[Yield of the thoracoscopic biopsy in experimental pulmonary infections in the immunosuppressed rabbit].

Using thoracoscopy lung biopsy we investigated the bacteriological diagnostic yield in immunodepressed and/or infected NZ rabbits. 84 rabbits were used: 18 controls, 30 immunodepressed rabbits and 36 rabbits immunodepressed and then infected with Aspergillus fumigatus. Candida albicans or B.

Primary pedunculated fibrosarcoma of the peritoneum: a case report.

Fibrosarcoma is a primitive, mesenchymal tumor frequently arising from superficially located soft tissues. A case of a primary intraperitoneal, pedunculated fibrosarcoma is reported, initially presenting as an abdominal mass protruding into a large incisional hernia of the anterior abdominal wall. Despite total tumor resection, multiple intraperitoneal tumor nodules of varying sizes were found and resected six months and one year later.

[Thymic seminoma. Apropos of a case diagnosed in a woman].

Primary thymic seminoma is a rare germ cell neoplasm histologically identical to testicular seminoma. About 100 cases have been reported in the world literature. The most probable pathogenic theory is abnormal migration of germinal cells from the vitelline sac to the embryonic thymus.