Bronchial anomalies, although rare, represent an important chapter of respiratory diseases, both because of their theoretical interest and practical significance in surgical practice. In this study we presented nine patients having ‘iiccessory cardiac bronchi which were discovered during systematic bronchoscopies performed for other diseases. Only in one case was this anomaly manifested by repe...

We present a case of problematic tracheal intubation in an adult patient with an unrecognized tracheal bronchus. Immediately after tracheal intubation and position change to prone, bilateral breath sounds were almost absent, and there was a diminished tidal volume. In order to resolve the ventilatory difficulty, the wire-reinforced tube was replaced with a conventional tube, and proper position...

To contribute to the phylogenetic evaluation of the river dolphin, the morphology of the tracheobronchial tree of the Ganges river dolphin was analyzed according to Nakakuki's fundamental bronchial tree model of mammals. In the right lung, the bronchial tree consists of the tracheal bronchus, five lateral series bronchi, three dorsal series bronchi and one ventral series bronchus. In the left l...

Abstract Background Displaced anterior segmental bronchus and pulmonary artery is extremely rare. A keen knowledge of such variations required in the field segmentectomy, for unawareness structural variation could lead to intra- postoperative complications. Case presentation 50-year-old female presented our department with suspected lung adenocarcinoma. Preoperative 3-dimensional computed tomog...

A 59-year-old man was admitted with hemoptysis for 1 month. Chest X-ray and CT scan showed a foreign body (teeth) at right main bronchus and left central mass (Fig. 1a and b), upon which we suspected lung carcinoma. Bridge prosthesis with three teeth at the orifice of the right main bronchus was removed (Fig. 2) and biopsy taken from the tumoral lesion at left main bronchus revealed epidermoid ...

The patient was a housewife aged 57 years. In 1942 she suffered from severe metrorrhagia stated to be caused by uterine fibroids. A subtotal hysterectomy was performed in a country hospital, but the pathological details of this are not available. Since this operation and until the onset of the illness to be described, the patient was in excellent health. In July 1949, whilst a front-seat passen...

An adult case of pulmonary resection for repeated infections in a supernumerary tracheal bronchus combined with a pulmonary artery sling is reported. A 33-year-old woman with a pulmonary artery sling was referred for recurrent lung infections. Chest computed tomography showed the left pulmonary artery arising from the right pulmonary artery and coursing posterior to the trachea. The lung parenc...

Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma is a rare disease. It is the most common form of primary pulmonary lymphoma but accounts for less than 1% of all non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas. We describe a 67-year-old man who, despite successful treatment of active miliary tuberculosis, developed progression of a concomitant bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. This case is in contrast to previ...

Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma is a rare disease. It is the most common form of primary pulmonary lymphoma but accounts for less than 1% of all non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. We describe a 67-year-old man who, despite successful treatment of active miliary tuberculosis, developed progression of a concomitant bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma. This case is in contrast to previ...

SEVERAL previous reports have described the occurrence of hyponatrmmia with carcinoma of the bronchus, and inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone was suggested as the mechanism accounting for the low serum sodium. (Schwartz, Bennett, Curelop and Bartter 1957, Roberts 1959, Turner and Williams, 1962.) Rees, Rosalki and Maclean (I960), described a case of carcinoma of the bronchus in whi...