According to these results from the Spanish Group of Lung Metastases of Colo-Rectal Cancer, the combination of these four variables-disease-free interval, carcinoembryonic antigen level, laterality, and thoracic lymph node involvement-constitutes the first-choice survival causal model based on the clinical and pathologic factors most frequently referenced in literature.

The case of a 70-year-old male with lymphoblastic leukemia is reviewed, who presented the rare and almost always fatal complication of pulmonary mucormycosis, but who was treated satisfactorily with amphotericin B and surgery. The risk of massive hemoptysis in the course of mucormycosis that invades the lung vessels, makes us believe that surgery is an essential part of the management of this disease. It is suggested that the patient be operated as soon as the diagnosis is obtained, as we did in our case, to avoid other risks in combined management with amphotericin B.

Surgical adhesives are frequently used after pulmonary resection to prevent or reduce pulmonary air leakages, since leakages may cause complications delaying the removal of chest drainage tubes and prolonging in-hospital stay. In this paper, we present 2 patients who underwent curative-intent pulmonary resection for non-small-cell lung carcinoma, in which the biological adhesive BioGlue(®) was used. Follow-up fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomographic (FDG-PET/CT) imaging revealed hypermetabolic pulmonary nodular lesions. Subsequent surgical exploration showed that the lesions were foreign body reactions to the bioadhesive. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine false-positive follow-up FDG-PET/CT scans caused by the use of BioGlue(®) in pulmonary resection procedures.

El encondroma protuberans es una entidad rara, solo se han descrito 14 casos en la bibliografía. Radiológicamente puede presentar dudas diagnósticas con un osteocondroma, condrosarcoma de bajo grado y condroma periostal. Presentamos el caso de un niño de cinco años con un encondroma protuberans en falange proximal que experimentó un crecimiento acelerado durante su seguimiento, además presentaba dos encondromas convencionales en la misma mano. Fue tratado mediante resección marginal, curetaje y relleno con autoinjerto óseo, sin evidencia de recidiva a los 12 meses de seguimiento.

No abstract