*Assistant Professor, **Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal Received: 17.07.2012; Revised: 06.11.2012; Accepted; 09.01.2013 A fifty five year old male presented with episodes of scanty haemoptysis for two days, cough with expectoration for las t four years . Chest X – ray (CXR), posteroanterior view showed a homogeneous rounded opacity in left lowe...

She had an uneventful postoperative course and a full recovery. Cystic sclerosing hemangioma of the lung with an airfluid level is a rare entity. The air-fluid level suggested the existence of a connection between the lesion and bronchi which caused the symptom of hemoptysis. The marginal and nodular enhancing focus in the lesion illustrated its blood supply and differentiated it from a simple ...

OBJECTIVE Removing or sampling lymph nodes from the bilateral paratracheal area through a left thoracotomy is not a standard procedure in patients with lung cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of a technique without ductus arteriosus division and mobilization of the aortic arch and to compare the number of lymph nodes resected in left-sided dissections to the number of...

A 63-year-old woman with COPD presented to our hospital with complaints of breathlessness on exertion, productive cough and weight loss. Chest X-ray showed a bright silhouette extending from the aortic knob in the right paratracheal area on the PA-view and a posterior indentation of the tracheal air column on the lateral view. No other abnormalities were observed. Further work-out consisted of ...

Tracheomediastinal fistula is a rare complication that occurs during the course of lung cancer. The fistula connects the airways to the mediastinum and is often associated with lymphoma. Clinical data on tracheomediastinal fistulas are limited to case reports. Tracheal stenting, pericardial and omental patch closure, and muscle flap closure can be performed to repair such fistulas. We herein re...