Caceres’s Corner Case 59 (Update: Solution)
Dear Friends,
Muppet insists on presenting another case of inspiration/expiration films to test your knowledge. Showing radiographs of a 29-year-old asymptomatic female. What do you think is happening?
Dear Friends,
Muppet insists on presenting another case of inspiration/expiration films to test your knowledge. Showing radiographs of a 29-year-old asymptomatic female. What do you think is happening?
Dear Friends,
While I was in Vienna, Muppet prepared the following case for you: 21-year-old girl with marked dyspnea, no fever. What do you think it’s happening?
Dear Friends,
Dr. Manel Martínez, a long-time friend of the Muppet, has provided the following case: an asymptomatic 67-year-old man in whom a mass was discovered in the chest radiographs.
Diagnosis:
1. Aortic aneurysm
2. Hydatic cyst of lung
3. Left pulmonary artery aneurysm
4. None of the above
Dear friends,
Muppet cannot find difficult cases and, despite himself, is forced to show easy ones. Today we’re showing radiographs of a 48-year-old woman who has had moderate dyspnea for a while.
Diagnosis:
1. Swyer-James syndrome
2. Tumour left main bronchus
3. Old TB left lung
4. None of the above
Dear friends,
Showing images of a 30-year-old male, asymptomatic. What would be your diagnosis?
1. Pericardial cyst
2. Lung tumour
3. TB lymph nodes
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
My colleague Jordi Andreu, who is almost as mischievous as the Muppet, presents the following case: a 45-year-old woman with pain in the chest.
Dear Friends,
Muppet is traveling abroad on a dangerous mission. If he doesn’t make it back, he hopes you will remember him fondly. For this reason he is showing a clear-cut case of pre-op radiographs in a 81-year-old patient with prostate carcinoma and right shoulder pain. Diagnosis?
1. Lung carcinoma
2. Fibrous tumour of pleura
3. Chest wall metastases
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Showing radiographs of a 42-year-old woman with high fever.
Diagnosis:
1. Carcinoma of the lung
2. Pulmonary abscess
3. Loculated empyema
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Muppet wishes to present the case of a 75-year-old woman with bilateral mastectomies for carcinoma 10 and 7 years previously. Chest radiographs and CT are shown.
Diagnosis:
1. Pleural metastases
2. Mesothelioma
3. Pleural TB
4. None of the above
Dear Friends,
Muppet is so happy to have reached our 50th case, that he wants everybody to get the right answer. Here we have radiographs of a 52-year-old man with mild fever, blood-tinged sputum and left chest pain.
Diagnosis:
1. Carcinoma of the lung
2. Tuberculosis
3. Pulmonary embolism
4. None of the above