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This article concerns a case of an extremely mobile pulmonary opacity. This opacity was attributed to a free calcified mass in the pleural space. It is probably a small benign neoplasm whose peduncle underwent necrosis.
Small ring-shaped images, related to 2nd or 3rd bronchial walls are seen in prahilar lung region in 80% of chest Xray films, when a bronchus in seen "end on". This bronchial wall thickening (greater than 0.3 mm) is present in numerous lung diseases such as silicosis, bronchiectasis and pulmonary edema. In order to evaluate the significance of such bronchial wall thickening in chronic obstructive bronchitis and bronchial asthma, 78 patients suffering from these diseases have been studied correlating bronchial wall-thickening with the major clinical and bio-humoral indices of broncho obstruction a significant correlation was found between bronchial wall thickening and Tiffeneau index (p less than 0.05), the PaO2 (p less than 0.01), and the E.S.R., expressed as Katz index (p less than 0.001). No correlation was observed between bronchial wall thickening and positivity to allergological tests. It follows that the bronchial wall thickening is an expression of mucous membrane edema and/or endobronchial mucous or purulent hypersecretion. This aspect, though not usefull in the differential diagnosis between chronic obstructive bronchitis and paroxysmal bronchial asthma due to topical inhalants, is indicative of an acute phase in the inflammation process in such patients.
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Good therapeutic results free of unwanted side-effects were observed in the management of acute and chronic non-tubercular bronchopneumopathies with an association of tetracyclin hydrochloride, proteolytic enzymes (trypsin and chymotrypsin), vanillic acid diethylamide and pyridophyllin.
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The follow-up study of one chondrosarcoma of the hyoid bone is reported; the tumor was a well differentiated grade II chondrosarcoma that relapsed after 10 months and metastasized after 6 years. Fine needle aspiration cytologic method was utilized for the diagnosis of the lung metastases. Cytologic criteria in the differential diagnosis of the chondrosarcoma are discussed. Follow-up of the extra-skeleton chondrosarcoma has to be continued for a long time independently from the grade of differentiation.
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