We ask: What is the diagnosis?

RADIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS

We ask: What is the diagnosis?

• A 70-year-old female patient with a history of chronic cough and expectoration of whitish sputum for 9 months. Patient reports a 4-kg weight loss over the same period.

Ciro Yoshida Junior

UNIFESP-EPM, São Paulo, SP

Dany Jasinowodolinski

Centro de Medicina Diagnóstica Fleury,

São Paulo, SP

Gustavo de Souza Portes Meirelles

UNIFESP-EPM, São Paulo, SP and Centro de Medicina Diagnóstica Fleury, São Paulo, SP

Nestor Müller

St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada

This section is intended to encourage a diagnostic approach based on clinical and radiographic findings. We invite all of our readers to participate. Submit your diagnosis by completing the form you will find on our website: www.jornaldepneumologia.com.br; or by e-mail to: [e-mail]. Remember to include the full name of your institution. In the next issue of the journal, we will publish the diagnosis for this case, along with the names of those who submitted correct responses. The images shown above are those that were most relevant in making the final diagnosis.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  28 Sept 2004
• Date of issue
  Aug 2004