RATIONALE Coronary artery aneurysms and fistulas are not rare conditions in clinical practice, but bilateral fistulas with a giant coronary aneurysm in just one person are quite rare. PATIENT CONCERNS We report a case of a 66-year-old woman with these 2 coronary abnormalities accompanied with a huge mediastinum mass. INTERVENTIONS The giant aneurysm was ligated and the mass was resected whi...

A 54-year-old man, who had undergone atrial septal defect (ASD) closure 30 years previously, was admitted for exertional dyspnea and chest oppression. He presented with right pleural effusion and hepatomegaly. Hemodynamic characteristics were consistent with constrictive pericarditis caused by multiple cystic lesions anterior to the main pulmonary artery and right ventricle, and severe calcific...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Organized hematoma (OH) is a rare non-neoplastic disease. We studied the clinical characteristics of 17 patients with sinonasal OH and those of 75 cases in the English literature. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective review of medical records and systematic review of the literature on OH. METHODS Comprehensive review of the English-language literature on OH was performed. We scr...

Sinonasal organized hematoma (SNOH) is rarely encountered in clinical practice. The disease demonstrates a high tendency for occurrence in East Asian individuals, and in the majority of cases, is located in the maxillary sinus. The current report presents the case of an 81-year-old female who developed a space-occupying lesion, which masqueraded as a skull base malignancy, following surgery for...

introduction spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma (sseh) is an uncommon but potentially fatal condition. the increased bleeding tendency associated with anticoagulant medications has been proven to increase the risk of sseh. the symptoms of sseh usually begin with sudden severe neck or back pain and are followed by neurological deficits. however, some cases present with only axial pain or with ...