• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제47권6호
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• pp.566-568
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• 2014

A 51-year-old woman visited our hospital with massive hemoptysis. She had suffered from recurrent hemoptysis for five years and had undergone bronchial artery embolization many times. The patient had a history of pulmonary tuberculosis and bronchiectasis. Chest radiography showed consolidation around the nodule in the lateral basal segment of the right lower lobe. We successfully performed a right lower lobectomy. The histological study of the resected specimen showed a vegetable foreign body and clumps of Actinomyces, indicating actinomycosis, which was suggested to be the cause of the hemoptysis. This was a very rare case of hemoptysis caused by a vegetable foreign body and actinomycosis.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제50권6호
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• pp.710-717
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• 2001

본 증례에서는 객혈을 주소로 내원한 두 환자에서 폐격리증의 소견이 없이 좌측 기저폐구역에 흉부 하행 대동맥에서 기인하는 기형적인 전신동맥의 혈액공급, 좌측 상폐구역을 제외한 하폐동맥의 결손과 함께 좌측 폐정맥을 거치어 좌심방으로 유입되는 혈관기형을 경험하였기에 보고 하는 바이다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제78권4호
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• pp.440-444
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• 2015

Gastric mucosal damage by iron pills is often reported. However, iron pill aspiration is uncommon. Oxidation of the impacted iron pill causes bronchial mucosal damage that progresses to chronic bronchial inflammation, necrosis, endobronchial stenosis and rarely, perforation. We reported a case of a 92-year-old woman with chronic productive cough and significant left-sided atelectasis. Bronchoscopy revealed substantial luminal narrowing with exudative inflammation of the left main bronchus. Bronchial washing cytology showed necroinflammatory exudate and a small amount of brown material. Mucosal biopsy showed diffuse brown pigments indicative of ferrous pigments, crystal deposition, and marked tissue degeneration. After vigorous coughing, she expectorated dark sediments and her symptoms and radiological abnormalities improved. There are a few such reports worldwide; however, this was the first case reported in Korea. Careful observation of aspiration-prone patients and early detection of iron pill aspiration may prevent iron pill-induced bronchial injury.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제70권5호
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• pp.423-427
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• 2011

Epithelioid sarcomas are rare soft tissue sarcomas with a high tumor grade and high local recurrence and metastasis rates. Although the lung is the most common site of metastasis, endobronchial metastasis hasn't been reported yet. We now report a case of epithelioid sarcoma with endobronchial metastasis. A 28-year-old man had recurrent pneumothorax and underwent wedge resection. He presented at our hospital with hemoptysis, dyspnea, and chest pain. Chest computed tomography revealed left pneumothorax, multiple lung nodules and endobronchial lesions at the right lower basal lobe. Bronchoscopy showed a hemorrhagic mass obstructing the bronchus of the right lower basal lobe. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed multiple nodular lesions in the left thigh muscles. The bronchoscopic biopsy of the endobronchial lesion and the muscle biopsy of the thigh showed the same feature epithelioid sarcoma. This is the first case report of an epithelioid sarcoma with endobronchial metastasis that was diagnosed by bronchoscopic biopsy.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.628-634
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• 2003

기관지확장증은 일반적으로 원인을 찾기 위한 광범위한 조사없이 증상적 치료를 하는 경우가 많으나 기관지확장증을 유발할 수 있는 원인을 아는 경우 특별한 치료 방침을 정할 수도 있다. X연관 무감마글로불린혈증은 세포질 내 X 염색체에 존재하는 Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) 유전자의 돌연변이에 의해 성숙 B 림프구가 분화하지 못하여 발생하는 체액성 면역결핍질환으로 반복적인 호흡기감염을 통해 기관지확장증을 유발한다. 이는 드문 유전적 질환으로 조기 발견과 주기적인 면역글로불린 치료가 중요하다. 저자들은 반복적인 감염의 과거력과 함께 미만성 기관지확장증을 가진 성인 남성에서 BTK 유전자의 돌연변이를 확인하여 X연관 무감마글로불린혈증을 진단하고 치료한 사례를 경험하여 이를 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.788-793
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• 1989

We have observed 501 cases of spontaneous pneumothorax from January 1981 to June 1989 at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Chonbuk National University Hospital. Of these, 57 patients have undergone thoracotomy to treat the pneumothorax after closed thoracostomy. These 57 patients were based on this retrospective clinical analysis, and the results were as follows: The ratio of male to female was 4.2:1 in male predominance and the old aged patients, over 50 years old, occupied 47.3% of all patients. Primary spontaneous pneumothorax was 19 cases and secondary spontaneous pneumothorax was 38 cases. The underlying pathology in secondary spontaneous pneumothorax was tuberculosis emphysema and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in 35 cases. The indications of thoracotomy were persistent air leakage in 23 cases recurrent pneumothorax in 21 cases, inadequate expansion in 13 cases. Rupture of bullae or blebs were most frequent operative and pathologic findings in persistent air leakage group and recurrent pneumothorax group. In inadequate expansion group, predominant finding was destructive lung lesion. Bullectomy and/or bullae ligation was most effective procedures in 36 cases [63%] for operative management of spontaneous pneumothorax. Duration of preoperative and postoperative chest tube indwelling day was 13.35 days and 8.05 days in persistent pneumothorax group, 8.92 days and 7.77 days in recurrent pneumothorax group, 13.23 days and 10.21 days in inadequate expansion group.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제65권1호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2008

월경성 객혈은 폐 자궁내막증에 의하여 주기적으로 월경이 시작할 때 발생하고 특별한 치료를 하지 않아도 월경이 끝나면 호전되는 특징을 가지고 있으며, 특징적인 임상 증상과 객혈을 일으킬 수 있는 다른 질환들을 배제한 다음 진단을 내리게 된다. 원인과 치료에 대해서는 아직 확립된 바가 없으나 가임기 여성에서는 내과적인 치료보다는 수술적 절제를 선택하는 경우가 많다. 저자들은 월경과 동반된 객혈을 주소로 내원한 23세 환자에서 기관지내시경 검사 및 흉부 전산화단층촬영으로 출혈 부위를 추정한 뒤 비디오 흉강경 수술을 통해 병소를 확인하고 치료한 예가 있어 보고하는 바이다.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.588-593
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• 1995

기관-기관지내에 발생하는 과립세포종은 신경세포에서 발생하는 양성종양으로서 기도폐쇄를 유발하여 2차적으로 폐내 증상(폐쇄성 폐렴, 기침, 흉통, 천명음, 각혈, 호흡곤란 등)를 유발한다. 저자들은 27세 여자환자에서 재발성 폐쇄성 폐렴상으로 나타난 과립세포종을 기관지내시경으로 발견, 조직검사상으로 확진하여 수술한 경우를 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.139-142
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• 1976

A 33 year old male patient was admitted with 20 years history of recurrent hemoptysis. On clinical examination, mild left chest discomfortness and foul odored sputum with occasional rusty hemoptysis were principal complaints noted. Chest X-ray film revealed moderately advanced active tuberculosis lesion on both upper lung fields, and hen-egg sized mass surrounded with linear crescent of air shadow in a cavity on his left upper lung field. On left thoracotomy, dense pleural adhesions on left apicoposterior segmental surface with multiple lymphnode enlargements were noted, and the soft encapsulated mass of $5{\times}5{\times}8cm$ was localized in the apicoposterior segment of the left upper lobe. Apicoposterior segment with anterior segment of the left upper lobe was resected. Cavity was opened to find a rusty grayish colored, fragile mass, which was confirmed as "fungus ball" of aspergillosis by histological section slide with Gomori staining. The authors report one case of pulmonary aspergilloma superinfected with previous long standing pulmonary tbc.

• Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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• 제63권1호
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• pp.72-77
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• 2007

저자 등은 19세 남자 환자에서 폐색전증을 동반한 원발성 항인지질증후군 증례를 경험하였기에 문헌 고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.