Effect of the Fascia Graft Size on Healing Rate of Cavities in Patients Undergoing CWD Tympanomastoidectomy: A Clinical Prospective Study.

Objectives: To evaluate the effects of size of temporal fascia graft on healing of the mastoid cavity in patients undergoing canal wall down (CWD) procedures.

Materials And Methods: The study included 32 patients (ages from 10 to 69 years) who were performed CWD tympanomastoidectomy from 2016 to 2018. Patients were divided into 2 different groups randomly based on size of fascia used in the operations.

Tracheobronchial variations in Turkish population.

The tracheobronchial tree exhibits highly individualistic features and many variations. As the anatomic variations among Turkish population have not been studied previously, we aimed to evaluate the type and frequency of tracheobronchial variations (TBVs) in our bronchoscopy population. In a 3-year period, 1,114 patients underwent flexible bronchoscopy (FB).

Gastric signet-ring cell adenocarcinoma presenting with left arm deep-vein thrombosis and bilateral chylothorax.

A 28-year-old housewife, a life-long nonsmoker, presented with 3 weeks of pleuritic chest pain along with swollen right leg, left arm, and left breast. Six months previously she had left subclavian vein thrombosis. On admission, bilateral supraclavicular lymphedema on right leg and left arm and breast was observed and bilateral pleural fluid, chylous exudates, was detected.

Diagnostic accuracy of cytokine levels (TNF-alpha, IL-2 and IFN-gamma) in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis patients.

Background: The determination of cytokine concentrations in serum and bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) may contribute to the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) since cytokines have been ascribed an important role in TB pathogenesis.

Objective: To assess the diagnostic accuracy of TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma and IL-2 levels in serum and BALF of smear-negative pulmonary TB patients.

Method: BALF was obtained from the affected lobe in patients with smear-negative TB or other pulmonary diseases (OPD), and from the right middle lobe in healthy controls.

Impact of TNF-alpha and IL-6 levels on development of cachexia in newly diagnosed NSCLC patients.

Objectives: We investigated the role of cytokines tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukin-6 (IL-6) in cachexia development in newly diagnosed nonsmall cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients.

Methods: : We evaluated 44 (M/F:41/3) NSCLC patients and 12 (M/F:10/2) age matched healthy smokers. NSCLC cases with a weight loss of > or =10% consisted the cachectic group (n:23, M/F:21/2) and the ones with <10% weight loss consisted the noncachectic group (n:21, M/F:19/2).