November 2015 imaging case of the month

Abstract

No abstract available. Article truncated after the first page. Clinical History: A 48-year-old non-smoking woman with a history of hysterectomy and right oophorectomy, and cholecystectomy, otherwise previously healthy, presented with right-sided chest pain. A frontal chest radiograph (Figure 1) was performed. Which of the following statements regarding the chest radiograph is most accurate? 1. The frontal chest radiograph shows a right-sided pneumothorax; 2. The frontal chest radiograph shows abnormal mediastinal contours; 3. The frontal chest radiograph shows bilateral pleural thickening; 4. The frontal chest radiograph shows no abnormal findings; 5. The frontal chest radiograph shows small lung volumes with multiple small nodules.

Keywords

• Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome
• Birt-Hogg-Dubé
• chest x-ray
• pneumothorax
• cystic lung disease
• CT scan
• skin papules
• papules
• differential diagnosis
• folliculin