Surgical treatement of pulmonary hydatid disease in children--a retrospective study.

Hydatide disease is endemic in sheep and cattle-raising areas world wide. Its prevalence is also high in the Mediterranean region including Bosnia and Herzegovina. Retrospective appraisal of the pressentation, approach to surgical treatment and outcome of hydatid disease in children at the Clinic for Pediatric Surgery and Clinic for Thoracic Surgery University of Sarajevo Clinics Centre in period between 2000-2008.

Clinical significance of isolated sternal fracture.

Background: Isolated sternal fractures (ISF) are uncommon injuries and after exclusion of other concomitant injuries, ISF can be classified as harmless injuries, and can be treated on outpatient basis.

Objective: Based on literature and own experience to make a simple algorithm in the diagnosis and treatment of ISF.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective analysis of medical records of patients who were admitted with ISF to the Clinic for Thoracic Surgery of UCC Sarajevo between January 2000 and January 2010.

Surgical treatment of pleural empyema according to disease stage.

Unlabelled: Para pneumonic effusions are often complications of bacterial pneumonia, occurring in 5-50% patients and in 15% cases it can progress into pleural empyema. Pleural empyema treatment includes drainage of pus, re-expansion of lung by using appropriate antibiotics. Surgical treatment covers implementation of certain thoracic drainage modifications, use of VATS techniques and thoracotomy with pleura decortications.

[Lung lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM)].

Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is extreme rare diffuse lung disease of unknown cause seen almost exclusively in women of child-bearing age and rarely postmenopausal which indicates the involvement of hormones-estrogens. It results from proliferation of the cells having a smooth muscle cell phenotype (LAM cells) in the lung, and very often in the kidney and axial lymphatics and lymph nodes or any combination. It may occur sporadically or in association with the neurocutaneous syndrome--tuberous sclerosis.

Traumatic rupture of the bronchus intermedius in closed chest trauma.

Traumatic rupture of the major intrathoracic airway following blunt thoracic trauma is a potentially lethal injury which can be repaired successfully if the diagnosis is made early. Early repair of the bronchus will ensure a good anatomic result and almost complete return of pulmonary function. This article describes the situation in a patient with complete transversal and partial longitudinal rupture of the bronchus intermedius after car accidents.