Giant intracardiac medullary thyroid cancer metastasis.

We report an unusual case of giant intracardiac medullary thyroid cancer metastasis. A 76-year-old woman with a 9-year history of medullary thyroid cancer presented an unexpected 7.5 cm mass in the right ventricle.

Immersive Three-dimensional Computed Tomography to Plan Chest Wall Resection for Lung Cancer.

Purpose: Chest wall resections for lung cancer treatment remain difficult to plan using standard 2-dimensional computed tomography. Although virtual reality headsets have been used in many medical contexts, they have not been used in chest wall resection planning.

Description: We compared preoperative planning of a chest wall surgical resection for lung cancer treatment between senior and resident surgeons who used an immersive virtual reality device and a 2-dimensional computed tomography.

Staged management of cardiac disease and concomitant early lung cancer: a 20-year single-center experience.

Objectives: The association of unstable heart disease and resectable lung cancer is rare. The impacts of staged management, cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) versus angioplasty, on long-term survival and cancer recurrence remain debated. We report our experience using staged management.

An antibiotic loaded ceramic sternum to treat destroyed infected sternum: 4 cases.

Background: After its destruction during refractory deep sternal wound infection (DSWI), current sternum reconstructions mainly rely on muscle flaps technique, but such technique have pitfalls and limits. To tackle the limited possibilities to use device implantation because of the risk of infection, we developed a self-protected device allowing its implantation in an infected area.

Methods: We used gentamicin alone or in combination with vancomycin loaded in a porous ceramic sternum to replace sternums destroyed during DSWI.

Aortic Bifurcation Reconstruction after a Plane Crash.

We report the case of a 26-year-old woman who presented to the emergency room after an airplane crash. The assessment of the lesions revealed a dissection of the left common iliac artery, which was treated by reimplantation of the left common iliac artery in the right common iliac artery.

Antibiotic-loaded ceramic sternum for sternal replacement in a patient with deep sternal wound infection.

A 68-year-old man presented with destruction of his sternum after cardiac surgery. Classical management with multiple debridements, vacuum dressings and antibiotics failed. A replacement of his sternum was performed using an antibiotic-loaded porous alumina ceramic sternum.