A 55 year old female, complaining of bloody sputum and fever, was referred to our institution. The chest roentgenogram on admission revealed a large thin-walled cavitary shadow in the right upper lobe. We could clearly observe the inner surface of the postinflammatory bronchiectatic cavity in the right B3 bronchus by fibreoptic bronchoscopy. This is the first case in which interesting bronchosc...

A 61-year-old male was admitted to Başkent University Hospital with right shoulder pain, weight loss, and dyspeptic symptoms. His chest roentgenogram showed a mass-like shadow of about 7 cm in diameter in the right upper lung area (Fig. 1). Subsequent computed tomograph (CT) revealed a large tumor with multiple metastases spread in the lung paranchimal tissue but no metastases in the mediastina...

intrapulmonary density can usually be accomplished by obtaining posteroanterior ( PA) and lateral chest roentgenograms. However, when one is confronted with an abnormality within the lung, only the PA chest film may be available for appraisal. In the presence of multiple infiltrates in both lungs, it may be difficult to locate precisely the segmental distribution even after viewing the lateral ...

BACKGROUND: In order to determine the type and incidence of pulmonary complications associated with the placement of narrow-bore enteral feeding tubes we conducted a prospective, descriptive study in the multidisciplinary intensive care unit (ICU) of a university hospital. All patients that had narrow-bore enteral feeding tubes inserted over a 2-year period (1993-1995) were included. The study ...

CASE REPORTS Case I A 51-year-old man was admitted because of dyspnea, thoracic pain, dry cough, and weight loss of 1 month duration. He had been holding parakeets for 40 years, Physical examination revealed dorsobasal pulmonary r-ales, palpable purpura on the legs, and swelling of both knees and the right ankle. Besides an erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) of 80 mm/h, standard laboratory te...

Pulmonary localized hamartomas were first reported in 1906 by Hart(1). Hamartoma is the most common benign neoplasm to occur in the lung. Histologically, the lesions consist of a combination of cartilage, connective tissue, smooth muscle, fat, and respiratory epithelium. Malign transformation is rare (2,3). Pulmonary hamartomas occur more common in males. However, some authors reported male/fem...

FIGURE 1. Posteroanterior chest roentgenogram illtmstrating wellcircumscribed homogeneous right tmpper lobe cystic lesion. deferred while a second opinion was obtained. The patient felt well and specifically denied fever, chills, chest pain, sputum production, hemoptysis, o)r previous episodes of pneumonia. She had no known exposure to tuberculosis and no prior history of surgery. She was recei...

A 42-yr-old female presented with complaints of cough, dyspnoea and chest pain for 2 months. She was living in the eastern part of Turkey. As a child, she lived in the countryside, and her family earned their living by raising cattle. She has lived in the city for 10 yrs and did not have any animals in her house. There was neither sputum nor haemoptysis. She had lost weight, y3 kg in 4 months. ...

Pleomorphic carcinoma (PC) is a rare malignancy of the lung. We present 3 cases that were resected. Case 1: The patient was a 75-year-old asymptomatic man whose chest roentgenogram showed a cavity at the right apex. A right upper lobectomy was performed, and the pathological stage was IB (pT2N0M0). After 3 courses of adjuvant chemotherapy, he is alive without relapse 56 months after the operati...

A49-year-old man was referred because of an acute myocardial infarction. He had undergone aortic and mitral valve replacements for endocarditis in 1984 (Figure 1). In the early 1990s, the mitral valve had developed a paravalvular leak that was not regarded as consequential. A right-sided mass was noted on the chest roentgenogram, however, that was interpreted as a pericardial “cyst.” The patien...