Abdul Majid Dar

Minimally invasive transthoracotomy–transphrenotomy for concurrent hepatic and pulmonary hydatid disease

Combined liver and lung hydatid cysts are rare, but pose a challenge in terms of accessibility. The objective of the study was to find an alternative approach to conventional two‐stage posterolateral thoracotomy and laparotomy or single‐stage extensive thoracolaparotomy.

Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture, a diagnostic dilemma in the presence of eventration: a case report

Eventration of the diaphragm is the condition where the muscle is permanently elevated, but retains its continuity and attachments to the costal margins. Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is a recognized consequence of high velocity blunt trauma to the abdomen usually a result of motor vehicle accident. Multi-slice CT and Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the pre-operative evaluation of trauma patients, diaphragmatic rupture can be still overlooked if not evaluated with the fair degree of clinical suspicion, more so if it is associated with an eventration of diaphragm - as was in our case.

Intrapulmonary Heterotopic Pancreas Presenting as Lung Abscess

Ectopic pancreas in the lung is an extremely rare entity. A 17-year-old girl presented with a cystic lesion in the lower lobe of the right lung with features of sepsis. Exploration revealed a huge infected cyst bearing a nodule on its wall, in the right lower lobe, extending to the middle lobe, which proved to be pancreatic in origin (exocrine tissue only) on histopathology.