[A case of ectopic pancreatic cancer in the mesentery of the jejunum].

We report a rare case of ectopic pancreatic cancer in the mesentery of the jejunum. A 68-year-old man presented with left abdominal pain. Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT revealed a 3-cm tumor in the mesentery near the ligament of Treitz.

Mastopathic-type fibroadenoma and ductal adenoma of the breast with false-positive fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography.

Positron emission tomography (PET) with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) has been shown to be an effective and accurate diagnostic technique for breast cancer. However, benign breast lesions have also been reported to show a false-positive FDG uptake on PET. We present two cases of benign tumors that revealed FDG uptake on PET and were difficult to distinguish from breast cancer.

Video-assisted thoracic surgery lobectomy for extralobar pulmonary sequestration in a child: report of a case.

Pulmonary sequestration in infants and children is conventionally treated by resecting the sequestered lung parenchyma (sequestrectomy) or by performing lobectomy through a standard thoracotomy. We performed lobectomy by video-assisted thoracic surgery, using an original tracheal tube that we designed, in a 6-year-old boy with extralobar pulmonary sequestration and bronchiectasis in the left lower lobe.

Appendicitis caused by caecal carcinoma: report of a case.

Appendicitis can rarely occur in association with carcinoma of the caecum, particularly in elderly patients. We report a case of acute appendicitis provoked by an adenocarcinoma of the caecum which obstructs the lumen of the appendix in a 58-year-old man. The patient underwent an ileocaecal resection with lymph node dissection.

Modified Dumon stent for the treatment of a bronchopleural fistula after pneumonectomy.

We describe the case of a 72-year-old man in whom a bronchopleural fistula developed after induction chemotherapy followed by right pneumonectomy for lung cancer. Resuturing of the right main bronchial stump, endoscopic treatment, and repair using a latissimus dorsi muscle flap were not effective. Consequently we placed a modified Dumon stent in the carina, which effectively closed the stump.