Histopathological grading of response to induction chemotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer: a preliminary study.

Management of locally advanced NSCLC is controversial. Induction chemotherapy followed by surgery has become an accepted approach for Stage III disease. However, the clinical assessment of the efficacy of preoperative treatment is inaccurate.

[Pulsating tumor of the sternum: enlarged exeresis and reconstruction with marlex-methylmethacrylate prosthesis].

The authors report on a rare case of pulsating tumor of the sternum. En bloc resection was carried out with removal of the sternal manubrium and body, tracts of the I-II-III rib with the intercostal muscles and part of the left pectoralis major. Reconstruction of the thoracic wall was performed with a marlex MMA sandwich prosthesis.

[Surgical correction of pectus excavatum].

From 1979 to March 1993 a corrective surgical operation was performed on 14 patients with pectus excavatum. Patients' age ranged between 11 and 23, (mean value 16); 11 were males and 3 females with family history of deformities of the thoracic wall in 5 cases and scoliosis in 8. In 11 patients the defect was present at birth or during the first year of life.

[Surgical stabilization of post-traumatic flail chest. Our experience with 116 cases treated].

The therapeutic approach in a patient with traumatic flail chest is varied and controversial, both as regards the type of treatment and as regards the surgical techniques to be employed. The authors have examined 116 cases of flail chest treated surgically; these represented 17.7% of the 655 chest traumas operated in the period from July 1975 to March 1993.