Weekly Chest CasesArchive of Old Cases

Case No : 1144 Date 2019-10-04

  • Courtesy of Ye Ra Choi, Moon Young Kim, Kwang Nam Jin / Boramae Medical Center
  • Age/Sex 76 / F
  • Chief ComplaintChronic cough, S/P PPPD due to distal CBD cancer, T2N0, S/P STG BII due to stomach cancer, T2N0
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
BALT lymphoma
Radiologic Findings
Fig.1. Chest PA shows mild fibrostreaky and nodular opacities in the left upper lung zone, which is considered to be old TB sequelae. Otherwise, there is no remarkable findings.
Fig. 2. The initial low dose chest CT scan shows an 11mm sized subpleural ill-defined part-solid nodule containing tiny cystic component in the right basal lung.
Fig. 3. After 4months, the nodule increased to 16mm with increased subsolid portion.
Brief Review
Please refer to
Case 272, Case 299, Case 426, Case 811,
References
Keywords
lung, lymphoma,

No. of Applicants : 47

▶ Correct Answer : 3/47,  6.4%
  • - Saitama-Sekishinkai Hosptal , Japan MIHOKO YAMAZAKI
  • - Seoul National University Hospital , Korea (South) Ju Gang Nam
  • - Chonbuk National University Hospital , Korea (South) KUM JU CHAE
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 8/47,  17.0%
  • - Mayo Clinic , United States AKITOSHI INOUE
  • - , Korea (South) HYEYOUNG CHOI
  • - Other , Korea (South) SEONGSU KANG
  • - National Center for Global Health and Medicine , Japan MASATOSHI HOTTA
  • - The University of Tokyo Hospital , Japan RYO KUROKAWA
  • - Toranomon Hospital , Japan KAORU SUMIDA
  • - Ichinomiya Nishi Hospital , Japan Takao Kiguchi
  • - , Japan YUMI MAEHARA
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