Diffuse Interstitial Lung Disease Revealing Antisynthetase Syndrome.

Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a frequent manifestation of connective tissue diseases. They may be revelatory of the disease or occur during follow-up. Antisynthetase syndrome (ASS) is a complex and heterogeneous autoimmune disorder.

Removal of an Atypical Foreign Body Using Flexible Bronchoscopy Under Local Anesthesia.

While uncommon among adults, the act of inhaling a foreign object is a grave incident that might potentially endanger one's life or result in substantial repercussions. A 43-year-old patient with a history of asthma and epilepsy from infancy appeared with worsening respiratory distress and the presence of purulent secretions one week following an epileptic seizure. The chest X-rays and abdominal ultrasound revealed no anomalies.

Idiopathic Mediastinal Fibrosis: A Study of a Case Using CT and Bronchoscopic Imaging.

An uncommon illness known as fibrosing mediastinitis causes the mediastinum to grow excessively thick fibrous tissue. Fungal or idiopathic origins are the most common etiologies of pathology. In an individual suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fibrosing mediastinitis, which resembled a bronchogenic cancer, was identified during anatomopathological examination following mediastinoscopy.

Pulmonary edema ex vacuo after drainage of pyo-pneumothorax.

This case presents a rare occurrence of re-expansion pulmonary edema following a drainage of pyo-pneumothorax in a 33-year-old patient. The diagnosis was established through a thoracic radiography, and the treatment consisted of symptomatic management, showing positive progress. Later on, the patient was diagnosed with pleural tuberculosis via GeneXpert testing and subsequently initiated on anti-bacterial therapy.

A huge primary adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lung: case report and review of the literature.

Unlabelled: Primary adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lung is an uncommon thoracic neoplasm. It is considered a slow-growing tumor with a low-grade malignancy, which can be confusing as to its underlying malignancy, and the main treatment for this tumor is surgery.

Presentation Of The Case: Here, we report a case of cystic adenoid carcinoma of the lung in a 50-year-old man presenting with an unusual radiological presentation.

[Spontaneous pneumomediastinum: about 18 cases].

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is defined as the presence of air in the mediastinum in the absence of traumatic or iatrogenic cause. Diagnosis is based on chest X-ray. Other paraclinical examinations, such as chest tomodensitometry or bronchial or gastrointestinal endoscopy, are sometimes necessary.

[Alveolar microlithiasis: about a new case].

Alveolar microlithiasis (AM) is a rare disease, characterized by the accumulation of calcium concretions in the pulmonary alveolar lumen. We report a new case of AM suspected on chest X-ray and confirmed by chest CT scan, whose appearance was pathognomonic, and by transbronchial pulmonary biopsy. AM is often asymptomatic, contrasting with the importance of lesions on X-ray which are characteristics of this disease.

[Pleural and lung metastasis from degenerated multiple adenofibromas: about a case].

Multiple adenofibromas or adenofibromatosis is characterized by the presence of at least 3 mono- or bilateral adenofibromas increasing significantly in size, causing trophic disorders. We report the case of a 46-year old female patient who had been followed up since she was 30 years old for bilateral adenofibromatosis that required 4 surgical procedures. Patient's medical data were collected in the Department of Respiratory Diseases at the Ibn Rochd University Hospital Center, Casablanca.

[Well-digger's lung].

The essential occupation of well-digger includes wells drilling and maintenance in order to provide water. He comes in contact with various minerals, especially silica, whose particles unquestionably are a contributing factor to pulmonary diseases known as silicosis. Our study aims to highlight the epidemiological, clinical, radiological and evolutionary features of well-diggers with silicosis.