[A case of spontaneous esophageal rupture successfully treated with a pedicled omental flap].

We experienced a case of spontaneous esophageal rupture. A 64-year-old male was admitted to the hospital with shock because of a severe epigastralgia after vomiting. We suspected spontaneous esophageal rupture by the mediastinal air and left pleural effusion of a chest X-ray film of first visit, and diagnosed it by esophagography, then operated 8 hours later the onset.

Primary neurilemoma of the thyroid gland: report of a case.

Neurilemoma, like other non-epithelial tumors, seldom occurs in the thyroid gland. A 57-year-old man was first referred to our hospital with an asymptomatic anterior neck tumor. A solid tumor was detected in the right lobe of the thyroid and an enucleation of the thyroid tumor was performed.

Scintiscanning demonstration of thymoma: comparative study on scintiscans using 201Tl, 67Ga and 75Se.

Thymus scintigraphy was performed using 201Tl-chloride, 67Ga-citrate and 75Se-selenomethionine on 30 thymoma patients with or without myasthenia gravis. Mass negativity was observed in 6 out of 17 (35.3 per cent) and 3 out of 13 cases (23.