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Lung cancer
Consolidation with pseudocavitation
  1. Tanzil Rahaman,
  2. Kavitha Venkatnarayan,
  3. Chitra Veluthat,
  4. Priya Ramachandran
  1. Pulmonary Medicine, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
  1. Correspondence to Dr Kavitha Venkatnarayan, Pulmonary Medicine, St John's National Academy of Health Sciences, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; kaviaiims{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/thorax-2024-222040

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    A 48-year-old man, non-smoker, with no known comorbidities, presented with shortness of breath, cough with mucoid expectoration, loss of appetite and loss of weight for 6 weeks. There was no history of fever, hemoptysis or wheezing. He had received multiple courses of antibiotics from elsewhere before presenting to our centre with no relief of symptoms. On examination, crepitations were audible in the right infrascapular region. Examination of other organ systems and lab investigations were unremarkable.

    Chest radiograph showed a right lower zone consolidation. CT of the thorax showed right lower lobe consolidation with ground glass opacities with evidence of pseudocavitation. There were multiple nodules with pseudocavity in the other lobes and opposite lung as well (figure 1). With a clinical and radiological suspicion of …

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    • Contributors TR and KV have drafted the manuscript and act as guarantors for the work. CV and PR have edited and approved the final version. All were involved in managing the patient.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

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