The Availability of Echinococcus IgG ELISA for Diagnosing Pulmonary Hydatid Cysts.

Objective: In this study, we researched the availability of Echinococcus IgG ELISA in pulmonary hydatid cysts.

Materials And Methods: Between January 2008 and December 2015, 93 successive cases, which were studied in preoperative Echinococcus IgG and histopathologically found to have pulmonary hydatid cysts, were retrospectively analyzed. Age and sex of the cases and the cyst's location, number, size, spread to other organs outside the lungs, and its condition as intact or ruptured were reviewed.

The increasing incidence of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in women in Turkey.

Background/aim: This study assessed the trend changes in the histological types of esophageal cancer in a 25-year period in eastern Turkey.

Materials And Methods: We searched all cases of esophageal cancer from 1990 to 2015 according to their histological diagnosis and sex, grouping the patients in 5-year time periods to evaluate time trends.

Results: We identified 1462 cases of esophageal cancer.

Simultaneous Esophageal and Tracheal Fistulization Resulting From Pott's Abscess.

We describe a case of a 30-year-old woman who presented with a complaint of coughing while drinking water, which began 2 months earlier and was treated with surgical repair of esophageal and tracheal fistulization that resulted from a Pott's abscess. The patient had been diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis 4 years previously and had been treated for 6 months. Esophageal and tracheal fistulization of the abscess cavity was observed both radiologically and intraoperatively.

Foreign Bodies in Trachea: A 25-years of Experience.

Objective: Tracheobronchial foreign body aspirations may cause cardiopulmonary arrest and sudden death. The incidence in children is higher than in adults. Rapid diagnosis and treatment is live saving.

Complications of tracheobronchial foreign bodies.

Background/aim: Tracheobronchial foreign bodies may cause several complications in the respiratory system. We aimed to present the complications of tracheobronchial foreign bodies.

Materials And Methods: Between January 1990 and March 2015, 813 patients with suspected tracheobronchial foreign body aspiration were hospitalized in our department.

Primary Endoscopic Repair of a Large Tracheal Rupture Through Tracheal Stoma.

We describe the case of an 83-year-old man who presented with a large trauma to the membranous wall of the trachea and was treated with endoscopic primary repair of the tracheal wall through a preexisting tracheal stoma. Assessment with an optical telescope through the tracheal stoma revealed a 5-cm laceration in the membranous wall of the trachea starting immediately above the carina. The laceration was closed using continuous 4-0 monofilament polydioxanone sutures with direct visualization of tissues through a fiberoptic telescope.

Dual-source computed tomography may define cardiac contusion in patients with blunt chest trauma in ED.

We report a 20-year-old woman with blunt chest trauma because of a motor vehicle injury who has traumatic asphyxia and hypotension. The diagnosis of blunt cardiac injury was put by using dual-energy computed tomography in the emergency department because other laboratory and imaging modalities were useless. After hospitalization in intensive care unit, she was treated with supportive and antiedema therapy.

Congenital lobar emphysema: is surgery routinely necessary?

Congenital lobar emphysema (CLE) is a rare congenital abnormality characterised by overinflation of a pulmonary lobe. Its aetiology is unknown. The management of CLE has traditionally been surgical.

Unusual location of arteriovenous malformation; posterior mediastinum.

An arteriovenous malformation is an anomaly of capillary development that results in a direct connection between branches of an artery and veins, with no intervening capillary network. Vascular malformations of the mediastinum presenting as mediastinal masses are very rare. We report a histologically proven case of a posterior mediastinal arteriovenous malformation in a 42-year-old man that was incidentally detected by chest radiography during a routine health check.