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Cavitary Lesion with Air-Fluid Level on Chest XRay

70+ year old man with PMH of latent TB
Cavitary Lesion ... Air-Fluid Level on Chest ... man with PMH of latent ... TB s/p treatment ... #Cavitary #CXR
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Droplets that contain bacilli ... affecting the lungs ... • Progressive lung ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Tuberculosis Overview

10 million new M. tuberculosis infections/year
Facultative intracellular rod-shaped bacteria
Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) accounts for 4.6% of
Droplets that contain bacilli ... affecting the lungs ... • Progressive lung ... and Culture • CXR ... disease • Check CXR
Radiologists use many terms to describe areas of decreased density or lucencies within the lung, like
lucencies within the lung ... , like cyst, cavity ... we describe a chest ... density in the lung ... visible wall #CXR
TB
This patient presented first with the CXR on the left.
The findings are:
Widespread ill-defined densities, which are
first with the CXR ... Cavity in the right ... reactivation of a latent ... A CXR some years ... #SecondaryTB #Cavitary
Septic emboli
Septic emboli usually present as multiple ill-defined nodules.
In about 50% cavitation is seen.
CT demonstrates more
densities iin the left lung ... cavitation in the right lung ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #CTChest #Septic ... #SepticEmboli #Cavity
Primairy TB is usually clinically silent.
In 5% of infected individuals the immunity is inadequate and clinically
reactivation of the latent ... On the CXR it is ... with cavitaty formation ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #Cavitary #SecondaryTB
Lung Abscess - Diagnosis and Management Summary

Lung Abscess Etiology:
 • Necrosis of lung parenchyma by a
disease: Pleuritic chest ... Blood cultures • CXR ... early disease) • CXR ... level seen • Chest ... westermani • Other: TB
Cavitation - Pneumonia
In virulent pyogenic infections an abscess may form within the consolidated lung as a
the consolidated lung ... coughed up, a cavity ... infection like TB ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... #CTChest #Cavity
Lungcancer
10% of lungcancers cavitate, most commonly squamous cell carcinoma.
Small cell lungcancer does not cavitate.
Bronchoalveolar carcinoma, or
Here a chest x-ray ... large cavitating lung ... Clinical #Radiology #CXR ... LungCancer #Cancer #Cavity ... #Cavitary #RadiologyAssistant