[Apropos of a rare tumor of the pleura: benign schwannoma].
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S el Hammami
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[Immediate postoperative arrhythmias follwing pneumonectomy for lung cancer].
UNLABELLED: Immediate postoperative arrhythmias after pneumonectomy for non small cell lung cancer is a serious complication. Frequency is estimated 10 to 28% of all patients. The goal of this study is to evaluate the incidence of this complication in our experience, preoperative risk factors, therapeutic implications and short outcome. 132 consecutive patients underwent pneumonectomy for lung cancer. We retrospectively studied this series of which 29 patients developed arrhythmias postoperatively. Mean age was 58 years (48 to 79), 16 patients were older than 65 years. Seven patients had medical history of either myocardial infarction or hypertension. Arrhythmias appeared post-operatively on days 1 and 2 six times, days 3 ans 4 ten times, days 5 to 6 six times and days 7 to 10 twice. The trouble consisted in atrial fibrillation in 18 patients, atrial associated with ventricular premature beats in 11 patients. Antiarrhythmic medication (amiodarone) was started as soon as the trouble was confirmed by EKG in all cases. Normalization was obtained in 27 patients (95%). One patient remained dysrrhythmic in spite of treatment. One death occurred on day 4 postoperatively. The mean hospitalisation stay was 10 days. CONCLUSION: Cardiac arrhythmia in the immediate postoperative course is not rare. Early diagnosis in patients at risk followed by adequat treatment is necessary to avoid haemodynamic storm in these quite fragile patients. Amiodarone is the treatment of choice.
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[Acute arterial ischemia due to tumor embolism after pulmonary resection: report of two cases and review of the literature].
From january 1984 to december 1999 we operate in our institution, 465 patients affected by lung cancer. In the early post-operative period we observe two arterial peripheral embolic events. Treatment consist in surgical embolectomy by Fogarty probe under femoral way. We don't observe post-operative complications or any functional sequelae. For the two patients tumoral character of the embolism was confirmed this work confirm the need of pre-operative precautions to avoid this complication that way be severe when in diagnosed or treated lately.
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[Costal chondrosarcoma. 4 cases].
BACKGROUND: Tumors of the rib cage are uncommon and malignant in 29% of the cases. Chondrosarcoma predominates, accounting for 40% of all cases of malignant costal tumors. CASE REPORTS: Four patients (3 women, 1 man, mean age 28.2 years) were hospitalized for costal chondrosarcoma. Pain and tumefaction dominated the clinical presentation. Calcifications suggested the diagnosis in 3 cases. Curative surgery was performed in all cases. Postoperative radiotherapy was unable to improve prognosis in 2 patients. DISCUSSION: Chondrosarcoma of the ribs is characterized by a strong potential for invasive extension. Diagnosis is suspected on the basis of imaging findings and confirmed at pathology. Surgery is required. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy do not improve prognosis significantly.
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