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Cavitary Lesion with Air-Fluid Level on Chest XRay

70+ year old man with PMH of latent TB
Air-Fluid Level on Chest ... and pleuritic chest ... #Cavitary #CXR ... #ChestXRay #Clinical ... #Pulmonary #Radiology
Cheerio Sign (Open Bronchus Sign) on Chest CT
 • Pulmonary nodule with a central lucency
 •
Cheerio Sign (Open ... Bronchus Sign) on Chest ... CT • Pulmonary ... #Sign #CT #Lung ... #radiology #clinical
Radiologists use many terms to describe areas of decreased density or lucencies within the lung, like
, like cyst, cavity ... we describe a chest ... visible wall #CXR ... #Cyst #Lung #Pulmonary ... #Diagnosis #Radiology
Progressive Massive Fibrosis aka Complicated Silicosis.
Silicosis is a fibrotic lung disease caused by inhalation of crystalline
lung disease caused ... #Silicosis #clinical ... #radiology #CXR ... #Chest #XRay #labeled ... #pulmonary
Pleuroparenchymal Fibroelastosis (PPFE) on Chest CT
47 M with idiopathic pleuroparenchymal fibroelastosis. Typical imaging findings:
- Upper lobe
Fibroelastosis (PPFE) on Chest ... subpleural and pleural fibrosis ... Rare - GVHD, lung ... #radiology #clinical ... #pulmonary #CXR
Progressive Massive Fibrosis on Chest X-Ray
In a construction worker presenting with shortness of breath.
Progressive Massive Fibrosis
on Chest X-Ray ... chronic interstitial lung ... #Chest #XRay #CXR ... #silicosis #clinical ... #radiology
Pulmonary Tuberculosis - Patterns of Involvement
 • Scarring, Nodules and Consolidation
    - Lobar
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ... consolidation - Fibrosis ... #TB #Patterns #chest ... #xray #clinical ... #radiology #CXR
Septic emboli
Septic emboli usually present as multiple ill-defined nodules.
In about 50% cavitation is seen.
CT demonstrates more
lesions than the chest ... in the proper clinical ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #CTChest # ... #SepticEmboli #Cavity
There is a hydropneumothorax.
Notice the air-fluid level (blue arrow).
The upper lobe is still attached to the
attached to the chest ... There is a lung ... airways leading to pulmonary ... #Clinical #Radiology ... #CXR #Pneumothorax
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