How can I treat calcified chronic pleural empyema in African context: A case report.

Introduction And Importance: Despite the chance of a complete cure that surgery offers for patients seen early, the management of some complicated forms of chronic pyothorax with calcified pleural pockets of tuberculosis origin is risky, if not impossible. In these conditions, thoracomyoplasty with complete effacement of the pleural pocket is an effective alternative in the surgical management of these pockets.

Case Presentation: We report the case of a 37-year-old male African Arab who was treated for a chronic, calcified pleural pocket of tuberculous origin and in whom low thoracomyoplasty was performed because of the impossibility of performing a left pleuropneumonectomy.

Outcomes after Thymectomy in Patients with Thymomatous Myasthenia Gravis.

 This article describes the clinical outcomes after thymectomy in patients with thymomatous myasthenia gravis (T-MG) managed in the department of thoracic surgery of Hassan II University Hospital of Fez, Fez, Morocco.  We performed a retrospective analysis of medical records of 16 patients with T-MG between January 2009 and January 2017.  There were 11 women and 5 men with a median age of 40 years at the thymectomy time and a median time of onset of symptoms to thymectomy of 12 months.

[A case of diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH) syndrome].

Introduction: DIPNECH is a strictly histological entity according to the WHO 2015 classification and is considered to be at pre-neoplastic risk. It has been proposed that DIPNECH syndrome should be used to describe patients have clinical symptoms, an obstructive ventilatory disorder and compatible radiological abnormalities. The diagnosis is histological and usually based on a surgical lung biopsy.

The value of intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay in the surgery of mediastinal ectopic parathyroid adenoma (A case series).

Background And Aims: Ectopic parathyroid adenoma is a rare entity. Its clinical management is challenging due to varying locations in the mediastinum. The aim of our study is to report our experience about the preoperative localization of the ectopic parathyroid adenoma and to emphasize the major role of the intraoperative parathyroid hormone assay in such circumstances.