منابع مشابه
Pathologic Review of Cystic and Cavitary Lung Diseases
Pulmonary cystic and cavitary lesions caused by diverse etiologies are commonly encountered in chest imaging. The terms "cyst" and "cavity" are used to describe air-filled regions in the center of a nodule or consolidation of the lung. To date, only radiologic aspects of these lesions have been addressed. The morphologies of pulmonary cystic and cavitary lesions exhibit a broad spectrum, rangin...
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A 52-year-old male smoker presented with a 1-week history of fever, left-sided pleuritic chest pain, and body aches. Four days later, cough with hemoptysis developed. He visited the local hospital and was suspected to have left-sided parapneumonic pleural effusion. Repeated attempts at needle aspiration yielded a small amount of pleural fluid, which was exudative with a total leukocyte count of...
متن کاملCavitary lung lesions.
A 64-year-old man presented with unintentional weight loss of 22 kg in the preceding 9 months, cough, night sweating and low-grade fever. The lag time between onset of symptoms and first medical visit was explained by a long history of homelessness and intravenous drug abuse. Posteroanterior chest radiogram showed biapical large cavities (Fig. 1, arrows), as well as reticulo-nodular opacities, ...
متن کاملCavitary lung disease.
A 20-year-old female Ethiopian refugee presented with a 6-month history of cough and progressive left shoulder tip pain. After extensive investigation, which failed to demonstrate a cause, she proceeded to thoracotomy, where a 25-cm length of tubing was found that had perforated the left hemidiaphragm and had extended into the apex of the left lung. This appeared to have arisen as a complicatio...
متن کاملT lymphocyte phenotypic profile in lung segments affected by cavitary and non-cavitary tuberculosis.
Clinical manifestations of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) may depend on a complex interaction between the host and the pathogen. Clinical outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis are variable, ranging from asymptomatic lifelong infection to parenchymal lung destruction, resulting in cavitary lesions. To investigate the hypothesis that local cellular immune response may affect presentation and outcome in...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Chest
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0012-3692
DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2018.02.026