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67 y/o woman (smoker) with LUL nodule

Presentation

A 67-year-old black woman with a long smoking history presented with an incidental finding of a 2.5 cm nodule in the left upper lobe (LUL) on a previous chest radiograph. The metastatic work-up had been negative. She had undergone lingulectomy, sparing the left upper lobe, through video-thoracoscopy after negative mediastinoscopy.

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Plain chest radiograph
Close-up of nodule on plain chest radiograph
CT of lung

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