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A 50-Year-Old Man With a Cough and Painful Chest Wall Mass

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1 A 50-Year-Old Man With a Cough and Painful Chest Wall Mass
Quentin Jones, MBBS, Rachel Benamore, MBBChir, Eve Fryer, BMBCh, Anny Sykes, PhD  CHEST  Volume 145, Issue 5, Pages (May 2014) DOI: /chest Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

2 Figure 1 Chest radiograph showing multifocal bilateral consolidation. There is a diffuse, poorly marginated, increased opacity in the right midzone and enlargement and increased density of the soft tissues, suggestive of a chest wall mass. CHEST  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

3 Figure 2 The CT scan shows multifocal, bilateral, nodular, and mass-like consolidation. CHEST  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

4 Figure 3 CT scan showing the mass-like consolidation in the middle lobe contains areas of low attenuation in keeping with necrosis and is causing rib and costal cartilage erosion; it extends directly into the anterior chest wall, deep to the pectoralis major muscle, where there is a multiseptated low-density collection. CHEST  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions

5 Figure 4 CT scan sagittal view showing rib erosion.
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6 Figure 5 Actinomycosis forming sulfur granules (periodic acid shift diastase, original magnification × 100). CHEST  , DOI: ( /chest ) Copyright © 2014 The American College of Chest Physicians Terms and Conditions


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