Cavitating pulmonary nodule - lung adenocarcinoma
Diagnosis almost certain
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- updated 6 Dec 2022:
Nothing to disclose
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Irregular thick walled subpleural cavity filled with airgas is seen in the right upper lung lobe with adjacent pleural extensionthickening. There is a background of advanced destructive emphysema of both lungs more in thewith upper lobeslobe predominance.
Two hepatic focal lesions detected at upper abdominal cuts.
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Transthoracic needle biopsy revealed lung adenocarcinoma. The tumour size was 3 cm in the greatest dimension and hence staged as T1b. The hepatic focal lesions are provedwere later to bediagnosed as haemangiomas.
-<p>Transthoracic needle biopsy revealed <a href="/articles/adenocarcinoma-of-the-lung" title="Lung adenocarcinoma">lung adenocarcinoma</a>. The tumour size was 3 cm in the greatest dimension and hence staged as T1b. The hepatic focal lesions are proved later to be haemangiomas.</p>- +<p>Transthoracic needle biopsy revealed <a href="/articles/adenocarcinoma-of-the-lung" title="Lung adenocarcinoma">lung adenocarcinoma</a>. The tumour size was 3 cm in the greatest dimension and hence staged as T1b. The hepatic focal lesions were later diagnosed as haemangiomas.</p>
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