Weekly Chest CasesArchive of Old Cases

Case No : 522 Date 2007-10-29

  • Courtesy of Sun Young Jeong, MD, Kyung Soo Lee, MD. / Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea.
  • Age/Sex 71 / M
  • Chief ComplaintLeft chest wall mass with pleuritic chest pain and fever (onset - 10 days ago) 30 years ago, he was diagnosed as pulmonary TB and was treated with anti-TB medicine
  • Figure 1
  • Figure 2
  • Figure 3
  • Figure 4

Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
Pyothorax-associated diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (PAL)
Radiologic Findings
Chest radiograph shows a large mass-like lesion with pleural calcification in the left lower hemithorax. A bulging soft tissue lesion is also noted in the left lower chest wall.
Enhanced CT scan demonstrates thick pleural calcification in the left lower hemithorax, and extensive mass-like consolidation occupying left lower lobe with transdiaphragmatic and transmural extension to the chest and abdominal wall. This lesion also extends to the retroperitoneum and involves the left kidney.
Brief Review
Please refer to
Case 460,
References
Keywords
Chest wall, Pleura, Lymphproliferative disorder, Lymphoma,

No. of Applicants : 59

▶ Correct Answer : 23/59,  39.0%
  • - Osaka University, Japan Osamu Honda
  • - KAUMS, Kashan, Iran Ebrahim Razi
  • - Regional Imaging Riverina, Australia Rashid Hashmi
  • - Gimpo Woori Hospital, Korea Son Youl Lee
  • - Ewha Womans University MokDong Hospital, Korea Yoo Kyung Kim
  • - Dept. of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India Ram Prakash Galwa
  • - Pittwater Radiology, Australia Julie Arora
  • - Armidale Radiology, Australia Saurabh Khandelwal
  • - Nirman Hitech CT MR centre & Apollo Clinic, Kandivali, Mumbai, India Jeshil R. Shah
  • - CHU Grenoble, France Bing Fabrice
  • - Maimonides Medical Center; Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.A. Naomi Twersky
  • - China Medical University Hospital, Taiwan Jun-Jun Yeh
  • - Sunder Lal Jain Hospital, New Delhi, India Sanjeev Vachher
  • - Annemasse, Polyclinique De Savoie, France Gay-Depassier Philippe
  • - Universidad DE Chile Cristobal Ramos Gomez
  • - Japan A. Tamura
  • - Max Hospital, New Delhi, India Vickrant Malhotra
  • - Armed Forces ChunCheon Hospital (AFCC), Korea Chae Hun Lim
  • - Annecy hospital, France Gilles Genin
  • - Hospital Sotiria, Athens, Greece Vasilios Tzilas
  • - Yongsan Hospital, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Korea Jae Seung Seo
  • - Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital, Korea Eil Seong Lee
  • - Vital imaging centre, Mumbai, India Ganesh Agrawal
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 13/59,  22.0%
  • - Dept. of radiology, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Korea Bae Geun Oh
  • - Registrar in Radiology, UHL NHS Trust, UK A. Donuru
  • - VIVUS SMRC Heart centre, Goa, India Paresh Desai
  • - E-Da hospital, Taiwan Yu-Feng Wei
  • - Lilavati Hospital & Rsearch Centre, Mumbai, India Mahavir Swami
  • - UCLA Medical center, Los Angeles, USA Fereidoun Abtin
  • - Nour El-Islam Radiology Center, Egypt Elsayed Mousa
  • - IRSA La Rochelle, France Jean-Luc BIGOT
  • - Dept. of radiology, Assam medicalcollege, Assam, India Karunakaran M
  • - Homs National Hospital, Homs - Syria Rami Abou Zalaf
  • - IRSA, La Rochelle, France Denis Chabassiere
  • - Jackson Memorial Hospital, Florida, USA N.B.S.Mani
  • - Ultracare, Coimbatore, India Debabrata Das
▶ Semi-Correct Answer : 20/59,  33.9%
  • - Department of radiology, Kangbuk samsung hospital, Korea Kang Pyeong Guk
  • - Kangbuk Samsung hospital, Korea Ji Na Kim
  • - Pulmonologist, Medical College Chest Hospital, Kerala State, India Raveendran T.K
  • - Jiangsu Province Official Hospital, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China Dong Sheng Jin
  • - CHRU Lille hopital calmette, France Toledano Manuel
  • - National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Chin Chung Shu
  • - Dong-A university hospital, Busan, Korea Park Seong Hoon
  • - Pune, India Rahul Deshmukh
  • - Vivus SMRC heart centre, Goa India Rakhee Sanzgiri
  • - Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan Chia-Fu Tsai
  • - UNIFESP-EPM and Fleury Medical Center, Sao Paulo, Brazil Gustavo Meirelles
  • - D.Y. Patil Medical College, Pune, India Anubhav Khandelwal
  • - St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea Jin hee Jang
  • - Shinsegye Rad Clinic, Daegu, Korea Gi Beom Kim
  • - Pravara Medical College, Loni, India Sushant Bhadane
  • - EKH-Berlin, Germany Michael Weber
  • - Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey Mehmet Burtac Eren
  • - Asan Medical Center, Korea Eun Jin Chae
  • - Tenerife, Hospital universitario Nuestra Seora de la Candelaria, Spain Adan Bello Baez
  • - Poitiers, France Jerome Hannequin
  • Top
  • Back

Each Case of This Site Supplied by the Members of KSTR.
Copyright of the Images is in the KSTR and Original Supplier.
Current Editor : Sang Young Oh, M.D., Ph.D Email : sangyoung.oh@gmail.com

This website is optimized for IE 10 and above.