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Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep
September 2024
Division of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine at Christus Children's Hospital of San Antonio, Texas.
Aneurysms of the superior vena cava are rare vascular malformations of systemic veins. This report presents the case of a 27-year-old woman with an incidental finding of mediastinal shadow widening on the chest roentgenogram that was confirmed by computed tomographic angiography to be a superior vena cava saccular aneurysm >4 cm in diameter. Surgical resection was recommended on the basis of aneurysmal size and shape and was performed through median sternotomy by using cardiopulmonary bypass.
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September 2024
Health Surveillance Centers, Ministry of Health, Jeddah Saudi Arabia.
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare occurring benign tumor composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells. Lung inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is difficult to diagnose and may mimic lung cancer or infectious etiology. Surgical intervention with final histopathologic confirmation remains the mainstay of diagnosis.
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January 2025
From the Department of Neurosurgery (D.N., L.H., J.G., T.P., R.T.S., A.R., C.M.J.); Department of Neuroradiology (T.D., E.I.P.), Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiology, and Department of Neurology (C.S.), Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland. Department of Neurosurgery (J.B.), Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
Background And Purpose: In patients diagnosed with spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH), microspurs are considered the culprit lesion in most ventral dural leaks (type I). The imaging characteristics of discogenic spurs, and their prevalence in the general population has not been reported in the literature.
Materials And Methods: This observational case-control study was conducted comparing the prevalence and characteristics of discogenic microspurs between SIH patients with a type I leak treated at a tertiary hospital between 2013 and 2023 and an age-and sex matched cohort of trauma patients.
Am J Med Sci
January 2025
Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Dongying People's Hospital, Dongying, Shandong, China. Electronic address:
Background: Patients with combined pulmonary fibrosis and emphysema (CPFE) may experience emphysema or fibrosis progression on chest computed tomography (CT). This study aimed to investigate the relationship and prognosis in CPFE patients with emphysema or fibrosis progression.
Methods: A total of 188 CPFE patients were included in our retrospective cohort study.
Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess
January 2025
Retired, Office of Public Health Science, USDA FSIS, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Plasma, milk and tissue samples were collected from 30 dairy cattle (0.4 to 8.9 years of age) with lifetime exposures to perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) removed from a PFAS-contaminated farm and provided PFAS-free feed and water.
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