An Analysis of Operated Mediastinal Cysts and Masses.

Aim: This study had two aims: to analyze surgical patients with mediastinal cysts and masses according to clinical, histopathological, and surgical types; and compare the impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on these cases.

Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted on 132 patients who had undergone surgical intervention for mediastinal cysts and masses. Demographic, clinical, and histopathologic data were recorded.

Analysis of thoracic trauma patients transferred to Türkiye's largest hospital after Kahramanmaraş earthquake.

Background: On February 6, 2023, an earthquake in Türkiye caused massive destruction. Over 50.000 people are known to have lost their lives, and over 100.

Can tumour budding change the future of pulmonary adenocarcinoma?

Background: Pulmonary adenocarcinoma shows different prognosis even in the same pathological subtype and stage. In this study, it is aimed to investigate the relationship between tumour budding and known prognostic values and clinicopathological features in pulmonary adenocarcinoma.

Methods: In this study, there have been 77 patients diagnosed with primary pulmonary adenocarcinoma.

Congenital bronchoesophageal fistula in an adult patient.

Introduction: Congenital bronchoesophageal fistulas are extremely rare. Symptoms may not be detected before treatment or may be seen intermittently until advanced ages. Treatment is surgical closure of the fistula.

A non-surgical option in large bronchopleural fistulas: Bronchoscopic conical stent application.

Background: This study aims to compare the results of the open surgical approach versus endobronchial conical stent application in the treatment of extensive fistulas.

Methods: Between December 2004 and April 2016, a total of 36 patients (34 males, 2 females; mean age 59.6±8.

Progressive subcutaneous emphysema. A rare finding: Pneumorrhachis.

Pneumorrhachis is a rare phenomenon which may be caused by trauma, intracraneal infection, pneumomediastinum or iatrogenic factors. Presence of air in the spinal canal is reported in most cases. In this article, we report a case with PR in the spinal canal without any neurological deficit, which developed secondary to subcutaneous emphysema.

Surgical treatment of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations.

Background/aim: Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) are direct communications between the branches of pulmonary arteries and veins. This study evaluates surgically treated cases of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively examined 41 cases of PAVM that were operated in our clinic between 1995 and 2012.

Management of Massive Hemoptysis: Analyses of 58 Patients.

Objectives: The objective was to describe changing patterns of etiological factors and treatment modalities for massive hemoptysis.

Material And Methods: From January 2008-December 2012, the medical records of 58 massive hemoptysis patients were reviewed.

Results: Fifty-eight patients, 44 were men (75.

Pitfalls and Challenges of Lung Transplant in a Patient With Kartagener Syndrome and Scoliosis.

We present a 22-year-old woman with Kartagener syndrome and scoliosis who died 112 days after single lung transplant. The classic thoracic involvement of situs inversus totalis and the asymmetric arrangement of the thoracic vascular structures might be a pitfall for surgeon. Anatomic obstacles have forced the surgeon to perform a single transplant.

Can Sericin Prove Useful as a Pleurodesis Agent or Tissue Glue?

 Sericin is a natural, gum-like, macromolecule protein, synthesized from silkworms for the formation of cocoon shells. The aim of the present study is to describe the effects of sericin when used for pleurodesis and/or as tissue glue.  Adult, male, 12-week-old Wistar albino rats, weighing 257 to 395 g were used in the present study ( = 12).

Is surgical plication necessary in diaphragm eventration?

Background: Diaphragm plication surgery is conducted to remove dyspnea, which results from mediastinal shift, atelectasia, and ventilation/perfusion dyssynchrony in lungs that occur because of an eventrated diaphragm. This study aims to determine whether diaphragm plication has any effect on respiration by analyzing the patients' changing values in the respiratory function test (RFT) after plication surgery.

Methods: Sixteen patients who underwent diaphragm plication surgery in our clinic because of plication eventration or paralysis were examined prospectively.

Calcifying fibrous pseudotumor of lungs.

Calcified fibrous pseudotumors can generally be detected as solitary masses in various regions of the body, and were first described in 1988. In this case report, we discuss an adult patient whose tumor was localized in the lung, which has not been reported in the literature before.

Intrathoracic Castleman disease.

Aim: To analyze patients with Castleman disease who were diagnosed by surgery.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively investigated the postoperative pathological records of operations performed between January 1992 and December 2012 in our hospital. Files of 19 patients with the diagnosis of Castleman disease were analyzed.

Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis; characteristics of 11 cases.

Introduction: Pulmonary Langerhans cell histiocytosis (PLCH) is a rarely seen disease of younger population. Almost all of the patients were smoker. In this study we aimed to evaluate the characteristics, diagnosis, treatment modalities and prognosis of 11 cases with PLCH.

Intrathoracic neurogenic tumors.

Background: Intrathoracic neurogenic tumors are uncommon neoplasms arising from nerve tissues. This study reports on our 24-year single-center experience with intrathoracic neurogenic tumors.

Patients And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the postoperative pathological records of 19,378 operations performed in our clinic between January 1988 and December 2011 and included cases with diagnosis of neurogenic tumors.

Can exercise capacity assessed by the shuttle walk test predict the development of post-operative complications in patients with lung cancer?

Introduction: The objective of this study was to assess the role of shuttle walk test in predicting post-operative complications in lung cancer resection surgery.

Patients And Methods: A consecutive series of patients who were candidate for lung resection surgery with the diagnosis of early stage lung cancer were included to this study. All patients in this study evaluated for exercise capacity testing with shuttle walk test.

Treatment of persistent postpneumonectomy empyema by vacuum-assisted management: an analysis of nine patients.

Background: Conventional treatment methods in postpneumonectomy empyemas (PPE) are associated with long stay in hospital, poor patient comfort, and high rate of postoperative mortality. Vacuum-assisted management (VAM) may be helpful in solving these problems.

Methods: VAM was performed on nine patients with PPE in our clinic between July 2010 and September 2011 to provide continuous drainage of empyema in the pouch and to improve empyema with obliteration of the pouch by accelerating tissue granulation.

Synchronous bilateral multiple typical pulmonary carcinoid tumors: a unique case with 10 typical carcinoids.

Bilateral multiple typical carcinoid tumors of the lung are uncommon malignancies. We discuss the case of a 64 year-old female with a nonproductive cough as the initial symptom. Thoracic computed tomography revealed multiple nodular lesions on both sides, which were initially misdiagnosed as multiple metastases of the lung with an unknown primary.

Intrathoracic fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva is an extremely rare disease that is usually seen in the form of sporadic cases and seems to be localized outside of the thoracic cavity. Inflammation and trauma are accused in the etiology, and too many diagnostic mistakes are done. The disease, which may present genetic transmission and has not a definitive treatment, was seen as an intrathoracic mass for the first time.

A strange bullet which caused chylomediastinum and chyloptysis.

Chyloptysis and chylomediastinum are uncommon complications of various kinds of thoracic operations, malign and nonmalign diseases. In the English language medical literature, there were no cases of both chylomediastinum and chyloptysis following trauma. We discuss a case of chylomediastinum and chyloptysis after penetrating trauma.

A rare case of hemoptysis: intrapulmonary cavitary lesion appearing as a thoracic endometriosis.

Pulmonary endometriosis is a rarely seen disease of the lung. On computed tomography, a cavitary lesion of 15 × 26 in size was detected in the lung parenchyma of a 38-year-old female patient who was examined due to hemoptysis. The pathologic result of the surgically excised cavitary lesion was reported as pulmonary endometriosis.

Primary classical hemangiopericytomas of thorax.

Background: Hemangiopericytoma, an uncommon hypervascular tumor, occurs anywhere in the body with capillary vessels originating from the pericyte. These tumors most frequently occur in the musculature of the lower extremities and retroperitoneum, but are rarely seen in the thoracic cavity. The objective of this study is to present primary classical hemangiopericytomas of the thorax together with a literature review.