a five-year-old male doberman pinscher with an oval-shaped mass in the left side of thorax, respiratory distress, and an impairment of the use of the left forelimb was referred to the faculty of veterinary medicine of shahidchamran university in ahvaz. radiographs were taken. the abnormal mass was removed by radical surgery. histopathological examination confirmed the occurrence of a well-diffe...

A 60-year-old woman with a massive left intra-thoracic lipoma presented with worsening dyspnea. A computed tomographic scan revealed an 18 x 10 x 24 cm intra-thoracic mass, which was compressing the left lung and shifting the mediastinum to the right. At operative resection, a large, well-encapsulated, intrathoracic lipoma was discovered that weighed 2,556 grams. Histologic evaluation confirmed...

paravertebral block is an appropriate method for intraoperative and postoperative pain relief in hemithorax operations .effectiveness of this type of pain management have already been shown in breast surgery .its effect on controlling chest wa ll pain is clear and remarkable . in our case despite of wide extension of lesion and penetration of ulcer to the deep part of thorax after excision, the...

BACKGROUND Intra-thoracic desmoid tumours with mediastinal invasion are very rare. Although rare they have to be taken into account in the differential diagnosis of a thoracic mass and therapeutic options have to be weighted since surgical treatment may require wide excision. CASE PRESENTATION A 48-year-old male diabetic, dyslipidaemic, former heavy smoker with psychiatric illness was operate...