BACKGROUND We present a report of a blunt-trauma patient who developed an atypical extrapleural hematoma with hemodynamic instability following a dislocation fracture of the first lumbar vertebra. We successfully treated her with arterial embolization (AE) of the lumbar and intercostal arteries. CASE REPORT The patient, a 74-year-old woman, was injured in a traffic accident. At the scene of t...

BACKGROUND Surgical excision is the primary treatment for a thymoma. However, for advanced thymoma that extends to within the thoracic cavity and for recurrent cases with pleural dissemination (Masaoka stage IVA), the appropriate treatment is controversial. We evaluated the safety of surgery and outcomes of seven patients that underwent an en bloc extended total thymectomy and extrapleural pneu...

OBJECTIVE The pharmacokinetics of ropivacaine 0.2% were evaluated during a 48-hour continuous extrapleural infusion with 2 different infusion rates in patients undergoing cardiovascular surgery. The hypotheses that no toxic plasma concentrations of ropivacaine would be reached and that proportionality exists among plasma concentrations and dosage used were tested. DESIGN A prospective, random...

Are case reports at all relevant and useful? A case report of an unusual case of mesothelioma prompts a discussion and concludes that they do have a role but that their observations and conclusions need to be treated with care.

Two cases of tuberculosis of the thoracic spine with extrapleural extension of paravertebral abscesses, presenting radiologically as cold abscesses away from the spine in the PA chest radiograph, are presented. The radiographic features and response to antitubercular drugs are discussed.

Journal of Thoracic Oncology® • Volume 8, Number 7, July 2013 We congratulate Gomez et al for their very important contribution on the patterns of failure, toxicity, and survival after extrapleural pneumonectomy and hemithoracic intensity-modulated radiation therapy, for malignant pleural mesothelioma. Studies about patterns of failure are of great importance because patterns of local and dista...

The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC; protocol 08031) phase II trial investigated the feasibility of trimodality therapy consisting of induction chemotherapy followed by extrapleural pneumonectomy and post-operative radiotherapy in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (with a severity of cT3N1M0 or less). Induction chemotherapy consisted of three courses...