What are the positive as well as negative features of a lung mass that should be mentioned when we report a lung mass ?
Site, size , location, borders, cavitation, air-fluid level, calcification and adjacent bony erosion or destruction
What are the review areas that should be evaluated in each radiograph?
Retro-cardiac region, under and behind the diaphragm, hilia and the lung apices, bones and the soft tissues.
The patient presented with acute abdominal pain. An x-ray erect chest frontal radiograph demonstrated a retrocardiac mass which was confirmed to be in the left lower lung lobe on a lateral radiograph.