Background: Mediastinal lymphadenopathy in patients with malignancy is a common
clinical problem in tuberculosis-endemic countries. The recently developed endobronchial …

Background: Sonographic features of lymph nodes on endobronchial ultrasound (EBUS)
have been shown to be useful in prediction of malignancy in mediastinum and hilum. The aim …

Pulmonary nocardiosis is a subacute or chronic necrotizing pneumonia caused by aerobic
actinomycetes of the genus Nocardia and rare in immune-competent patients. A 35-year-old …

Percutaneous vertebroplasty is a minimal invasive procedure that is applied for the treatment
of osteoporotic vertebral fractures. During vertebroplasty, the leakage of bone cement …

Background: Expiratory central airway collapse (ECAC) is abnormal central airway
narrowing during expiration. ECAC involves 2 different pathophysiological entities as …

Hydatid cyst is a parasitic infestation caused by Echinococcus granulosus. Lungs are the
second most common site of involvement after liver. The diagnosis of complicated pulmonary …

Aim 18-Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography–computed tomography (PET/CT)
is an imaging modality that is often used to help differentiate benign from malignant …

Objective: Medical thoracoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that is performed by
experienced pulmonologists under local anesthesia and conscious intravenous sedation. It …

… Erdoğan Çetinkaya1, Mehmet Akif Özgül1, Gamze Kırkıl2, Güler Özgül1, Murat Acat1,
Emine Kamiloğlu1, Hilal Onaran1 …

On limited data on healthy volunteers and experimental animals, tear gas is accepted as a
safe crowd control agent. There is not adequate information about the respiratory effects of …