Interlobar loculated pneumothorax

Case contributed by Domenico Nicoletti , 9 Jan 2024
Diagnosis certain
Changed by Dalia Ibrahim, 10 Apr 2024
Disclosures - updated 8 Sep 2023: Nothing to disclose

Updates to Study Attributes

Findings was changed:

Axial chest CT images show a regularly shaped air loculation, with an obtuse angle between the cystic wall and pleura (length ten cm and anterior-posterior diameter 4 cm). The top and bottom portion of the cystic lesion continues to the right major fissure. Sagittal CT images show the anteroinferior portion of the localised air loculationtapers into the right major fissure. Small apical blebs are also visible on the right adjacent to the aforementioned air loculation. There are initial signs of centrilobular emphysema in the upper lobes. Mediastinum is normal.

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Image 48 CT (lung window) ( create )

Annotation 15825 changed from ,0 arrows,0 labels to blebs ,2 arrows,1 label.

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