Lung adenocarcinoma with peculiar growth to the pulmonary artery and thrombus formation: report of a case

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cases of pulmonary artery masses have only rarely been reported, and the optimal type of the diagnosis and treatment is controversial.</p> <p>Case Presentation</p> <p>An 81-year-old woman was found to have an abnormal shadow on chest X-ray film. Computed tomography showed an irregularly bordered tumor centered in the hilar region extending from segment 6 to the middle lobe of the right lung. Pulmonary angiography showed complete occlusion of the trunk at the periphery proximal to the bifurcation of the posterior ascending branch. Based on bronchoscopic biopsy of the tumor, an adenocarcinoma was diagnosed. Middle and lower lobectomy was performed. Histopathologically, the adenocarcinoma had invaded the tunica intima of the pulmonary artery and also replaced the endothelium in the same region. Although a large thrombus was found at the vessel invasion site of the adenocarcinoma in the pulmonary artery, there were no malignant findings in the thrombus itself.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>This is the first reported case of radical resection of a lung cancer with invasion along the pulmonary artery wherein a benign thrombus had formed. In general, surgery would be the treatment of choice for a pulmonary artery mass.</p

A backpacker habitus: the body and dress, embodiment and the self

As all cultures ‘dress’ the body through clothing, tattooing and other forms of body adornment such as cosmetics, dress offers a useful lens through which to explore the ways in which identities are constituted in modern leisure and tourism cultures. An analysis of the dress and embodied subjectivity of western backpackers in Nepal finds that dress is constitutive of self-identity and the ways backpackers imagine themselves. This study argues that dress remains an important aspect of a secondary socialization that, in an evolving process, leads to specific (western) backpacker habitus. The use of Pierre Bourdieu as a theoretical resource unravels the relationship between body and dress, embodiment and the self and shows how dress embellishes the body by adding an array of meanings within backpacking culture