Rationale: Screening for lung cancer with modern imaging technology may decrease lung
cancer mortality, but encouraging results have only been obtained in uncontrolled studies. …

Primary pulmonary meningioma (PPM) is a rare disease and usually presents as a solitary
pulmonary nodule (SPN). These lesions are mostly benign, but malignant PPMs have been …

Focal pulmonary ground-glass opacities (GGOs) can be associated with bronchioloalveolar
carcinoma. The present retrospective study aimed to test the validity of a multistep approach …

… Sleeve lobectomy 3 — Atelectasis 1 and suture-line failure f 1 2 Pneumonectomy 4 —
ARDS f 1 and recurrent nerve lesion 1 Distant meta 2 2 Suture-line failure f 1 Distant meta 1 …

Chest drain insertion is a simple procedure with very low morbidity and mortality. The
correct procedure provides for a good fixation of the drainage to the skin. An alternative “Roman …

Valproic acid (VPA) is one of the most frequently used antiepileptic drugs for the treatment
of focal and generalized epilepsies, absence seizures, and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS). …

A 77-year-old patient required percutaneous tracheostomy. A first clinical evaluation showed
a pulsating mass in the suprasternal region. Computed tomography (CT) revealed the …

Thoracic endometriosis-related non-catamenial pneumothorax is a rare entity whose pathogenesis
is still less unclear than catamenial pneumothorax one. Hormonal therapy and/or talc …

Schwannomas of nerve sheath origin (Schwann cell) are the most common neurogenic
thoracic tumors and they usually originate from an intercostal nerve, especially in the …

Today it is incredible to think that an infectious disease, Tuberculosis (TB) as the disease
that shaped Thoracic Surgery. The history of TB has so far evolved similarities with that of the …