1/165. Early glial tumor metastases through a ventriculo-atrial shunt.A girl of 12 with a pontine polymorphous astrocytoma diffusely metastasizing to the spinal cord leptomeninges suddenly died 20 hours after the insertion of a right ventriculo-atrial shunt. Many severely damaged glial neoplastic cells were found in the blood vessels of the lung and liver.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = blood vessel, vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
2/165. Flitting radiographic shadows: an unusual presentation of cancer in the lungs.Tumour involvement of pulmonary blood vessels occurs frequently in advanced lung cancer and occasionally may cause pulmonary infarction. A case is reported of diffuse obstruction of pulmonary arteries by cancer in which no primary tumour was found, and which presented as flitting radiographic opacities due to pulmonary infarction.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = blood vessel, vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
3/165. Pericardial tamponade: an unusual complication of lobectomy for lung cancer.A rare case of pericardial tamponade developed in a 69-year-old man after a right upper lobectomy for lung cancer. This unusual complication presented in the early postoperative period and was associated with what we believed to be an aberrant right bronchial artery coming off the intrapericardial portion of the aorta. This vessel retracted into the pericardial sac where it bled causing a pericardial tamponade.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.18413839917024keywords = vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
4/165. Acute neoplastic arterial embolism after pneumonectomy.Intra-arterial tumour embolism after pneumonectomy is a known but rare complication. It arises because of tumour involvement of pulmonary veins. Usual outcome of this complication is grave when embolism is to a major vessel. If embolism occurs in a peripheral circulation, timely intervention can avoid significant morbidity. We report a case where embolisation occurred in both the femoral arteries. Emergency embolectomy was done successfully avoiding major complication.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.18413839917024keywords = vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
5/165. Pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis in an asymptomatic elderly patient.Thoracic hemangiomatosis is an extremely rare condition of the thorax of unknown origin: thin-walled capillary blood vessels infiltrate the lung parenchyma, blood vessels, interlobular septa, bronchiolar walls and pleura. The infiltration of pulmonary veins and venules induces secondary pulmonary veno-occlusive disease and pulmonary hypertension with a slowly progressive clinical course. This condition can be associated with vascular dementia and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC).- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 2keywords = blood vessel, vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
6/165. indocyanine green iris angiography of lung carcinoma metastatic to the iris.BACKGROUND: To investigate the usefulness of indocyanine green (ICG) iris angiography for monitoring vascular abnormalities and the clinical course of metastatic iris tumor during chemotherapy. methods: We performed ICG iris angiography at several points during systemic chemotherapy for a 67-year-old man who had been diagnosed as having small-cell carcinoma of the lung with metastatic iris tumors. RESULTS: ICG iris angiography clearly demonstrated hyperfluorescent tumor vessels, rubeosis iridis, and dilated iris stromal vessels. After chemotherapy, these hyperfluorescent vessels and rubeosis regressed. CONCLUSION: ICG iris angiography appears to be an effective and useful method for observing abnormal vessels associated with metastatic iris tumors.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.73655359668097keywords = vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
7/165. Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia of the lung simulating carcinoma: pseudolymphoma with inflammatory changes.Angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia of the lung developed in a 45-year-old man who was a heavy smoker. Slow growth of the lesion 3 years after biopsy and the finding of atypical cells in the sputum and bronchial washings strongly suggested a malignant lesion. There were no systemic manifestations other than dyspnea, which may have been related to allergy. The lesion was angiofollicular lymph node hyperplasia of the hyaline-vascular type. Invasion by lymphoid cells of both blood vessels and bronchioles suggested that the pathogenesis was probably infectious or inflammatory; also, the nature of the infiltrate indicated an immune mechanism. The course of the disease, as in other cases reported, has been benign, though a patchy density has developed in contralateral lung 4 years after lobectomy.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = blood vessel, vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
8/165. Extended resection of the pulmonary artery and the aorta for primary lung cancer. Report of a case.We report a case of squamous cell carcinoma of the lung in which a left pneumonectomy combined resection of the pulmonary artery and aorta was performed using a cardiopulmonary bypass. The bifurcation of the pulmonary artery was repaired with a pericardial patch and the descending aorta was replaced with an artificial vessel Eleven months later, the patient underwent dissection of the contralateral mediastinal lymph nodes because of a recurrence of the disease. Even though pulmonary metastases have again recently appeared, he is alive and doing well two years after operation. To obtain a better prognosis in cases demonstrating an involvement of the bifurcation of pulmonary artery, more effective combined treatment still needs to be developed.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.18413839917024keywords = vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
9/165. Superior vena cava obstruction caused by radiation induced venous fibrosis.superior vena cava syndrome is most often caused by lung carcinoma. Two cases are described in whom venous obstruction in the superior mediastinum was caused by local vascular fibrosis due to radiotherapy five and seven years earlier. The development of radiation injury to greater vessels is discussed, together with the possibilities for treatment of superior vena cava syndrome.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.18413839917024keywords = vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
10/165. Pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis from an oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: a case report.Pulmonary lymphangitic carcinomatosis (PLC), a form of lymphatic spread of cancer cells, from head and neck cancers is extremely rare. We report here a case of PLC from an oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in a 68-year-old man. The patient underwent inductive chemoradioimmunotherapy which resulted in complete tumor remission. The tumor, however, recurred 6 months later and was resected. Late metastasis occurred in the ipsilateral cervical lymph nodes 13 months post surgery and these lymph nodes were dissected. Three months later, the patient suffered from a fever, cough and dyspnea and a chest radiograph revealed an interstitial linear pattern from the right hilum to the right upper lung field. Without diagnosis of the pulmonary lesion, swelling of the bilateral lymph nodes followed after a few months and dyspnea worsened with spread of the reticular shadow and appearance of Kerley's B line on the roentgenogram, suggesting PLC. The patient gradually became more distressed and finally died 6 months after the onset of dyspnea. The microscopy of the autopsied pulmonary tissue revealed tumor cell nests in the lymph vessels in the septa and the pulmonary lesion was histopathologically diagnosed as PLC. The present case indicates that we should consider PLC when cough and dyspnea with reticular shadows and Kerley's B line are observed in patients with head and neck carcinoma.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 0.18413839917024keywords = vessel (Clic here for more details about this article) |
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