CASE 676: LUNG TUMOR or TB LUNG, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ HỮU LINH, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A 57 year-old female patient with a left lung (lingula) mass on chest X-Ray film on January 2023 without any symptom.

But its size changes for months on the chest X-ray film (Mars 2023).

Lung ultrasound notes a consolidation region #44x31mm of left lower lobe of lung, with air bronchogramme, and soft code of elastography ultrasound (ARFI technique).

Chest MSCT later confirms the 50 mm left lung mass and biopsy.

Result of biopsy is a TB lung mass with TB cyst, caseous necrosis,  lymph cells  and Langhans cells.

The female patient then starts a TB regimen. 

CASE 675: SCHWANNOMA of C5 ROOT of LEFT BRACHIAL PLEXUS, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ THỊ THANH THẢO, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

A  56 year-old female patient  with left facial numbness [?] for 3 days.

Neck ultrasound at left supraclavicular region detects # 8-19 mm hypoechoic enlargement of left brachial plexus maybe due to schwannoma or neurinoma. While ultrasound examines at the neck region the female patient feels her left upper arm numb sensation (due to affecting the left upper brachial nerves from C 5 root).

MRI confirms a schwannoma tumor #21x12mm of left C 5 root.

Surgery removes the tumor of C 5 root from left brachial plexus which the pathohistology result is the schwannoma of the C5 root.

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CASE 674: BREAST SARCOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr LÊ THÔNG LƯU, Dr JASMINE THANH XUÂN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

 A  61 year-old female patient  with right breast tumor and axillary nodes.

Breast ultrasound detects a  # 28x10 mm mass of the right breast BI-RADS 4 B and second tumor of this one, #19×10mm. And elastography ultrasound notes a hard code of it.

Breast MRI represents 2 right breast tumors, BI-RADS 5.

Biopsy of right axillary node is inflammed node, but result of core biopsy of the right breast tumor is poor differentiated breast sarcoma (C 49).

Total right mastectomy is performed,  and the final results are the right breast sarcoma and the chronic inflammed axillary node.

CASE 673: RENAL INFARCTION, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NGUYỄN NGHIỆP VĂN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

A 50 year-old HTA female patient  with left flank pain, headache and red blood cells in urine for 3 days.

Ultrasound detects a 93x43 milimeter hypoechoic left kidney  without Doppler signal via SMI technique while the right one  110x47 mm is normal.

Elastography of left kidney SWE is in hard code.

MSCT Angio represents left kidney atresia as thrombosis of the left renal artery which leads it to be total obstruction.

It’s a left renal infarction case which is in late inspection.

CASE 672: HYDATID CYST in MYOCARDIUM, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr TRẦN THỊ MINH PHƯỢNG, MEDICAL MEDICAL CENTER, VIETNAM.

A  75 year-old female patient  with asthenia and dyspnea for one year. The eosinophil  proportion of white blood cell is of 0.14 and Echinococcus (hydated) IgM Elisa negative is of 0.16 index.

Cardiac ultrasound detects a 30 mm simple cyst (Gharbi type I  hydatid cyst) in myocardium at the cardiac apex.

MSCT and MRI confirm the cardiac cyst in myocardium at the apex of the heart.

Surgery removes successfully the hydatid cyst with larva from heart. 

Microbioparasitology result is hydatid cyst with larva of Echinococcus sp.

Hydated cyst in myocardium a very rare site coming over that usually appears in liver, spleen, lung ... instead.

Sequencing result is Echinococcus ortleppi.

CASE 671: BetaHCG SECRETION by a PULMONARY CARCINOMA, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr NEANG SI PHATS, Dr HUỲNH TRÁC LUÂN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM.

A  42 year-old female patient,  TPAL 1001 with critical menorrhegia for one month  and weight loss and anemia. HTA:100/70 mmHg, PA:110 bpm. W = 40 kg H: 155mm, BMI: 16.6.

TVS ultrasound detects only uterine fibroma, but beta HCG highly rising= 69,474 mlU/mL.

Total body MRI detects a 98 mm right lung tumor and a 25 mm uterine fibroma.

Chest X-Ray film represents tumor of the right lung which is thought a beta HCG secretion tumor.

Lung biopsy result is a non small cell adenocarcinoma, stage IIIc, invasive at lung.

As the poor status of the patient, the current clinical management is blood transfusion to improve her life in waiting for a reexamination in a cancer hospital.

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CASE 670: CHRONIC AORTIC DISSECTION, Dr PHAN THANH HẢI, Dr TRẦN THANH NGA, Dr VÕ NG THÀNH NHÂN, MEDIC MEDICAL CENTER, HCMC, VIETNAM

A 62 year-old HTA female patient with asthenia, impermanent chest pain for one month, is diagnosed aortic dissection by color Doppler ultrasound. She has got slightly leg edema for one week before ultrasound examination.

HTA: 150/80 mmHg, HR : 115 b/min.

Chest X-ray shows pneumonia of upper lobe of the right lung without pleural effusion.

Ultrasound detects a thick flap inside the abdominal aortic lumen which separates the 22 milimeter aorta into 2 colored Doppler code lumens. The aortic dissection represents from thorax to right iliac artery. Bloodstreams in two lumens of the aorta are different with one velocity of 66 cm/s lower than the other, 166 cm/s. 

AngioMSCT confirmes aortic dissection from aortic arc in the chest to iliac artery in thr abdomen. The diameters of aorta are ascending 35mm, aortic arc, 33mm, abdominal, 30 mm respectively. The left kidney artery comes from the lower velocity lumen.

Stenting the aortic dissection is the appropriate management for the chronic aortic dissection w

and antihypertensive treatment.

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