Presentation
Chest pain and cough.
Patient Data
Age: 40 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Pleural lipoma
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8 cm right upper thoracic chest wall mass.
Heart size normal. Lungs clear. Normal mediastinum.
From the case:
Pleural lipoma




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8 cm right fatty pleural based mass. No calcification.
Normal mediastinum. Lungs clear.
Case Discussion
Not all masses on chest radiographs are cancer.
The chest x-ray is a good example of identifying if a mass is pleural or lung based with the obtuse angle between the mass and chest wall indicating a non-lung origin.