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F J Alvarez Moro

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PubMed1979

[Pulmonary infarction as a cause of pneumothorax: report of two cases (author's transl)].

Pulmonary infarction is a very uncommon cause of pneumothorax. The authors report two patients with pneumothorax arising as a complication of pulmonary infarction. One was a 72-year-old man who had hemoptysis, pleural effusion, and alveolar condensation. Four days later he developed a hydropneumothorax and pulmonary cavitation. He died of heart failure. The pulmonary infarction was not septic in this case. The other patient was a 12-year-old boy who suffered a septic embolism with cavitation as a result of an infected wound. He later developed a tension pneumothorax and died in a state of shock. The authors have found only 16 cases of pneumothorax as a complication of pulmonary infarction in the literature. It is surprising that, even though all infarctions are in contact with the pleural surface, the incidence of pneumothorax is not higher. The infarctions may or may not be septic. Cavitation is not necessarily present, though infarctions are usually cavitated before pneumothorax develops. Tension pneumothorax occurs in some cases.

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[Comparative study of ureteral displacements].

A study ia mde of 15 patients with a known neoplasia: 2 retroperitoneal tumours, 5 lymphomas, 3 prostate neoplasias, 3 seminomas and 2 uterus neoplasias; with displacement of the ureter and in some cases ectasia of the excretion system. The displacement was always one-sided and most frequently found in the lower third of the ureter. Ectasia was found in two patients; we have never found this in any patients without a known neoplasia. Adenopathies were the most frequent cause of inferior ureter deviation but in only one case did they infiltrate into the wall and they were more constant on the right side. These cases are compared with other patients suffering from different pathologies, some of which are also neoplastic but in which no displacement or ectasia appeared even when the retroperitoneum was affected, and with another group of patients in whom there was found to be ureteral displacement or ectasia without any retro- or intraperitoneal pathology.

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[Subcapsular renal hematoma: report of a case of unusual etiology].

The authors present a case of myeloproliferative syndrome with an exceptional clinical picture of pain in the right hypochondrium and right iliac fossa, with no mictional syndrome or hematuria, caused by the appearance of a spontaneous subcapsular hematoma. They discuss the frequency of the different kinds of kidney hematomas and their causes. They also describe the typical radiological signs of the subcapsular hematoma in comparison with the other forms of kidney hematomas.

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