A break at point A or B, with persistence of the right dorsal aortic root (RDAR), would result in a left aortic arch with either a blind pouch (point A) or a pouch giving origin to a retroesophageal ...

Most physicians are generally familiar with the normal SVC and its tributaries. Blood from the head and neck travels via the external and internal jugular veins, which join the subclavian veins to ...

Progress in the development of surgical techniques has led to the growing use of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) techniques in mediastinal cyst treatment. To present our experience of ...

RAPID developments in thoracic surgery and increased use of mass roentgen surveys during the past decade have revealed a greater incidence of mediastinal lesions than heretofore suspected, have shown ...

Incidence of non-metastatic extrathoracic lesions detected by whole-body FDG PET-CT imaging in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the pattern ...

A CR was defined as the complete disappearance of all clinical, radiological and biochemical evidence of disease after chemotherapy. Marker negative partial remission (PRm-) was assumed in patients ...