Dear Friends,
Today’s images belong to a 67-year-old woman with pain in the chest.
What do you see?
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Dear Friends,
Showing additional axial CT images of the patient.
What do you see?
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Findings: PA chest radiograph shows a lytic lesion of the 3rd right rib, accompanied by an extrapulmonary sign (A, circle). Lateral view (not shown) is unremarkable.
The lesion is more obvious in the cone-down view (B, circle), specially when compared to a previous study (C, circle).
Axial CT confirms a permeative lesion of the rib (D-E, arrows), as well as lytic lesion in the posterior elements of the 4th thoracic vertebra (E, red arrow). A serendipitous finding is a nodule in the medial quadrant of the left breast (F, arrow), demonstrated in a subsequent mammography (G, arrow) and confirmed to be a carcinoma.
Final diagnosis: carcinoma of the breast with osseous metastases
Congratulations to Diogo who saw and described the rib lesion in the plain film.
Teaching point:remember that our most common error is missing obvious lesions.
Checklists help to correct oversights. I believe the rib lesion could have been found if you had applied the checklist recommended in webinar one (H).