Gorham's Disease With Chest Wall Involvement: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature.

Introduction: Gorham's disease is a rare disorder characterized by osteolysis and abnormal vascular growth within bones. Diagnosis of Gorham's disease is often delayed and for accurate and early diagnosis high clinical suspicion is crucial. No specific treatment is available.

Primary major airway tumors; management and results.

Objective: Primary major airway tumors are rare. A retrospective analysis of referral centers experience could be helpful for their management.

Methods: Fifty-one patients, including 44 (86%) malignant and seven (14%) benign with primary tumors of subglottis, trachea, carina, and main stem bronchi, were managed in a 14-year period.

Extralobar sequestration in anterior mediastinum with pericardial agenesis.

We report a very rare case of extralobar sequestration and pericardial agenesis in a 22-year-old man. A computed tomographic (CT) scan demonstrated an anterior mediastinal mass. No aberrant artery was preoperatively identified.

The etiological factors of recurrence after tracheal resection and reconstruction in post-intubation stenosis.

We assessed several factors which might be responsible for the recurrence of post-intubation airway stenosis in a large group of patients who underwent resection and reconstruction surgery by one surgical team. Four hundred and ninety-four patients underwent reconstruction of post-intubation airway stenosis during 1995-2006. The case group comprised patients who had developed recurrence, while controls had no recurrence.

Langerhans cell histiocytosis of the lung and thyroid, co-existing with papillary thyroid cancer.

A 24-year-old man presented to our center with a huge goiter compressing his airway. He had a previous diagnosis of Langerhans cell histiocytosis (LCH) of the lung. Core needle biopsy was consistent with histiocytosis.

Postintubation multisegmental tracheal stenosis: treatment and results.

Background: A number of postintubation tracheal stenoses involve different and separate segments. Treatment of these types of strictures is complicated with obscure results, infrequently reported in literature.

Methods: A total of 648 patients underwent treatment for tracheal or subglottic stenosis from September 1993 through October 2005; of those, 26 cases had two separate stenotic segments.