Value of transesophageal echocardiography combined with computed tomography for assessing repaired type A aortic dissection.

Thirty-two patients with repaired type A aortic dissection were examined by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) (n = 32), transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) (n = 30), computed tomography (CT) (n = 29), or a combination of all 3, to assess course and complications as a function of the surgical procedure. The mean follow-up period was 55.7 months (range 3 to 132).

[Cardiac compression by a large thymic cyst. Apropos of a case, review of the literature].

Thymic cysts are rare and almost always asymptomatic. The authors report the case of a 45 year old woman with a thymic cyst diagnosed after recurrent right sided heart failure resulting in signs suggestive of adiastole, regressing after "pleural" (mainly cystic) aspiration and diuretic therapy without any morphological or functional changes on Doppler echocardiography. This report concerns a rare tumour, with an exceptional volume (2 litres) extending down the cardiac borders and causing cardiac compression.

Ultrasound and computed tomographic findings in pancreatic metastases.

This is a retrospective study of a series of seven patients with pancreatic metastases studied by ultrasonography and computed tomography. They were detected during tumor staging, or in the follow-up period of over 10 years of patients with advanced known malignancy. Lesions were multiple in two patients and solitary in five; solid in six cases and cystic in one.

Bronchial carcinoma following pulmonary and thoracic wall actinomycosis: report on one case with emphasis on CT findings.

A case of bronchial carcinoma following pulmonary and thoracic wall actinomycosis is presented. Although pulmonary defense mechanisms are known to decrease with actimyces infection, the development of malignancy following chronic inflammation as in our case, has not in our knowledge been previously reported.