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Examination by thoracoscopy, using flexible fiberoptic bronchoscope, was performed in 43 patients with pleural effusion according to our reported method. In these patients, 14 cases were diagnosed as tuberculous pleuritis. These 14 cases were investigated with respect to clinical and thoracoscopic
The diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) is often delayed because it is usually misdiagnosed as pneumonia or deep vein thrombosis. We report an unusual case of PE misdiagnosed as viral pleuritis on the first arrival at the emergency department (ED) in our hospital. A 14-year-old girl with no
A 71-year-old man underwent right hemicolectomy for an ascending colon cancer (stage II, Cur A) in September 2001. Adjuvant chemotherapy with tegafur/uracil was performed, but CT scans and FDG-PET, conducted in May 2003, revealed cancerous pleuritis and lung metastasis. Although 2 courses of the
Fourteen cases of adenocarcinoma with pleuritis carcinomatosa (lung cancer 10 cases, ovarian cancer 2 cases, colon cancer 2 cases) were treated with intra-pleural instillation of 7-N-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-mitomycin C (KW-2083), a derivative of mitomycin C. KW-2083 was administered at a dose of 40 mg
A 78-year-old man was admitted to a surgical emergency room because of an acute abdomen. He had vomited violently four times shortly after a meal. This episode was followed by severe upper abdominal and thoracic pain, radiating to the back. Clinical evaluation revealed epigastric peritoneal signs
Clinical data of 39 children with paragonimiasis treated in Chongqing Three Gorges Central Hospital during 2008-2010 were retrospectively analyzed. The cases aged from 3 to 10 years old, with 25 cases of polyserositis (64.1%), 14 cases of cerebral paragonimiasis (35.9%). Among the cases of
76 year-old man was transferred to emergency room because of severe epigastralgia and dyspnea. He was well until 5 hours before admission, when he suddenly felt severe epigastralgia followed by vomiting. He was found to be in warm shock state. Chest X-ray film showed dilation of mediastinum, pneumo
Çakan M, Aktay-Ayaz N, Keskindemirci G, Karadağ ŞG. Two cases of periodic fever syndrome with coexistent mevalonate kinase and Mediterranean fever gene mutations. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 467-470. The periodic fever syndromes are autoinflammatory diseases that present with recurrent fever, serositis
This is a report on 912 patients treated during 1973 to 1979 for pulmonary tuberculosis and/or extrapulmonary organ involvement. These patients had been treated with a fixed tablet combination of isoniacide, prothionamide and diaphenyl sulfone in association with rifampicin and partly other
During the last twenty years pleuropneumonia in pigs, caused by Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae, has spread globally. The increasing importance of the disease within swine production is apparently connected with increasing industrialization and subsequent heavy concentration of a large number of
A case of fatal strongyloidiasis associated with human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1) infection is described in a 45-year-old West Indian man living in an area endemic for both strongyloidiasis and HTLV-1 infection. Clinical presentation was typical with severe diarrhea, vomiting, and
Between January 1986 and August 1991, 19 patients with alimentary tract cancers complicated by peritoneal dissemination received whole abdominal irradiation combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy postoperatively. Using a moving-strip technique of irradiation, 12.0 Gy was delivered in three
We administrated cis-platinum 70-100 mg/m2 bolus, intraperitoneally or intrapleurally without diluting in saline, simultaneously combined with intravenous injection of sodium thiosulphate 1 gr/hr for 12 hours continuously or additional loading of sodium thiosulphate 4-6 g bolus on the initiation.
Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common hereditary inflammatory periodic disease, characterized by recurrent episodes of fever, abdominal pain, synovitis and pleurisy. The aim of this study was to determine the frequency and distribution of Mediterranean fever (MEFV) gene mutations and