An 80-Year-Old Woman With a Solitary Pulmonary Nodule.

An 80-year-old-woman was referred for evaluation of chest pain that appeared after providing care at home for her sick husband, which included helping him to get up and move about. The pain was initially triggered by lifting heavy objects but then became constant, without exacerbating or relieving factors. The pain was located in the left hemithorax and was not associated with shortness of breath or cough.

Open window thoracostomy and thoracoplasty to manage 90 postpneumonectomy empyemas.

Background: Postpneumonectomy empyema (PPE) is a serious complication. The treatment options are similar to the management of any abscess, with drainage, ideally open, often of critical importance. After infection control, many techniques for space obliteration have been described.

Postoperative ischemic bronchitis after lymph node dissection and primary lung cancer resection.

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the incidence and symptoms of postoperative ischemic bronchitis (POIB) after systematic lymph node dissection (LND) and evaluate the effect of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in patients with primary lung cancer.

Methods: From January 2004 to December 2009, 1,071 patients underwent a standard resection for non-small cell lung cancer and radical systematic lymph node dissection. Fiberoptic bronchoscopy was performed systematically between days 7 and 12.

Postpneumonectomy cavity herniation through an intercostal space.

Mediastinal shift is common after pneumonectomy and herniation of the remaining lung into the opposite hemithorax has consequently been reported. In this case, we present the herniation of the pneumonectomy cavity contained by the calcified pleura through an intercostal space, in a patient who has undergone a left pneumonectomy 47 years previously. We repaired the intercostal muscular defect using a Mersuture mesh.