Extrapleural hematoma as a comp ...
Extrapleural hematoma as a complication following thoracic surgery is rare. We report a case of an extrapleural hematoma following pleural lobectomy ...
Radical resection of a giant re ...
A 63-year-old woman presented with a giant anterior chest wall tumor. She had undergone an operation 5 years previously for sternal chondrosarcoma a ...
Computed tomography fi ndings o ...
An asymptomatic 77-year-old man presented with a mass in his right thoracic paravertebral region. Calcifi cation was not detected in the tumor on in ...
Intrathoracic rupture of an ext ...
Extraskeletal myxoid chondrosarcoma (EMC) is typically a slow-growing tumor with a prolonged clinical course. We describe a case of EMC that was com ...
Surgical risk of vessel injury: ...
Video-assisted right basal segmentectomy was successfully performed on a 72-year-old man with an anomalous pulmonary artery. Multidetector row angio ...
Late-onset chylothorax after pu ...
Chylothorax is a relatively rare complication of thoracic surgery. Most instances of chylothorax after pulmonary resection are diagnosed within 3 da ...
Endobronchial hamartoma with ob ...
A 60-year-old man who had diabetes had a history of hospitalization for pneumonia in the right lower lobe at the age of 57 years. He visited our fac ...
Use of demineralized bone matri ...
Traumatic sternal segments dislocation is a rare pathology that is on the increase because of road accidents. Ideal treatment is controversial as it ...
Large posterior mediastinal ret ...
Most retrosternal goiters are situated in the anterior mediastinal compartment. Posterior mediastinal goiters are uncommon, comprising 10%–15% of al ...
Acute empyema with intractable ...
Nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease rarely features pleural involvement. Therapeutic strategies for this situation have not been well establis ...
Parietal pleura lipoma: a rare ...
Lipoma is a common benign tumor of soft tissues in adults. An intrathoracic location, particularly in the parietal pleura, is rare. We report two ca ...
Pulmonary epithelioid hemangioe ...
We report two cases of pulmonary epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (PEH). Both patients presented with multiple bilateral pulmonary nodules, <10 mm ...
Spontaneous left side pneumotho ...
Spontaneous pneumothorax is a common surgical disease that is a surgical emergency. It can be divided into primary (caused by microscopic blebs <1 ...
Primary lung cancer arising fro ...
We report a case of lung cancer arising from the wall of a giant bulla. A 58-year-old man consulted a physician because of bloody sputum. Chest comp ...
Radically resected epithelioid ...
Angiosarcoma is a rare neoplasm, accounting for only 1%–2% of all sarcomas. It occurs most frequently in the skin and soft tissue and rarely in the ...
Successful muscle prombage for ...
Severe diffuse chronic calcifi cation can cause an unsuccessful closure of the bronchial stump. An opened stump must be closed with a tissue fl ap w ...
Postoperative pleural effusion ...
In living-donor lobar lung transplantation, the importance of donor safety should be emphasized because of the necessity of placing two donors at ri ...
Reconstruction of nonconfl uent ...
The innominate vein usually courses anterior to the aortic arch, where it joins the right brachiocephalic vein to form the superior caval vein. A re ...
Radical resection of a pleomorp ...
A 69-year-old man was hospitalized for fever and cough. He was diagnosed with and treated for an abscess in the left lower jaw and pneumonia by an ...
Dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma ...
We report a case of dedifferentiated chondrosarcoma of the chest wall. After resection, the chest wall defect was reconstructed using polypropylene ...
Thoracoscopic resection of a th ...
29-year-old man had been diagnosed with an anterior mediastinal cyst 6 years earlier and was undergoing follow-up. At a follow-up visit, a newly de ...
Right hydrothorax found soon af ...
Hydrothorax due to pleuroperitoneal communication is a rare complication in patients undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). On ...
Acute early failure of a biopro ...
We report a case of acute early bioprosthetic failure after mitral valve replacement with completely preserved annuloventricular continuity. A 77-ye ...
Retrograde coronary sinus cardi ...
A 79-year-old woman was referred to undergo surgery for a type A dissection. The patient had a history of previous coronary artery bypass. She was i ...
Surgical repair of an idiopathi ...
We report a rare case of idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA) in a 56-year-old woman without any causative conditions, such as congenital hear ...