Case 88: Flour Mill Worker Disease

This combination of variable sized lung nodules and eggshell calcification is characteristic.

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Index and Table of Contents
Technical and Practice Issues * Case 11: 62-years old misdiagnosed to have interstitial lung disease - mid-inspiratory and expiratory scans * Snippet 03: Radiation risk and CT chest * Case 23: 60-years old - 40-pack years smoker - right upper lobe nodule - resolved using “mean” reconstructions…
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Case

A 48-years old flour mill worker presented with gradually progressive breathlessness.

Thoughts?

  1. Tuberculosis
  2. Metastases
  3. Silicosis
  4. Vasculitis

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