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A Hatipoglu

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PubMed2006

Pedunculated solitary fibrous tumours arising from the pleura.

Solitary fibrous tumour (SFT) is one of the rare tumours which arise from visceral pleura. Klemperer and Rabin first described SFT as a distinct clinical entity among primary pleural tumoUrs in 1931. Approximately 820 cases have been reported in literature to date. The management of patients with SFT is complete resection of the tumour and follow up of the patient to detect any possible late recurrence. In the present paper, we report two cases of pedunculated solitary fibrous tumours of the pleura that appeared as a wandering chest nodule to which surgical resection undertaken at our hospital. The aim is to summarise our experience in the management of solitary fibrous tumour.

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PubMed2006

Sunflower seed mimicking complicated hydatid cyst.

We present a case of a foreign body in lung parenchyma, found incidentally during surgery in an adult woman. The clinical and radiological findings were consistent with a pulmonary hydatid cyst. Owing to the similar clinical and radiological appearances, a thoracotomy was required for the correct diagnosis of a sunflower seed mimicking hydatid disease.

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PubMed2005

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PubMed2005

Extrapleural hematoma: when is surgery indicated?

Extrapleural haematoma (EH) is a rare clinical condition of which four cases are presented. Different etiologies were encountered. Identical findings were found on the chest X-ray. Two cases were secondary to spontaneous rib fracture and the other two were iatrogenic. Surgical exploration was necessary in one patient following pleural biopsy. Medical treatment and clinical observation were the treatment of choice in the remaining three stable patients.

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PubMed2001

Bilateral chylothorax caused by pleuropulmonary lymphangiomyomatosis: a challenging problem in thoracic surgery.

Massive left-sided pleural effusion in a 35-year-old man was initially diagnosed as idiopathic spontaneous chylothorax and treated with serial thoracenteses and left thoracotomy. Six weeks later, a right thoracotomy was performed for contralateral chylothorax, and histologic examination revealed lymphangiomyomatosis. The patient survived this rare and potentially fatal disease. We have found no previously published case of bilateral lymphangiomyomatosis treated with separate thoracotomies because of bilateral chylothorax.

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PubMed2000

The role of hepatobiliary scintigraphy in the evaluation of the protective effects of dimethylsulphoxide in ischaemic/reperfusion injury of liver.

Liver ischaemia may lead to parenchymal damage depending on the duration of the ischaemia. Dimethylsulphoxide (DMSO), a well-known radical oxygen scavenger, is a protective agent against ischaemia/reperfusion injury. In this study we aimed to investigate the role of hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HBSc) in detecting the protective effect of DMSO. Eighteen rabbits, in three groups of six, were injected with 37 MBq technetium-99m-mebrofenin via the ear veins. Dynamic scintigrams were taken for 60 min (1 frame/min). In group A, HBSc was performed without any surgery. In groups B and C the Pringle manoeuvre (PM) was applied for 30 min, and tissue specimens for electron microscopy were taken from the liver parenchyma 5 min after the end of the PM. In addition, in group C 1 g/kg DMSO was injected into each rabbit 5 min before application of the PM. HBSc was then performed in groups B and C. From the dynamic images time-activity curves (TACs) were obtained for each group, and the time of peak uptake (TPU) and time for half of the activity to clear from the liver (T1/2) were calculated. The TPU and T1/2 of group B were significantly longer than those of groups A and C (P<0.0005 and P<0.005 for TPU, and P<0.0005 and P<0.02 for T1/2, respectively). The TPU and T1/2 of group C were significantly longer than those of group A (P < 0.005 and P < 0.02, respectively). While the electron microscopic images in group C showed reversible changes, those in group B showed both irreversible and reversible changes. The electron microscopic findings of groups B and C confirmed the scintigraphic findings. In conclusion, HBSc might be used as a practical quantitative method for detecting the protective effects of DMSO. However, its clinical value should be evaluated by further studies with human subjects.

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PubMed1990

Detection of right-sided endocarditis in children with congenital heart disease by two-dimensional echocardiography.

Right-sided endocarditis is rare in children. Since the clinical picture is nonspecific and the frequency of sterile blood cultures is high, the clinical and laboratory diagnosis is difficult. Recent reports suggest that echocardiography is a useful method to detect the presence of right-sided endocarditis. We studied 8 patients with congenital heart disease and right-sided endocarditis detected by two-dimensional echocardiography. All the patients were shown to have one or more vegetations in the two-dimensional echocardiographic examination. The 4 patients who did not respond to antibiotic therapy underwent elective cardiac surgery. One of these patients additionally had recurrent emboli to the lungs. Another of these 4 patients died during surgery due to myocardial failure. Apart from these 4 cases, urgent surgical intervention had to be carried out in 2 cases because of very large vegetative masses. Surgical confirmation of the diagnosis was available in all 6 cases. According to these results, we can conclude that two-dimensional echocardiography assumes a specific diagnostic role in cases with right-sided endocarditis.

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