background: in many cases of ild (interstitial lung disease), overlap diagnosis is considered. here, a few cases with diagnosis of a variety of ilds, where eventual open lung biopsy has been performed are selected. reference will be made to reliable sources to show that nsip can still be a variant of uip (usual interstitial pneumonia) with better treatment response and prognosis. case presentat...

purpose: to report a case of metastatic tumor to the right upper eyelid originating from a lung adenocarcinoma without any systemic signs. case report: a 68-year-old man had a two-month history of painless swelling in the right upper eyelid. the tumor slowly grew. two years before his presentation, he had received chemotherapy for lung cancer for one year. systemic and ocular examinations were ...

pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (avms) are rare vascular malformations of the lung that usually led to a notable risk of serious and life-threatening complications. there is considerable debate about the best management of strategies for the group of patients with diffuse avms. several therapeutic options have been reported for management of this abnormality among which coil embolization ...

background: epidemiological studies have probed the correlation between telomere length and the risk of lung cancer, but their findings are inconsistent in this regard.  the present meta-analysis study has been carried out to demonstrate the association between relative telomere length in peripheral blood leukocytes and the risk of lung cancer using an established q-pcr technique. methods: a sy...

diffuse large b cell lymphoma is the most common type of non-hodgkin's lymphoma, representing nearly one-third of all cases. any organ can be involved, making a diagnostic biopsy imperative. when the lungs are the involved organs, it is called primary pulmonary lymphoma (ppl). hereby, we present a case of primary pulmonary lymphoma (ppl) that demonstrated a single large mass on chest ct and had...

experimental evidence suggested that sodium ferulate (sf) and oxymatrine (omt) combination had synergistic anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects. we hypothesized that sf and omt combination treatment might have protective effects on paraquat-induced acute lung injury. in our study, the swiss mice were randomly divided into seven groups, including control, paraquat (pq), sf (6.2 mg/kg/day); ...

background & objectives: respiratory, central nervous system, and skin complications of mustard gas toxicity have previously been studied; however, the liver and kidney side effects due to this intoxication have not been fully noted. we aimed to evaluate the frequency of liver, kidney and lung lesions in mustard gas-exposed iranian veterans who had been exposed to the toxin almost 2 decades...

objective: plantago major (p. major) is one of the medicinal crops in the world which has therapeutic properties for treatment of respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. theophylline is commonly used for the treatment of respiratory diseases. in this study, we investigated the protective effects of hydro-alcoholic extract of p. majoron lung in asthmatic male rats. materials and methods: 32 m...

background: lung cancer is considered as one of the most frequent cancers worldwide, and has been the cause of more than onemillion mortalities each year. exposure to tobacco smoke is the primary cause of most lung cancers, since it contains several thousandcompounds, including more than 50 known carcinogens. however, a small fraction of individuals who are exposed to tobacco smokedevelop lung ...