[Diagnostic and therapeutic management of operable bronchopulmonary carcinoid tumours].

Introduction: Bronchial carcinoid tumours (CT), divided into typical carcinoid (TC) or atypical carcinoid (AC), are rare tumours whose therapeutic management remains unspecified.

Methods: Retrospective study collecting cases of bronchial CT operated at the thoracic surgery department of Abderrahmane-Mami hospital of Ariana and recruited from the pneumology departments of Northern Tunisia, during a 12-year period.

Results: Ninety patients were collected (74 cases of TC and 16 cases of AC).

[Pulmonary atinomycosis: a great clinical polymorphism].

Background: Pulmonary actinomycosis is a rare bacteriological disease, caracterized by local suppuration and an extensive fibroinflammatory process, with a possible pseudotumoral outcome.

Aim: To report a new observation of a pulmonary actinomycosis.

Case Report: A 52-year-old patient, smoker, admitted in our department for infectious pneumopathy complicated by purulent pleurisy.

[Primary hydatidosis of the chest wall. Report of 5 cases].

Background: Hydatidosis is an endemic affection in Tunisia. Bone echinococcosis is a relatively rare entity accounting for only 0.5-2% of all hydatid cysts in humans and chest wall is an uncommon site for the disease.

[Ultrasonographic, CT, and MRI findings of chest wall hydatidosis].

The chest wall is an uncommon localization for hydatid disease even in countries where echinococcosis is endemic. Only isolated sporadic cases have been reported in the literature. We reviewed retrospectively 15 patients who underwent surgery for chest wall hydatid disease.

[Primary malignant melanoma of the trachea. Apropos of a case].

Primary malignant melanoma of the lower airways is very rare. 24 cases have been collected over the past century. Our case was a patient of 52 years of age who had been discovered to have a tracheal tumour which was found to be a malignant melanoma and was treated with a Laser.