The patient, MSM, a 69-year-old man, sought medical care due to left dorsal and right lower limb pain. The chest x-ray showed mediastinal enlargement. He was undergoing examination when he lost consciousness and went into shock. Subcutaneous emphysema was observed in the left hemithorax, as well as abolition of breath sounds at auscultation. Tracheal intubation was performed with draining of bl...

Thymomas are rare neoplasms that have an indolent growth with a preferentially intra-thoracic dissemination pattern. Surgery is currently the standard treatment of thymomas; however radiotherapy is often used in an adjuvant setting due to a high sensitivity of these tumors to such treatment. Postoperative entire hemithoracic irradiation has been used in selected Masaoka stage IVa cases after co...

A 17-year-old female presented with dyspnea, chest pain, and a very large cyst occupying the entire right hemithorax Figure 1(A, B). The patient is under full cyst extending to membrane Figure 2 (A, B).

Complications encountered in the chronic phase flail chest patients are a decrease lung volume due to wall deformities and secondary restrictive respiratory function disorders. The aim of study was determine differences changes between who were treated non-surgically those with surgical stabilisation. conducted on twenty applied our clinic diagnosed chest. There ten group stabilisation group. C...

Pulmonary localized hamartomas were first reported in 1906 by Hart(1). Hamartoma is the most common benign neoplasm to occur in the lung. Histologically, the lesions consist of a combination of cartilage, connective tissue, smooth muscle, fat, and respiratory epithelium. Malign transformation is rare (2,3). Pulmonary hamartomas occur more common in males. However, some authors reported male/fem...

A 43-year-old woman presented to us with progressive breathlessness, dry cough and weight loss. A chest radiograph showed homogeneous opacification of the entire left hemithorax. A contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) scan of the thorax showed a large intrathoracic mass occupying almost the entire left hemithorax and appeared grossly inoperable. A transcutaneous CT guided tru-cut biopsy...

impaired/dull note was appreciated on the right side of the chest. The skin over the right hemithorax was warm and hard to touch. On abdominal examination, there was massive, palpable hepatomegaly which was tender. The remaining examination was unremarkable. Chest X-ray ( fig. 1 ) disclosed an almost complete opacification of the right hemithorax with the mediastinal silhouette being slightly d...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Differences between the number and areas of pleural plaques in every hemithorax could not be expected a priori. However, previous studies based on chest radiographs reported an unexplained left-sided predominance. In this paper, a comparison of summed surfaces and location of plaques calculated from CT studies was performed. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thoracic CT scans from 40 adul...