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[View large image] Clinical presentation:
Incidental finding in an old man, still smokes 10/day. Years ago, previous hospital admission.

There is an area of amorphous calcification in the right mid-zone. It is bounded laterally, but there are additional patches behind the right hilum and at the outer margin of a slightly thickened horizontal fissure. Some pleural thickening is present at the right apex. The right hemidiaphragm is low and flat with increased transradiancy.

[Tuberculosis] [calcification] [COPD]

[Differential]

The appearance is usually definitive, but cases that might have calcification are displayed.

[View large image] Asbestosis (case report) [View large image] Chondroma of rib (case report)
[View large image] Parosteal Sarcoma of rib.(case report) [View large image] Metastasis ossific, (include calcific metastasis, no example)
[View large image] Ossific Nodules in Mitral stenosis (case report) [View large image] Hydatid Cyst (occasionally has visible scolices, a calcified rim is rare)
[View large image] Intrathoracic stomach post operative. (case report) [View large image] Contrast Media in the chest. (case report)
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IDM April 2006