Biomedical subjects

F Oğuzkaya

Publications and source records attributed to F Oğuzkaya.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1999

Posterior mediastinal goiter.

A patient with chronic cough and recent dysphagia was found to have a retrotracheal mass extending into the mediastinum on chest radiography. A computed tomographic scan confirmed a retrotracheal posterosuperior mediastinal lesion which was believed to have a neurogenic origin. A thyroid 131I scan revealed no uptake of tracer in the chest and results of thyroid function tests were normal. A large retrotracheal colloidal nodular goiter was excised through a right thoracotomy. The diagnostic approach and the safety of surgical access by thoracotomy for thyroid lesions in this unusual site are discussed.

Goiter, Substernal↗

PubMed1998

Tracheobronchial foreign body aspirations in childhood: a 10-year experience.

OBJECTIVE: Tracheobronchial foreign body aspirations comprise the majority of accidental deaths in childhood. Diagnostic delay may cause an increase in mortality and morbidity in cases without acute respiratory failure. We report our diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. METHODS: In our department, bronchoscopy was performed on 548 patients with the diagnosis of tracheobronchial foreign body aspirations (from 1987 to 1997). Of these cases, 55.6% were male and 44.4% female. Their ages ranged from 2 months to 16 years (average 5.5 years). Diagnosis was made on history, physical examination, radiological methods and bronchoscopy. RESULTS: Foreign bodies were localized in the right bronchial tree in 312 cases (56.9%), the left in 126 cases (23.0%) and in the trachea in 62 cases ( 1.3%). Foreign body was not found during bronchoscopy in 48 cases (8.7%). The majority of the foreign bodies were vegetable matters. Foreign bodies were removed with bronchoscopy in all but two cases which underwent limited thoracotomy. In the late period, pulmonary resection was performed in five cases because of irreversible complications. After bronchoscopy, hypoxia developed in four patients, requiring mechanical ventilation. Pneumothorax developed in two cases and mediastinal emphysema in two. Four patients (0.7%) died because of respiratory failure. CONCLUSION: Proper use of diagnostic techniques provides a high degree of success, and the treatment modality to be used depending on the type of the foreign body is mostly satisfactory.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1997

Unusually located hydatid cysts: intrathoracic but extrapulmonary.

BACKGROUND: Hydatid cyst disease is still a problem in Turkey, as well as in many other places in the world. Extrapulmonary location of the disease in the thorax is very rare, and surgical procedures can be considered that differ from those used for pulmonary hydatid cysts. METHODS: We reviewed retrospectively our experience in the surgical treatment of 22 patients with intrathoracic, extrapulmonary hydatid cysts. In our department, 297 patients with thoracic hydatid cysts were managed surgically in the last 14 years, in 22 (7.4%) of whom the cysts were localized extrapulmonarily in the thorax. The locations of these hydatid cysts were a fissure, the pleural cavity, chest wall, mediastinum, myocardium, and diaphragm. RESULTS: Total resection was chosen as the surgical procedure in all patients except 4 (18.2%), 1 of whom had cystectomy and capitonnage for cardiac hydatid cyst and 3 of whom had cystectomy and local curettage for cysts located in the chest wall. Empyema developed postoperatively in 1 case (4.5%) with a cyst in the fissure. The follow-up period was 1 year, and there were no deaths. CONCLUSIONS: Hydatid cyst may be found in many different sites, including extrapulmonarily in the thorax, and bearing this in mind will facilitate planning of the operation.

Adolescent↗