Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
Small cell carcinoma (SCC) is commonly of pulmonary origin. Pleural small cell carcinoma is a very uncommon feature. We report here a case of small cell carcinoma of the pleura in a 36 year old man. The diagnosis of primary disease SCC of the pleura was established by transparietal pleural biopsy in absence of any mediastino-pulmonary or extrathora...
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
Amyopathic dermatomyositis (ADM) is a clinical subtype of dermatomyositis, characterized by the absence of motor weakness and the presence of normal muscle enzyme levels. ADM is sometimes accompanied by neoplasm or interstitial pneumonia that shows a rapid progressive course both of them are associated with a poor prognosis. A 56-year-old woman wit...
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
A narghile is a water-pipe used to smoke a tobacco preparation. As the smoker inhales, the tobacco smoke is sucked down from the bowl and then bubbles up through the water into the air of the smoke chamber and then through the hose to the smoker. Its origins are mysterious and controversial. Nevertheless it remains, under different names, an object...
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
Many practitioners, especially young ones, find biostatistical analysis fastidious. However, there is a very usual tool for most basic calculations: Excel((c)) and similar software. This article proposes to help the reader, step by step, carry out many statistical functions. Although this paper does not avoid the advice of a specialist, it lets the...
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
Chest wall hydatidosis, rare even in the endemic countries, represents 0.09 to 0.3 % of all cases of thoracic echinococcosis. The authors report the case of a 76 year-old man presenting a chest wall mass 4 years after surgery for colic carcinoma. The mass presented both hypoechoic and hyperechoic structures in the ultrasound chest echography. There...
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
The impact of PET-CT in assessing non-small cell lung cancer was confirmed in the authors' practice. Its interest and the consequences in some patients misclassified with conventional assessment have been demonstrated.
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
CPM may be responsible for many clinical and radiological pictures that present difficulties in their diagnosis. Polymorphism is related to the type of malformation, its topography and the evolutive complications.
Published in Revue de pneumologie clinique
The authors report a rare case of low register systemic lupus erythematosus with renal attack and neurological armature by isoniazid. The patient was a 23-year-old woman presenting a lupus induced by isoniazid 1 month after the treatment of pleural tuberculosis. Antinuclear antibodies, anti-native DNA, anti-ENA, anti-Sm, anti-SSa, anti-SSb and anti...
Published in Revue de Pneumologie Clinique
Leptospirosis, an ubiquitous zoonotic disease, is a systemic infection usually producing fever with hepatorenal involvement, meningoenephalitis, and hemorrhage. Respiratory manifestations are less well known but have been described in certain regions such as Southeast Asia or the Reunion Island. From January 1978 through December 1994, 154 cases of...
