South African Journal of Radiology (Dec 2011)

The radiological appearance of metastatic cystic lesions

  • Pieter Barnardt,
  • Jacqueline Du Toit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4102/sajr.v15i4.358
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 4

Abstract

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Cystic and cavitatory pulmonary lesions are abnormalities encountered on chest computed tomography (CT). Malignant lesions, including metastases, rarely present as cystic lesions; we report on two such cases: a man with advanced carcinoma of the left testis, and a woman with epithelioid trophoblastic tumour.

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