Jacques Margery

..We prospectively evaluated the impact of combining FDG-PET with conventional staging methods, including computed tomography (CT), on the staging and management of patients with potentially resectable NSCLC...

..These advances create real hope for improvement, but also many interrogations since no standard treatment protocol has been clearly identified...

..Additional radiological abnormalities suggest an associated disease, notably infection or cancer, as has been described in the literature...

..This advances create hopes and interrogations because it is not currently know whether multimodality treatment will be the standard in MPM...

..The role of second-line chemotherapy (SLC) has still not been established in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) but SLC is increasingly used because many patients are still fit at the time of the progression of the disease...

..In palliative cases, if dyspnea is uncontrolled, benzodiazepine can be used and may represent ethic approach...

..Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection in the immunocompetent is generally silent or it may present as a mononucleosis like syndrome but, rarely, it can lead to symptomatic manifestations...

..Administration of high doses of corticosteroids led to a prompt symptomatic improvement...

..We discuss the etiologies of respiratory distress in acute myeloblastic leukaemia and the corticosteroid sensitivity of this myeloid disease...

..Scar sarcoidosis is a cutaneous demonstration of sarcoidosis arising on old cutaneous scars and generating nodular erythematous lesions...

..In the follow-up of irradiated patients, PET-Scan provides information on the nature of residual lesions and a possible recurrence...

..The patient was free of tumor relapse at nearly 3 years follow-up...

..This report is the first, which shows the results of (18)FDG CT-PET (standard and whole-body) under this situation...

..We report two cases of American histoplasmosis with pseudo-tumoral form, in immunocompetent subjects working in Venezuela, with a multinodular pulmonary presentation...

..A best cartography of node involvement and a best delineation of the tumor zone should allow an optimal radiotherapy. Lung cancer is a good example of the interest of this new method...

..Its contributions are being more and more precisely understood during the assessment of mediastinal and metastatic extension and it carries the hope of better therapeutic management and surveillance...

..No recurrence has been observed for eighteen Months. The diagnostic and therapeutic problems raised by Aspergillus fumigatus are well known in the immunocompromised subject, but can also be encountered in the immunocompetent subject...

..8). Surgical biopsy ruled out recurrence of Hodgkin's disease of the thymus and led to the diagnosis of thymic rebound. The aspect of the thymic compartment returned to normal spontaneously at one year...

..Imaging findings are extremely rare. We report hepatic and splenic nodules diagnosed on abdominal computed tomography with spontaneous regression...

..The authors report the case of a patient diagnosed with nonsmall cell lung cancer with bone and brain metastases. The patient presented a complete cerebral response for 17 months with erlotinib prescribed as a third line therapy...

..Adjuvant therapy is proposed for the histologically aggressive forms. Because of the possibility of local or distant recurrence and malignant transformation, long-term monitoring is strongly recommended...

..Bacteriological examination provides the diagnosis. New methods of genomic diagnosis (Gen-Probe) and culture now allow particularly rapid diagnosis. Outcome is always favorable with standard anti-tuberculosis treatment...

..The clinical course was rapidly favorable with later development of mediastinal fibrosis. This uncommon case illustrates the contribution of interventional radiology recently developed in the Principal Hospital in Dakar, Senegal...

..An acute viral pericarditis may reveal a congenital pericardial abnormality...

..This enables more accurate staging and has revolutionised the management of lung cancer. National and international guidelines describe the role of this technique...

..Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a disease of increasing incidence for which treatment options are limited. This study reports the clinical efficacy data for vinflunine, a novel microtubule inhibitor, in MPM...

..8g/m(2)cycle) and etoposide (300mg/m(2)cycle). Surgical resection remains the main step in the treatment of TC and the modalities of adjuvant treatment must be defined in further studies...

..Beside this technical criteria, two other factors have an impact on the therapeutic decision: symptom control and patient's personal expectations. The aim of the strategy is to determine an acceptable compromise in each situation...