Dear Friends,
Today´s case is provided by my good friend Alberto Villanueva.
PA radiograph belong to a 58-year-old man with cough and weight loss. Gastrectomy for stomach cancer in 2006. A previous film is shown for comparison.
Do you see any abnormality?
More images will be shown on Wednesday
Dear Friends,
showing a PA chest radiograph taken three months later.
What do you see?
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Findings: PA radiograph taken in February 2018 shows an area of increased opacity in the subcarinal region (A, red arrows), more evident when compared with a previous film of 2014 (B). This finding was not detected.
Three months later the patient returned with increasing dyspnea. PA chest radiograph shows the typical appearance of RLL collapse, evidenced by a basal triangular shadow (C, arrow), downward hilar displacement (C, yellow arrow) and tracheal displacement. The subcarinal mass is now more evident (C, red arrow). Enhanced coronal CT shows the central mass (D, red arrows) as well as the RLL collapse (D, arrow).
Final diagnosis: oat-cell tumor of the lung
Congratulations to Elisa and Krister A, who were the first to detect the subcarinal mass in the initial examination
Teaching point: most of you detected the subcarinal mass that was missed in the original reading. This case emphasizes the importance of comparing with previous films to detect subtle findings.