Caceres’ Corner Case 82 (Update: Solution)

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Dear Friends,

Muppet believes that the last week of the year deserves an unusual case. Images belong to a 61 year-old woman with frank haemoptysis for one week.

What would you say about the LLL lesion? Leave your thoughts and diagnosis in the comments section and come back on Friday for the answer.


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    27 Responses to : Caceres’ Corner Case 82 (Update: Solution)

    1. genchi bari italia says:

      …”crescent air sign”:opacità polmonare contornata da immagine rx-trasparente a forma di mezzaluna.Si osserva nei processi di necrosi polmonare nelle fasi di risposta immunitaria al focolaio di necrosi, da parte dei granulociti.Aspergillosi invasiva e semi-invasiva, nonchè in altre condizioni più rare(TBC-Aneurisma di Rasmussen in tbc,ascesso polmonare ed infezione da pneumocistys Jrovenecj).Auguri di buon anno…..intanto il Bari vince in traferta per 1 a 0 a Novara…

      • Jose Caceres says:

        You started all the young people thinking. Congratulations and Happy New Year.

        • genchi bari italia says:

          …Galattico professore…il Bari non demorde….fallito l’attacco centrale ora si sposta sulle ali….grazie al tuo aiuto….la densità del nodulo …essa è alta e disomogenea….allora penso se i c-ANCA sono elevati ad una vasculite di Wageners….essa si manifesta con noduli polmonari, senza predilezione di sede, con possibile cavitazione del nodulo ed “halo-sign” alla TC.Deformato il soma di D12(x osteoporosi)

          • Jose Caceres says:

            Ooooh!The shoot went wide…!
            No goal this time!

            • genchi bari italia says:

              …Happy new year…you’re simply the best, Professor!Mi dici se almeno il”crescent air sign” è esatto? Oppure devo rivedere la semeiotica di base….tra le altre cause, molto rare,del segno , ci sono la bronchectasia cistia e la plomonite, lipoidea circoscritta? Mando in campo le riserve?

    2. Gyan says:

      Guessing…Pulmonary hamartoma or AV malformation?

      • Jose Caceres says:

        Bad guess ;-)). I believe the air crescent sign (Genchi Bari dixit) eliminates AV malformation. Hamartoma cannot be excluded, but the last week of the year deserves a better diagnosis!

    3. Yp says:

      Av malformation?

    4. Gyan says:

      DD: av malformation/pulmonary sequestration/hamartoma?

    5. Mila says:

      In the LLL there’s a nodule with “air crescent” sign, typical to a cavern with aspergilloma. The cavern might indicate the Tbc, but the location is wrong. There are larger lymph nodes in the left hilum. I can see 2 small nodules in the posterior segments of the LLL. I`m guessing that it might be metastases or sarkoidosis- but I suppose in these conditions changes should be bilateral…
      Happy New Year Proffessor! Hope to see lots of unusual cases next year:)

    6. gus says:

      i agree with mila and genchi bari italia
      In the LLL there’s a nodule with “air crescent” sign the location is not typical for aspergilloma but it can be in any cavitation.
      the location make’s my to think about aspergilloma in a pulmonary sequestration cavity or a pulmonary hydatid infection but first of all must to exclude the diagnosis of a bronchogenic carcinoma

    7. sahar ahmad says:

      Air crescent sign can be seen in H. Cyst as well as in Mycetoma , the history of hemoptysis is suggestive of mycetoma , however .

    8. gus says:

      i would like to ask something (may be is stupid)before descrip the density.
      is intrapulmonary lesion?

      • Jose Caceres says:

        Yes, it is intrapulmonary. You cannot be absolutely sure on the radiographs.
        But I have a CT…

    9. gus says:

      i think we have a mix ,high density node with (non central) coarse calcifications , well defined borders and “air crescent” sign in the LLL just behind the direction of the major fissure.
      that exclude the hydatid infection (there is not calcifications)
      professor i smell a very good case 🙂

      • Jose Caceres says:

        Good. Thursday evening is your deadline (unless somebody else comes with the correct answer first)

    10. radioimager says:

      AP and Lat views show a mass with an irregular border, inside a thin-walled cavity, located in the left lower lobe with an air-crescent sign. There are few ill defined area of low attenuation noted in the mass could be representing air bronchogram/hemorrhages. The location is atypical for Tuberculosis and Aspergilloma. the first line of thinking is Primary/metastatic carcinoma and a histopathology is strongly recommended, clinical history of frank hemoptysis and age of the patient well correlate with malignancy.

      • Jose Caceres says:

        I agree with your interpretation, which would be adequate in your daily reading. Remember this is an unusual case, though.

        • radioimager says:

          HYDATID is another possibility as hydatid in lung do not calcify

          • Jose Caceres says:

            I have never seen a calcified hydatid cyst in the lung. However, perhaps there is a report in some obscure journal about a guy who has two dozen of such cases!

    11. Jose Caceres says:

      I agree with your interpretation, which would be adequate in your daily reading. Remember this is an unusual case, though.

    12. Lola la Piconera says:

      And what about somtehing calcified being inside bullae conected with a bronchus i.e a broncholith or “bullaelith”; or a foreing body. May we know if the patient suffered some previous procedure? i.e. bronchography or somtehing like plombage or surgery.

    13. genchi bari italia says:

      ….GRAZIEEEEEEE!!!!!