Metachronous lung cancer post-pneumonectomy
Diagnosis almost certain
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Figure 1 (current presentation) - Typical features of right pneumonectomy. Displacement of mediastinal structures to the right. The left upper lobe of the lung has herniated to the right and is obscured by the vertebral column thus the mass lesion is barely visible through the head of the left clavicle.
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Pneumonectomy causes marked distoriondistortion to the medistinum with hyperinflation of the residual lung, often herniating to the contra-lateral hemithorax anteriorly. In In this case, a cancer has developed in that herniated lung and is obscured by the vertebral column on the anterior chest radiograph, thus very difficult to identify.
-<p>Pneumonectomy causes marked distorion to the medistinum with hyperinflation of the residual lung, often herniating to the contra-lateral hemithorax anteriorly. In this case a cancer has developed in that herniated lung and is obscured by the vertebral column on the anterior chest radiograph, thus very difficult to identify.</p>- +<p>Pneumonectomy causes marked distortion to the medistinum with hyperinflation of the residual lung, often herniating to the contra-lateral hemithorax anteriorly. In this case, a cancer has developed in that herniated lung and is obscured by the vertebral column on the anterior chest radiograph, thus very difficult to identify.</p>