Chest injury due to blunt trauma

ST Liman, A Kuzucu, AI Tastepe… - European journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Objective: Given its importance in trauma practice, we aimed to determine the pathologies
associated with blunt chest injuries and to analyze the accurate identification of patients at …

Horner's syndrome as a complication in thoracic surgical practice

SO Kaya, ST Liman, LS Bir, G Yuncu… - European journal of …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To determine the incidence, reasons and prognosis about Horner's syndrome in
thoracic surgical patients. Methods: In this prospective clinical study, 933 adult patients were …

[HTML][HTML] Survival of biphasic pulmonary blastoma

ST Liman, T Altinok, S Topcu, AI Tastepe, A Uzar… - Respiratory …, 2006 - Elsevier
Pulmonary blastoma is a rare malignant lung tumor with a poor prognosis. It is composed of
immature mesenchymal and epithelial components that resemble fetal lung tissue. We …

Thoracic actinomycosis

Aİ Taştepe, NG Ulaşan, ŞT Liman… - European journal of …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Objective: Thoracic actinomycosis is a disease that is difficult to diagnose because its
appearance varies from similarities with bronchogenic carcinoma to pneumonitis-like tuberculosis …

Is a small-bore catheter efficient for most pleural pathologies?

ST Liman, A Elicora, AG Akgul, S Topcu, S Özbay… - Surgery today, 2014 - Springer
Purpose Chest tubes are used for drainage of the pleural cavity. Traditionally, large-bore
catheters are inserted for all indications, but there has been a recent tendency to use small-…

[PDF][PDF] False positive PET scan deserves attention

AG Akgul, ST Liman, S Topcu, M Yuksel - J BUON, 2014 - jbuon.com
Purpose: Pulmonary focal lesions are frequently identified incidentally. Furthermore, a final
diagnosis is really a considerable problem for patients having risk factors for malignancy or …

Excision of ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma via parasternal videomediastinoscopy

ST Liman, S Topcu, E Dervisoglu, GD Gorur… - Annals of Thoracic and …, 2014 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Mediastinum is one of the place in which ectopic parathyroid adenomas can be located.
Here, an ectopic mediastinal parathyroid adenoma, which was excised via parasternal …

Stenotic bridging bronchus: a very rare entity

S Topcu, ST Liman, HT Sarisoy, A Babaoglu… - The Journal of Thoracic …, 2006 - jtcvs.org
Discussion Gonzalez-Crussi and colleagues 1 first described BB as a right lower lobe bronchus
(often with a middle lobe bronchus) arising from the left main bronchus and bridging the …

The effects of estradiol and progesterone on the synthesis of collagen in tracheal surgery

ST Liman, CO Kara, F Bir, B Yildirim, S Topcu… - International journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE:: Estrogen and progesterone have the decreasing effect on massive collagen
synthesis in wound healing. Here, it is aimed to determine their decreasing effect on collagen …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of malignant thrombus in an invasive thymoma with intravascular growth

…, A Akça, N Inan, AG Akgül, ST Liman - Journal of Radiology …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We report an unusual case of an invasive thymoma with a thrombus in the right atrium and
describe the radiological findings consistent with the malignant nature of the thrombus. The …