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A previously healthy 28-year-old woman presented to the emergency clinic with acute severe abdominal pain and high fever. A diagnostic laparoscopy was performed, during which a large retroperitoneal tumour was found. A CT-scan of the abdomen and thorax confirmed the presence of a retroperitoneal
A 36-year-old woman presented with worsening symptoms of abdominal pain, diarrhoea, low fever, dyspnoea on exertion and bilateral leg during the last 2 months. Chest radiograph showed mild diffuse reticular pattern with preserved lung volumes. Lung high resolution CT disclosed multiple thin-walled
We evaluated the efficacy of pleurodesis using OK-432 (Picibanil) for the treatment of pneumothorax associated with pulmonary lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). Seven episodes of pneumothorax in five patients with LAM were treated with pleurodesis using OK-432. First, all patients underwent tube
BACKGROUND
Although late-onset complications are important factors related to inadequate outcomes of lung transplantation (LTx), little is known about them. The results of LTx for lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) patients, which is a large cohort of LTx recipients in Japan, especially with late-onset
BACKGROUND
Multiple pathologies may be associated with cystic appearances in the lungs. Lymphangioleiomyomatosis, Langerhans cell histiocytosis and lymphocytic interstitial pneumonia are the principal causes of thin walled pulmonary cysts.
METHODS
We report the case of a non-smoking woman of 71
Infections due to Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, a Gram-negative oxidative bacterium are frequently founded in neonatal and immunocompromised individuals. The notable characteristic of this organism is its multi-drug resistance to common antibiotics used for infections caused by Gram-negative