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Subpleural cystic change in a patient with multiple rib exostoses
  1. Maria Tsakok1,
  2. Dinesh Addala2,
  3. Clare Bradley2,
  4. Alistair Moore2,
  5. Fergus Gleeson1
  1. 1 Department of Radiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
  2. 2 Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Maria Tsakok, Department of Radiology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford OX3 7LE, UK; maria.tsakok{at}ouh.nhs.uk

https://doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2017-210674

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    A 75-year-old man, with hereditary multiple exostoses, had a positron emission tomography (PET)-CT scan for follow-up of an excised chondrosarcoma. Incidentally, he was found to have widespread subpleural cystic change (figure 1A and B) and a cystic right lower lobe lesion (figure 2) adjacent to a rib exostosis. He was referred to the urgent respiratory clinic on the basis of these unusual subpleural cystic findings and concern that the cystic right …

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    • Contributors Manuscript prepared and written by MT and DA. Manuscript preparation overseen and edited by CB, AM and FG.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

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