[Surgical treatment of lung sequestration].

Background/aim: Pulmonary sequestration is a congenital malformation which consists of afunctional part of the lung, separated of the normal airway, and vascularisated with anomal systemic artery instead of pulmonary artery. There are two kinds of sequestration. Intralobar is surrounded with normal lung and its pleura, and extralobar which has extrapulmonary position and pleura of its own.

[Surgical treatment of war posttraumatic pleural empyemas].

Background/aim: Posttraumatic pleural empyema is the most frequent septic complication of the thoracic penetrating war injuries. Surgical treatment used to be based on the experience gained in the treatment of parapneumonic empyema, the most frequent empyema, and used to be favored the pleural drainage until the nineties of the last century. Thoracotomy and decortication was performed in case of drainage failure, in early chronic phase, 4-6 weeks after injury.

[Thoracic surgery in solving enormous elevation of the left hemidiaphragm].

Background: Acquired elevation of the diaphragm is mostly the result of phrenic nerve paralysis, some of thoracic and abdominal patological states, and also some of neuromuscular diseases. Surgical treatment is rarely performed and is indicated when lung compression produces disabilitating dyspnea, and includes plication of diaphragm. The goal of this case report has been to show completely documented diagnostic procedures and surgical treatment one of rare pathological condition.

Survival of patients with resected pIIIa - N2 non small cell lung cancer: suggestion for subclassification.

Purpose: The group of completely resected stage IIIa- N2 non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients is considered heterogeneous in various aspects including survival and pattern of recurrence. The prognostic factors still remain controversial. Clinical trials dealing with multimodal strategy for N2 NSCLC are being watched with keen interest, and the feasibility of this strategy is to be confirmed.

[Descending necrotizing mediastinitis].

Background: [corrected] Descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM) is an acute, serious, septic disease which results from a complication of oropharyngeal infection. The disease requires a prompt diagnosis and radical surgical treatment to reduce high mortality (40%). The optimal form of mediastinal drainage remains conroversial.