Tuberculosis

Aspiration of pen part

Melanoma

Metastatic desease to mediastinum, pleura, axilary nodes and subcutaneus nodes of the thoracic skin.

Empyema

VATS as treatment for parapneumonic empyema.

Mediastinal recurrence 5 years after esophagectomy.

Invasion of retrocardiac tissue and left stem bronchus.

Sarcoidosis

Hypertensive pleural effusion

Perfaration of esophagus. Ivor Lewis esophagectomy.

After chemotherapy and radiation theraphy for local advanced esophageal cancer with nodal celiac metastasis, estenotic lesion was a consequence. Esophageal endoscopy for bouginage produced middle third rupture.

"Trapped lung" by chronic pleural effusion.

NSCLC. Mediastinal metastasis as bulky desease.

Cervical metastasis after esophagectomy

Three years after an esophagectomy for middle third scamous cell carcinoma, cervical metastasis produced complete obstruction for solid food.

Surgery was an uncommon approach, through an endoprothesis (portion of a 34 fr chest tube) from cervical esophagus to intrathoracic stomach.

Hamartoma

Another hamartoma. Young man (36), heavy smoker (20 years) presented at x-ray with an isolated pulmonary nodule (lingula).