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Cureus
July 2024
Surgical Gastroenterology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh, Rishikesh, IND.
A giant common bile duct (CBD) calculus is a rare occurrence, and the presence of a giant calculus within a choledochal cyst (CDC) is even more unusual. In this case report, we detail an instance of a giant CBD calculus measuring 7 cm x 3 cm found within a CDC, accompanied by multiple tiny calculi. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) revealed the dilation of the bi-lobar intrahepatic biliary radical (IHBR) and the CBD.
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July 2024
Thoracic Surgery Unit, Policlinico Umberto I, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
BACKGROUND Pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA), defined as a pathologic dilatation of the PA greater than 1.5-fold the normal diameter, is a rare complication of Behçet disease. It is due to a weakening of the vessel wall for a great vessels' vasculitis, often asymptomatic and incidentally diagnosed on imaging studies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHum Pathol
November 2023
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 90048, USA.
Patients with post-acute COVID-19 (PA-COVID) syndrome or long COVID-19 syndrome develop persistent symptoms and complications that last beyond 4 weeks of the initial infection. There is limited information regarding the pulmonary pathology in PA-COVID patients who require bilateral orthotopic lung transplantation (BOLT). Our experience with 40 lung explants from 20 PA-COVID patients who underwent BOLT is described.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Investig Med High Impact Case Rep
March 2023
Fundación Valle del Lili, Cali, Colombia.
Central airway obstruction refers to the occlusion of more than 50% of the trachea, main stem bronchi, or lobar bronchus. It can potentially become a life-threatening condition. Pulmonary hamartomas (PH) are rare tumors with an incidence of 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInfect Drug Resist
August 2022
Shenzhen People's Hospital, Shenzhen Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Case Presentation: The patient was a middle-aged housewife who had been using the household spray for a long time, and the main symptoms were cough and sputum production. Chest CT showed lobar ground-glass opacities (GGOs) with small patchy consolidation in the right middle lobe (RML), specifically, lung tissue pathology showed a large number of foamy cells and scattered multinucleated giant cells. The patient received empirical anti-infective treatment, but no clinical improvement was observed.
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