Quantitative profiling and baseline intervals of trace elements in healthy lung tissues.

Background: Human lung tissue, as an interface with the environment, is susceptible to various environmental pollutants, including trace metals. However, quantitative data on trace metals in human lung tissues remain poorly described.

Methods: This study aimed to characterize the elemental composition of histologically healthy, unaffected parts of human lung tissues, associated with non-infective, non-infiltrative, and non-malignant diseases (n = 60) for essential (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Cu, Zn, and Se) and toxic trace elements (Sr, Ni, As, Cd, and Pb).

Surgical site infection incidence and risk factors in thoracic surgical procedures: A 12-year prospective cohort study.

Introduction: Surgical site infections (SSI) continue to be a major problem for thoracic surgery patients. We aimed to determine incidence rate (IR) and risk factors for SSI in patients with thoracic surgical procedures.

Methodology: During 12 years of hospital surveillance of patients with thoracic surgical procedures, we prospectively identified SSI.

A single incision transaxillary thoracoscopic sympathectomy.

Background/aim: Primary hyperhidrosis causes are unknown. The disorder begins in early childhood. It intensifies in puberty and maturity.

[Surgical treatment of unicentric plasma cell histological type Castleman's disease].

Introduction: Castleman's disease or angiofollicular lymph hyperplasia is a rare disease with two identified clinical forms. Unicentric or localized form is characterized by isolated growth of lymph nodes, most often in mediastinum, and multicentric form is expressed as systemic disease with spread lymphadenopathy, organomegaly and presence of general symptoms of the disease. Histological types are hyalovascular, plasma-cell and transitive (mixed) cell.

Radical resection of giant chondrosarcoma of the anterior chest wall.

Background: Chondrosarcomas represent approximately 30% of primary malignant bone tumors, the most frequent of which is on anterior thoracic wall.

Case Report: We presented a case of 50-year-old man suffering from a slow-growing, painless giant chondrosarcoma of the anterior chest wall. A wide resection was performed to excise the tumor including attached skin, right breast, ribs, sternum, soft tissues and parietal pleura.