Presentation
Thoracic pain.
Patient Data
Age: 80 years
Gender: Male
From the case:
Silicosis (classic complicated)
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Bilateral irregular masses with soft tissue density and coarse calcifications, located, respectively, at posterior and apicoposterior segment of right and left upper lobe, associated with satellite small nodules and ground-glass opacities. Others small nodules are found in both lungs periphery.
Multiple billateral calcified mediastinal lymphadenopathy, with eggshell pattern.
Case Discussion
Irregular or ill-defined soft-tissue mass with coarse calcifications, predominating at the posteriors regions of the lung, associated with eggshell pattern calcification of lymph nodes are very sugestive of classic complicated silicosis.