Friday, April 07, 2006

Radiology Friday. 20 year old female

20 year old presents with cough. What's the abnormality and what's the diagnosis? (Hint: it is not the calcified granuloma that is circled, that would be too easy.)


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Final diagnosis to be posted Monday.

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Mike L said...
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Mike L said...

L Mainstem endobronchial lesion... did you see this originally on the CXR. If so, wow! Credit to you and your radiologist.

Baleeiro said...

I'm with ML: easy to spot it on the CT but I would probably have missed it on the CXR.
What did the bronch show?

Jennings said...

Bronch showed an endobronchial lesion well demarcated with nice smooth borders.
path showed a neoplasm arranged in a nesting and trabecular pattern and the immunohistochemical stains were positive for synaptophysin and chromogranin.
FINAL DIAGNOSIS: CARCINOID TUMOR.