The first rib hypoplasia and the aberrant pulmonary artery branch detected by three-dimensional computed tomography in a surgical case with apical lung cancer, a case report.

Background: The complete resection is one of the most crucial requirements to achieve favorable outcomes in oncologic surgery. The apex of the lung is surrounded complicatedly by the clavicle, the first rib, the subclavian artery and vein, and the brachial plexus. Therefore, the image information especially about the infiltration of adjacent anatomic structures, facilitates the surgery in the apical lung cancer.

[Complete Remission after Weekly Intravenous Nanoparticle Albumin-Bound Paclitaxel in Elderly Patients with Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer].

Case 1: An 86-year-old man was diagnosed with large cell or squamous cell lung cancer of clinical Stage II A.He was administered nanoparticle albumin-bound paclitaxel(nab-PTX)as fourth-line chemotherapy after monochemotherapy with docetaxel, vinorelbine, and S-1.The patient continues to show complete remission at the 15 courses of nab-PTX.

Gefitinib frequently induces liver damage in patients with lung adenocarcinoma previously treated by chemotherapy.

Background: Gefitinib is known as one of the agents for treating patients with both advanced lung cancer and an epidermal growth-factor receptor mutation. In the epidermal growth-factor receptor-mutant advanced non-small-cell lung cancer population, gefitinib therapy has been associated with increased response rate, longer progression-free survival, and better quality of life compared to other anticancer drugs. However, gefitinib has to be discontinued for patients in whom adverse events occur, even if it is still effective.

[Foreign body granuloma with positive 18-fluorodeoxyglucose positoron emission tomography( FDGPET)3 years after thymectomy].

A seventies year-old woman underwent thymo-thymectomy through a median sternotomy for type B2 thymoma. Annual screening with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) and computed tomography( CT) did not show any abnormality until 3 years after surgery, when a FDG-positive lesion, 1.5 cm in diameter, was found in the top of the anterior mediastinum.

Ritodrine for intractable uterine pain due to extrapelvic malignant tumor metastases: a case report.

Background: Effective pain management is an essential component of cancer treatment as approximately 75% of all cancer patients experience excruciating nociceptive pain even at maximum safe doses of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and/or opioids. We report a case where ritodrine hydrochloride effectively controlled refractory pain due to uterine metastases from thymic carcinoma.

Case Presentation: A 40-year-old woman presented at our hospital with chest discomfort, severe right femoral pain, and intermittent hypogastralgia.

Skin rash by gefitinib is a sign of favorable outcomes for patients of advanced lung adenocarcinoma in Japanese patients.

Skin rash is one of the notorious adverse events of gefitinib as well as other epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors. The differences of response rate and frequency of adverse events between ethnic groups are well known. Some reports demonstrated the correlation between development of rash and efficacy in Caucasian patients treated with erlotinib, gefitinib or cetuximab.

Surgery for lung adenocarcinoma with smokers' polycythemia: a case report.

Background: Smoking is a cause of cancer and polycythemia. Therefore, surgeons who treat patients with cancer may also encounter patients with polycythemia. However, few cases of surgical patients with polycythemia have been reported; in particular, a surgical case involving smokers' polycythemia has never been reported.

[One case of malignant mesothelioma that developed right pneumothorax after a diagnosis with left pneumothorax].

The merger of malignant pleural mesothelioma and pneumothorax is rare, and it is said that a very low percentage of malignant pleural mesothelioma detected with pneumothorax is reported. Furthermore, there are few case reports in which bilateral pneumothorax was caused by malignant pleural mesothelioma. We have made a diagnosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma with left pneumothorax here, and report our experience with this rare case that complicated the right pneumothorax throughout treatment.

[Complete response by S-1 with multiple pulmonary metastases 4 years after lung resection-a case report].

A male patient in his seventies presented at our hospital with a chief complaint of an abnormal shadow on a chest scout film. We suspected non-small cell carcinoma of the right upper lobe on computed tomography (CT). The patient underwent partial resection of the right upper lobe by video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery in May 2004, frozen sections of which showed poorly differentiated squamous cell carcinoma, consistent with the tumor size 2.

Thoracoscopic transdiaphragmatic adrenalectomy for isolated locally recurrent adrenal carcinoma.

A 58-year-old man who had undergone left adrenalectomy 2 years previously for adrenocortical carcinoma was diagnosed to have a left suprarenal solid mass. Thoracoscopic transdiaphragmatic excision of the tumor was conducted under the diagnosis of isolated local recurrence of adrenal carcinoma. There were no intraoperative or postoperative complications.

Techniques for treating aberrant arteries during resection of pulmonary sequestration by video-assisted thoracic surgery: report of two cases.

We describe the techniques we used for treating aberrant arteries during resection of pulmonary sequestration by video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) in two patients. In patient 1, the aberrant artery was transected after securing six rows of staples with a knifeless vascular endostapler. In patient 2, the aberrant artery was cut after ligation with special forceps that designed by one of us (S.

[Video-assisted thoracic surgical lobectomy in conjunction with lymphadenectomy for lung cancer].

Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has been in widespread use since the beginning of the 1990s. The initial indications for VATS were benign lesions of the lung, pneumothorax, benign tumors, etc. However, its application was extended to resection of lung cancer.