We present a patient with a large thymoma on the right thoracic cavity developing from the visceral pleura. This is a rare location for this tumour, and only a few had been reported to date in the literature.

Case description- A 6 month old common mynah (Acridotheres tristis) of unknown sex, weighing 200 g, was referred to Veterinary Teaching Hospital of Ferdowsi University. The mynah had history of swallowing a foreign body for one day. Clinical findings- Circular-like radiopaque foreign body was seen from thoracic inlet to distal end of the celomic cavity in the lateral and ventrodorsal radiograph...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1806-37132014000600013 The current intercostal nerve preservation strategy requires that care be taken when closing a thoracotomy. There are currently three thoracotomy closure techniques: • transosteal or transcostal suture closure • transperiosteal suture closure(5) • pericostal suture closure, whereby sutures are placed in the virtual space between the periosteum a...

We developed a model to demonstrate how a hopping kangaroo breathes. Interestingly, a kangaroo uses less energy to breathe while hopping than while standing still. This occurs, in part, because rather than using muscle power to move air into and out of the lungs, air is pulled into (inspiration) and pushed out of (expiration) the lungs as the abdominal organs "flop" within the kangaroo's body. ...

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor (MPNST) accounts for 5-10% of all malignant soft tissue tumors. It often affects the extremities and abdominal cavity and very rarely develops in the thoracic cavity. The incidence in the general population is 0.001%. In our paper we would like to present a case report of a 74-year-old female patient with primary MPNST of the pleural cavity which was prev...

This article describes a case of a giant cell tumor that expanded into the thoracic cavity and through the spinal canal into the vertebrae. A 36-year-old man presented with a 6-month history of back pain and dyspnea. Plain chest radiographs showed a huge mass accompanied by right pleural effusion. The mass involved the 12th thoracic spine, and the spinal cord was severely compressed. The tumor ...

This paper presents a method to automatically measure cardio-thoracic ratio (CTR) from a chest radiographic images using non-linear least square approximation and local minimum. The proposed method consists of initial boundary point identification, cardiac diameter measurement, thoracic diameter measurement and cardio-thoracic ratio measurement. First, the initial boundary points used to approx...

BACKGROUND Thoraco-abdominal traumatic injuries affect the inferior part of the thoracic cavity and the superior part of the abdominal cavity. This study summarizes five years of our surgical department's experience in the diagnosis and management of thoracoabdominal trauma patients. METHODS We examined records from our surgical and emergency room departments from January 1996 to December 200...

Radiotherapy to the thorax in conventional dosage appears to be capable of causing damage to any of the tissues in the thoracic wall or within the thoracic cavity. Since the earliest days of x-ray treatment radiation changes in the skin have been such an everyday problem that they scarcely warrant discussion here except to note that with the advent of new radiotherapeutic techniques they are be...

Though ectopia of the kidney is a common anomaly (Campbell, 1951) displacement is usually downwards towards the pelvis, or medially. Upward displacement into the thoracic cavity is a much rarer finding. Ashley and Mostofi (1960), in a review of some quarter of a million necropsies, did not find a single case of thoracic kidney. The present report is of interest because of the diagnosis of this ...