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Open AccessAcute bilateral renal infarction after left upper pulmonary lobectomy: a case report
Left upper lobectomy (LUL) is considered a risk factor for thrombus formation in the pulmonary vein stump compared with other lobectomies, and it occurs in 11.7–13.5% of cases. Although cerebral infarction aft...
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Minimally invasive surgery for anterior flail chest injury in the acute phase: series of 10 cases
Anterior flail chest frequency represents a significant case of ventilator insufficiency. Surgical stabilization of acute phase of trauma is considered to effectively shorten the period of ventilation compared...
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Open AccessPolyoxazoline-conjugated porcine serum albumin as an artificial plasma expander for dogs
Veterinary medicine has made tremendous progress for domestic dogs, which are irreplaceable family members enriching human life. Nevertheless, no adequate supply system exists for their blood products. This st...
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Enteric-type thymic adenocarcinoma: a case report and literature review focusing on prognosis based on histological subtypes
Thymic adenocarcinoma is a rare disease and enteric-type thymic adenocarcinoma is even more rarely found. We report a resected case of a non-mucinous, enteric-type thymic adenocarcinoma in a 53-year-old woman....
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A case of JAK2V617F-positive essential thrombocythemia where allele burden was reduced by a PD-1 inhibitor
The Janus kinase/signal transducers and activators of transcription signaling pathway induces programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression. JAK2 mutation at position 617 (JAK2V617) is a frequent driver of myel...
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Open AccessAnalysis of key clinical features for achieving complete remission in stage III and IV non-small cell lung cancer patients
Although development of immune checkpoint inhibitors and various molecular target agents has extended overall survival time (OS) in advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a complete cure remains rare. We...
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A surgical case of methotrexate-associated lymphomatoid granuloma
We reported a surgical case of methotrexate-associated lymphomatoid granuloma. A 69-year-old female had been treated with methotrexate for rheumatoid arthritis for 35 months. The patient underwent partial rese...
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Use of a titanium alloy (Chest Way) in the surgical stabilization of flail chest
To avoid the complications of internal pneumatic stabilization for flail chest, we performed stabilization of the chest wall with a metal bar using the Nuss procedure. Here, we used a highly elastic lightweigh...
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Recurrence in regional pulmonary lymph nodes after surgery for isolated pulmonary metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma occasionally metastasizes to extrahepatic organs, rarely to the mediastinal lymph nodes. We present the case of a 64-year-old man who presented with nodules in the upper and right lowe...
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Sudden death of a 14-year-old girl with lymphangiomatosis
A 14-year-old girl presented with progressively worsening intermittent orthopnea. Imaging studies showed cardiomegaly, extensive pericardial effusion, and a mediastinal tumor. By pericardial drainage, approxim...
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Open AccessPrognostic impact of vascular invasion and standardization of its evaluation in stage I non-small cell lung cancer
Patients with pathologic stage (p-Stage) IA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have a good survival rate because of possible curative resection. However, up to 10% of these patients relapse postoperatively. To...
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Erratum to: Congenital pericardial defect: a case of right pericardial partial absence with normal parietal pleura
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Congenital pericardial defect: a case of right pericardial partial absence with normal partial pleura
Congenital pericardial defect (CPD) is a rare cardiovascular anomaly. A right-sided CPD is much rarer than left-sided defects. Usually both the pericardium and parietal pleura are absent. We report a rare case...
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Pyothorax-associated lymphoma: complete remission achieved by chemotherapy alone
We present the case of a patient with malignant lymphoma resulting from chronic pyothorax after artificial pneumothorax for pulmonary tuberculosis. The 81-year-old female patient had a medical history of artif...
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Periodic appearance and disappearance of a chest wall (serratus anterior development) cavernous hemangioma that was finally resected in a child
Primary chest wall tumors occur infrequently; in particular, cavernous hemangioma of the chest wall is an extremely rare disease. We report a case of child with cavernous hemangioma of the chest wall, which wa...
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Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor observed by bronchoscopy and resected using video-assisted thoracic surgery
Pulmonary inflammatory pseudotumor is rare. A 34-year-old woman visited our hospital due to an abnormal chest shadow. Computed tomograhy showed a nodule in the right upper lobe. Bronchoscopy showed a polypoid ...
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Localized malignant pleural mesothelioma
Localized malignant pleural mesothelioma (LMPM) is a rare tumor; previously only 52 cases have been reported in the English literature. This type of tumor should be distinguished from diffuse malignant pleural...
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A case of an elderly patient treated for descending necrotizing mediastinitis
We report a case of descending necrotizing mediastinitis (DNM). DNM is a serious infection, and preventing death requires early diagnosis and draining of the infection focus. An 84-year-old man was admitted to...
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Surgical risk of vessel injury: an unusual anatomical variant of the right medial basal segmental pulmonary artery
Video-assisted right basal segmentectomy was successfully performed on a 72-year-old man with an anomalous pulmonary artery. Multidetector row angiography showed the A7 branch arising from the right main pulmo...
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Planned pulmonary resection for metastatic pulmonary tumor with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery using multidetector row angiography
For video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) on metastatic pulmonary tumors, wedge resection using an endo-stapler is the standard procedure in many institutions. However, this procedure can miss lesions or comp...
