Two-year disease remission of an unresectable basaloid thymic carcinoma with second line chemotherapy drugs: report of a case.

Thymic carcinomas are extremely infrequent neoplasms (15% of all thymic epithelial tumors). Basaloid carcinoma is a peculiar tumor that represents no more than 2% of those infrequent thymic carcinomas. Surgical excision is the recommended treatment. As it's extremely rare, there is no evidence of the impact of different modalities of treatment. There are no reported cases that did not include surgery as part of their management. We herein present a case of an unresectable thymic basaloid carcinoma treated only with concurrent chemotherapy and radiotherapy that obtained a complete remission and free of disease after 2 years.

Diagnóstico de secuestro pulmonar en adultos / Diagnosis of lung sequestration in Adults

He leído en el Nro. 2 de la RAMR 2014 "Diagnóstico de secuestro pulmonar mediante tomografía computada" de los Dres Gabriela Tabaj, Eduardo Giugno y Josefina López Moras, siendo muy claro y gráfico, ya que como se describe en el mismo, se trata de un segmento de parénquima pulmonar sin comunicación con el árbol bronquial y aporte sanguíneo de una arteria sistémica, demostrada en esta situación