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Publications and source records attributed to A A Samarrai.
Intramural vascular hydatid disease is an extremely rare incidental finding. A unique case of vascular wall hydatid cyst simulating aneurysmal dilatation of the abdominal aorta is presented.
A case of a 12-year-old boy who had double false aneurysms of the right ventricle after incomplete closed pulmonary valvotomy six years earlier is presented. The aneurysms were successfully treated surgically, and the aetiology is discussed.
A patient with a thymic lymphoma invading both chest wall and lung is presented. Extensive systemic-pulmonary arterial communications had developed through this lymphoma. Hodgkin's disease should be included as a rare cause of systemic to pulmonary communications.
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The diagnosis of cardiac hydatid disease is a difficult one. Conventional and specific cardiac investigations are not pathognomonic of this disease. In this report, the diagnostic value of computed tomography (CT) scanning was prospectively investigated in seven patients. In five patients, the diagnosis was confirmed surgically. The CT-information obtained correlated accurately to the operative findings. In all the patients, CT-densities of the lesions were measured and were found to coincide with values of mean CT-densities of hydatid cysts elsewhere in the body. The capability of measuring tissue densities is unique to CT-scanning and have been emphasized in this report.
Primary surgical repair of a complete cleft sternum in a 31-day-old infant is reported. Early surgical repair is recommended because it is usually simple, achieves good results and primary repair is usually feasible. Alternative procedures are discussed and compared with primary repair. The literature is reviewed and a clinical classification of the anomaly is proposed.
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