal surgical emergency. CASE PRESENTATION This report describes an atypical two-step spontaneous rupture of an asymptomatic parathyroid adenoma in a 56-year-old Caucasian woman who presented with a painful mass in the right side ...

OBJECTIVE Among the many therapeutic options for treating tracheal stenosis (e.g. bouginage, laser resection and stenting), segmental resection and reconstruction with end-to-end anastomosis is the method of choice. We verified this in an analysis of clinical material. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively evaluated 110 tracheal sleeve resections performed between 1985 and 2001. Data before...

Chylopericardium is a rare clinical entity in which chylous fluid accumulates in the pericardial cavity. We report a case of primary idiopathic chylopericardium associated with multiple, small cervicomediastinal cystic hygromas occurring in an asymptomatic 43-year-old woman with no history of trauma, thoracic surgery, malignancy, infection or tuberculosis. Echocardiography showed a large amount...

Please cite this article as: Sierra Solís A. Lipoma torácico transmural. Arch Bronconeumol. 2015;51:520. E-mail address: [email protected] with fat density invading the thoracic space via the gap between the third and fourth ribs, but without erosion or destruction of these structures. The mass was identified as a transmural lipoma. Thoracic lipomas may either be purely in...

Bazex acrokeratosis is a set of pathological signs and symptoms that involve a predominantly acral psoriasiform dermatosis. It appears as a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract or the cervicomediastinal area and can even appear before the tumour pathology. We present the case of a 67-year-old male, who smoked 60 cigarettes/day, with hyperkeratotic skin...

conclusions pc-rplnd is one the major operations in the field of urology, which is associated with significant adjunctive surgeries. in appropriate cases, pc-rplnd was associated with good cancer specific survival in tertiary oncology center. results twenty-one patients underwent bilateral pc-rplnd. mean age was 26.3 years (ranged 16 - 47). mean size of retroperitoneal mass after chemotherapy w...