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January 2025
Cancer Prevention and Control Program, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mesothelioma is a lethal cancer of the serosal lining of the body cavities. Risk factors include environmental and genetic factors. Asbestos exposure is considered the principal environmental risk factor, but other carcinogenic mineral fibers, such as erionite, also have a causal role.
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November 2024
Department of Pathology, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey.
We would like to present a 49-year-old female patient who was presented with a vulva lesion and palpable inguinal lymph nodes who were diagnosed with disseminated multiorgan involvement of high grade diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. The F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography computerized tomography imaging showed multiple cervical, axillary, and abdominal lymph nodes, pulmonary nodules as well as gross hypermetabolic vulvar lesion.
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December 2023
Department of Chest Surgery, National Hospital Organization Fukuokahigashi Medical Center, Fukuoka, Japan.
Most cases of intractable pneumothorax are complicated by underlying lung diseases, which lead to poor intrathoracic conditions. Therefore, the treatment becomes even more challenging, and standard surgical techniques cannot always be applied to treat pneumothorax. We report a novel surgical technique using polyglycolic acid mesh and fibrin glue for intractable pneumothorax, named the mille feuille method.
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December 2024
Second Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan.
A 65-year-old man was admitted for a tissue biopsy of suspected right middle and lower lobe lung cancer with multiple bone metastases. During hospitalization, he started to cough up blood, which recurred after intubation. The patient experienced asphyxia, which led to cardiopulmonary arrest, but was successfully resuscitated.
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December 2024
Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Although segmentectomy is the standard surgical procedure for small-sized peripheral non-small cell lung cancer, reports on segmentectomy for right middle robe are rare because of the anatomical feature. We report a case of an 81-year-old woman with a history of left S4 segmentectomy, left basal segmentectomy, and right upper lobectomy for multiple primary lung cancer with a part solid nodule in S4a. Owing to the increased volume of the right middle lobe following a right upper lobectomy, a right S4 segmentectomy was performed.
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