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BMJ Case Rep
November 2024
Interventional Pulmonology, Oncomedicine division, Banner MD Anderson Cancer Center, Gilbert, Arizona, USA
A woman in her 30s with type 2 diabetes and morbid obesity presented with flu-like symptoms, persistent cough and mild dyspnoea, unresponsive to pneumonia treatment. Diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia, she was started on induction chemotherapy. Despite prophylactic antifungal and antibacterial therapy, she developed a fever, a right upper lobe opacity and a complete airway obstruction by a large endobronchial mass in the right main stem.
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November 2024
Radiology Department, Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah, Jalan Sultan Mahmud, 20400 Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia.
J Pediatr Surg Case Rep
May 2023
Division of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Children's of Alabama, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA.
Invasive aspergillosis is a known complication in patients with hematologic malignancies. Tracheopleural fistulas are very rare and reported in immunocompromised adults. We present a case of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis with tracheopleural fistula in a pediatric patient with a history of rhabdomyosarcoma and macrophage activation syndrome.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn R Coll Surg Engl
March 2023
Laiko General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Totally minimally invasive oesophagectomy (TMIE) has been utilised to reduce respiratory and cardiac complications, offering favourable clinical and oncological outcomes. A 62-year-old male patient underwent two-stage TMIE for a Siewert type I tumour. During thoracoscopic oesophageal mobilisation and lymphadenectomy, a 10-mm bone-like mass was recognised and dissected along the subcarinal nodes, revealing a 2-3mm opening on the inferomedial aspect of the right main bronchus.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Crit Care Med
January 2020
Department of Anesthesiology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, New Delhi, India.
Unlabelled: Tracheal injuries are one of the potentially fatal complications following laryngopharyngeal and esophageal surgeries. The patient developed tracheal rent during laryngopharyngoesophagectomy. The injury was diagnosed intraoperative and repaired.
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