Mediastinal ectopic parathyroid adenomas: diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.

Introduction: Mediastinal parathyroid adenomas are a rare condition.

Aim: Analysis of epidemiological data, clinical manifestation of mediastinal parathyroid adenoma (MPA), including imaging modalities, and therapeutic approach to this condition.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study of documented cases of mediastinal parathyroid adenoma that were managed at our Department of Thoracic Surgery of the Military Teaching Hospital Mohammed V, between January 2010 and December 2019.

Tuberculous cold abscess of the chest wall: A clinical and surgical experience. Report of 16 cases(Case series).

Background: Tuberculosis is a public health problem in developing countries. Tuberculosis of the chest wall is rare and often presents as cold abscess (to differentiate from pyogenic abscess) or pseudotumoral mass whose diagnosis is difficult and often requires a surgical biopsy.

Patients And Methods: The medical series of 16 patients with cold chest wall abscess treated with surgery in association to anti-tubercular therapy were analysed retrospectively for the period of 7 years between January 2011 to December 2017 at Mohamed V Military Teaching Hospital - Rabat - Morocco.