Clinical Case - Cavitating pneumonia - Chest Xray and CT Scan - Radiology tutorial
A chest xray was performed revealed an opacity in the right lower zone.
In today's case we learn how to localise an abnormality on chest xray and correlate it with a CT scan.
We also discuss differential diagnosis for a thick walled pulmonary cavity:
1. Cavitating pneumonia also known as pulmonary or lung abscess
2. Lung cancer
3. Metastasis
4. Non infective causes such as granulomatosis with polyangiitis
This video is for education purposes only