Benign Tumor Mimicking Malignancy

A rare benign tumor mimicking malignancy.

The admission chest X-ray revealed consolidation and atelectasis at basal part of the right lung (Figure 1). Chest computed tomography (CT) demostrated pleural thickening, pleural effusion, and middle lobe lateral segment atelectasis of the right side suggesting bronchial obstruction (Figure 2). The patient underwent fiberoptic bronchoscopy which showed an endobronchial polypoid lesion without ...

Cecal Giant Lipoma Mimicking Malignancy

Reducing error: benign abnormalities mimicking malignancy when reporting scans of patients with known malignancy

Conclusion The ability to accurately differentiate between benign and malignant disease can be challenging and can contribute to reporting discrepancies even amongst experienced radiologists. This can be especially demanding when imaging patients with known malignancy and is a concern for general and specialist radiologists. Being aware of abnormalities that mimic malignancy will help to increa...

Primary hyperparathyroidism with brown tumor mimicking metastatic bone malignancy.

Bone and joint pain are commonly encountered conditions in daily practice. In the elderly, when osteolytic lesions are identified in imaging studies, metastatic bone tumor is the first impression that comes to the clinician's mind. Although the worst-case scenario should be ruled in, other differential diagnoses such as metabolic bone disease should be considered as well. We report a case of br...

cecal giant lipoma mimicking malignancy