Giant hamartoma originating from the chest wall in an adult.

Hamartomas of the chest wall are rare benign lesions usually appear in infancy. We report an adult with giant hamartoma of the chest wall. A 21-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with swelling on his scapular region.

A novel terminology and dissemination theory for a subgroup of intrathoracic extrapulmonary hydatid cysts.

Chest wall, mediastinal, pericardial, myocardial, lobar fissure and pleural locations of the hydatid cysts are referred to be intrathoracic extrapulmonary cysts. In this report a 20-year-old male patient had a liver dome cyst, which was opened into the diaphragm and caused diaphragmatic hydatid cysts. The scoleces have probably been transported by diaphragmatic lymphatics into the subpleural location and then hydatid disease has been disseminated via parasternal lymph nodes anteriorly and intercostal lymph nodes posteriorly towards cupola of the thorax.

The value of pleural fluid anti-A60 IgM in BCG-vaccinated tuberculous pleurisy patients.

Objectives: To determine if detection of IgM and IgG antibodies against mycobacterial antigen A60, together with the Mantoux tuberculin skin test (TST), could be used in the diagnosis of tuberculous pleurisy (TP) in BCG-vaccinated cases.

Methods: We investigated 125 BCG-vaccinated patients with pleural effusion. Of these, 88 had TP and 37 had non-tuberculous pleurisy (NTP).

Dental technician's pneumoconiosis: mineralogical analysis of two cases.

Pneumoconiosis was diagnosed by open lung biopsy in two dental technicians who had interstitial lung disease. Mineralogical analysis was performed to investigate the origin of the dust that had been inhaled. A marked accumulation of silicon and phosphorus was found in both cases.

Deaths in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis: an analysis of a chest diseases hospital in Istanbul, Turkey.

Objective: To evaluate the medical records of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in order to determine the inhospital mortality rate.

Materials And Methods: Medical records of 22,651 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis admitted to Gulhane Military Medical Academia, Camlica Chest Diseases Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey from 1977 to 1999 were examined.

Results: Of the 22,651 patients, 133 (0.

Clinical experience of surgical therapy in 207 patients with thoracic hydatidosis over a 12-year-period.

Principles: Hydatid disease is the most severe helminthic zoonosis, with a major medical, social, and economic impact in Turkey. The aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively 207 patients diagnosed with hydatid cyst and treated surgically in our department between January 1990 and December 2001.

Methods: Hundred and ninety three patients were male and 14 female.

Primary antituberculosis drug resistance at Turkish military chest diseases hospital in Istanbul.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of primary drug resistance to tuberculosis.

Methods: We evaluated the clinical data, radiological features and sputum samples from 365 newly diagnosed patients with a positive culture of pulmonary tuberculosis at the Turkish Military Chest Diseases Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey. No patients had taken antituberculosis drugs previously.

The effect of pleural fluid content on the development of pleural thickness.

Setting: Residual pleural thickness (RPT) is a common complication of tuberculous pleurisy (TP), and the degree of RPT cannot be predicted in advance.

Objectives: To determine whether pleural fluid content has an effect on the development of RPT.

Design: Forty-seven patients with TP were enrolled in the study.

Can't lung cancer patients detoxify procarcinogens?

Background: Glutathione S-transferase mu (GST mu) enzyme detoxifies carcinogens in tobacco smoke. We assessed the clinical usefulness of serum assay of GSTm in determining the risk for lung cancer.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-nine patients with primary lung cancer and 32 control cases were enrolled.