Right Upper Lung Mass

Agenesis of right upper lobe of lung

Agenesis of the right upper lobe of the lung is a very uncommon congenital anomaly and may be referred to chest clinics in adulthood for an incidental finding of abnormal chest radiograph. The presentations of chest radiograph may imitate many common situations such as right upper lobe collapse presenting as an ipsilateral shifting of the mediastinum or elevation of the right hemidiaphragm due ...

Ipsilateral partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection in right lung cancer with absent right upper lobe

A partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) is an uncommon congenital anomaly. This report documents the case of a 48-year-old man with PAPVC which was incidentally discovered with right lung cancer and absence of right upper lobe. Right pneumonectomy was successfully performed, and the patient had an uneventful postoperative course. Asymptomatic PAPVC without septal defect is extre...

Agenesis of Right Lung: A Rare Congenital Disorder

  Pulmonary agenesis is a rare congenital anomaly in which there is absence of pulmonary parenchyma as well as its bold vessels. It is an unusual cause of respiratory distress in newborn. Unilateral agenesis of lung is often associated with other congenital anomalies. The condition may lead to diagnostic difficulties.   Right pulmonary agenesis has poor prognosis. Here we present a case of fem...

Roentgenogram of the month. A middle-aged man with a right upper lobe mass. Rounded atelectasis of the right upper lobe with bilateral pleural thickening.

The incidental lung lesion: effect of cardiac stress on the MIBI uptake in the lung mass

A discrete MIBI avid lung lesion was found in cinematic views of myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) of a 59 year-old woman. Interestingly, the abnormal uptake in the lung was detectable only in the rest phase images and not in the images acquired in the stress phase. MPI was performed for pre-operation cardiac risk assessment before correction surgery for spinal canal stenosis.  She had no...