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What does the chest radiograph show ?
There is round, cavitating lesion in the left mid zone.
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There is a differential diagnosis for this finding - give three possible diagnoses ?
The causes of a cavitating lung lesion include :
- Neoplasm
Squamous cell carcinoma is the most common neoplasm to cavitate
Metastases
- Infection
Including Staphylococcal pneumonia, Tuberculosis and Klebsiella
- Vascular
Infacrction secondary to septic emboli
- Granulomas
For example rheumatoid nodules
plus others
The diagnsosis in this case was found to be a carcinoma
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