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Radiology
Pulmonary Neoplasms and Neoplastic-like Conditions
Built from Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology
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7 sections · 146 slides
Overview
- Pulmonary neoplasms at a glance
The Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
How one focal spot in the lung is judged benign, malignant, or indeterminate
- Definition and scope of the SPN
- Localizing the opacity
- Comparing with prior radiographs
- Categorizing a lung nodule
- Clinical factors set the odds
- Growth rate: the doubling time
- Exceptions to the growth rule
- 180 days
- Size
- Margins: smooth, lobulated, spiculated
- Edge characteristics of solitary pulmonary nodules
- Pleural tail and satellite nodules
- Pleural tail from a lung adenocarcinoma
- Vessels, halo, and comet tail
- Arteriovenous malformation with feeding vessels
- Density: the key benign clue
- Five benign calcification patterns
- Patterns of benign nodule calcification
- Fat inside a nodule
- Fat within a pulmonary hamartoma
- Subsolid nodules
- Cystic and bubbly appearances
- Cystic adenocarcinoma
- Bubbly lucencies in an adenocarcinoma
- Contrast-enhanced CT
- CT nodule enhancement study
- PET with FDG
- PET evaluation of a solitary pulmonary nodule
- Management: the guidelines
- Fleischner 2017 guidance: solid lung nodules
- Fleischner guidance: subsolid lung nodules
- Lung-RADS reporting categories (1 of 4)
- Lung-RADS reporting categories (2 of 4)
- Lung-RADS reporting categories (3 of 4)
- Lung-RADS reporting categories (4 of 4)
- Indications for biopsy
- Follow-up of a benign nodule
Lesions Presenting as SPNs
Benign and borderline masses that can look like a lung nodule
- Differential diagnosis of an SPN
- Differential diagnosis of a solitary pulmonary nodule (1 of 2)
- Differential diagnosis of a solitary pulmonary nodule (2 of 2)
- Carcinoid tumor as an SPN
- Pulmonary hamartoma
- Popcorn calcification in hamartoma
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma of the lung
- Lymphoma as a solitary pulmonary mass
- Sclerosing pneumocytoma and inflammatory pseudotumor
- Lipoid pneumonia
- Bronchogenic cyst and infected bulla
- Focal organizing pneumonia
- Focal organizing pneumonia as a subsolid lesion
- Traumatic lung cyst and hematoma
Lung Tumors and Lung Cancer
The WHO classification, the four carcinoma subtypes, and how cancer is staged
- World Health Organization classification
- WHO classification of primary lung tumors
- Lung cancer basics
- Four main carcinoma subtypes
- Subtype shares and features
- Common subtypes of lung carcinoma
- CT appearances of the carcinoma subtypes
- Adenocarcinoma
- Adenocarcinoma: ground glass and lepidic growth
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (1 of 7)
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (2 of 7)
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (3 of 7)
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (4 of 7)
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (5 of 7)
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (6 of 7)
- Premalignant lesions and adenocarcinoma (7 of 7)
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Small cell carcinoma
- Large cell and neuroendocrine tumors
- Epidemiology: who gets lung cancer
- Other risk factors
- Radiographic findings: nodule and hilar mass
- Obstruction: atelectasis and drowned lung
- Hilar mass from squamous cell carcinoma
- Atelectasis clues to obstruction
- Mucoid impaction
- Peripheral nodule signs
- Cavitation and eccentric calcium
- Pancoast (superior sulcus) tumor
- Superior sulcus (Pancoast) tumor
- Mucinous adenocarcinoma and airspace disease
- SVC syndrome and malignant effusion
- Superior vena cava syndrome
- Malignant pleural involvement
- Mechanism of lymphangitic carcinomatosis
- Lymphangitic carcinomatosis from lung cancer
- Lymphangitic carcinomatosis from lung cancer
- Screening with low-dose CT
- Diagnostic evaluation
- Staging: TNM overview
- Resectable versus unresectable
- T: the primary tumor
- TNM classification, eighth edition (1 of 2)
- TNM classification, eighth edition (2 of 2)
- Chest wall invasion
- Mediastinal and airway invasion
- Tracheal involvement by non-small cell carcinoma
- Pleural and pericardial effusion
- N: lymph node spread
- IASLC lymph node zones for staging
- Lymph node metastases in lung cancer
- Node size and accuracy
- M: distant spread
- Staging groups and five-year survival
- Adrenal lesions during staging
- Adrenal metastasis from lung cancer
Nonepithelial Lung Tumors
Lymphoma, leukemia, Kaposi sarcoma, and rare lung tumors
- Lymphoma in the lung
- T-cell lymphoma involving the lungs
- Lymphomatoid granulomatosis
- Follicular bronchiolitis and LIP
- Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder
- Posttransplant lymphoproliferative disorder
- Leukemia in the lung
- Kaposi sarcoma
- Pulmonary blastoma and DIPNECH
- Pulmonary blastoma
Tracheal and Bronchial Masses
Rare airway tumors and how they are recognized
- Tracheal neoplasms overview
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the trachea
- Squamous cell carcinoma of the trachea
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma
- Adenoid cystic carcinoma of the trachea
- Other tracheal malignancies
- Benign tracheal tumors
- Granular cell tumor of the lung
- Nonneoplastic intratracheal masses
- Central bronchial tumors
- Carcinoid tumor
- The neuroendocrine tumor spectrum
- Carcinoid on imaging
- Carcinoid tumor of the left upper lobe bronchus
- Carcinoid staging and prognosis
- Endobronchial hamartoma
Metastatic Disease to the Thorax
How outside cancers reach and appear in the lung
- Routes of spread to the lung
- Route of hematogenous metastasis
- Pulmonary nodules from metastases
- Nodular pulmonary metastases
- Solitary metastasis
- Lymphangitic carcinomatosis from outside
- Pulmonary arterial tumor emboli
- Key takeaways
- Suggested readings
- Suggested readings
- Brant and Helms' Fundamentals of Diagnostic Radiology