Interventional pulmonology(IP)represents a rapidly growing and developing subspecialty within pulmonary medicine.To the intensivist,given the elaborate undertakings with respect to airway,lung and pleural disease mana...
BACKGROUND Mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the lung is a rare malignant tumor,accounting for 0.1%–0.2%of all lung malignancies.It is a primary salivary gland tumor of the lung.Surgical resection is the primary treatment ...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81701888;Science-Technology Support Plan Projects of Sichuan Province,No.2019YFS0239 and No.2023YFS0206.
BACKGROUND Bronchial Dieulafoy’s disease(BDD)is characterized by the erosion of an anomalous artery in the submucosa of the bronchus.The etiology of pediatric BDD is mainly congenital dysplasia of bronchus and pulmon...
Objective:To assess the safety and efficacy of bronchial artery embolization(BAE)for hemoptysis.Methods and materials:Databases with articles published in English,including Pubmed,Embase,Web of science and Chochrane l...
Supported by the Peking Union Medical Foundation-Rui E(Rui Yi)Emergency Medical Research Special Fund,No.R2018001;the Beijing Science and Technology Association Jinqiao Project Seed Fund,No.JQ18057.
BACKGROUND Pheochromocytomas are rare endocrine tumors with various clinical manifestations,and few of them might present with profound,life-threatening conditions.CASE SUMMARY We report the case of a 65-year-old man ...
This article reports a case of thoracic aortic aneurysm with hemoptysis as the first clinical manifestation, hemoptysis as the first clinical manifestation is very uncommon and to the best of our knowledge, only twent...
BACKGROUND Although choriocarcinoma is thought to be a malignancy curable by chemotherapy,there remain difficult and challenging problems in cases with high prognostic scores or extensive metastases,for which the trea...
BACKGROUND Lung and airway involvement in inflammatory bowel disease are increasingly frequently reported either as an extraintestinal manifestation or as an adverse effect of therapy.CASE SUMMARY We report a case of ...
Pulmonary sequestration is a rare congenital cardiovascular malformation.[1,2]Open surgical excision is the usual treatment,although thorascopic intervention and transcatheter embolization have been reported.However,o...
Objectives: Pulmonary vein stenosis(PVS) is a known complication after radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation(RAAF) and is often misdiagnosed owing to lack of awareness regarding PVS among noncardiologists.Mis...