Fig. 19
From: Evaluation of the solitary pulmonary nodule: size matters, but do not ignore the power of morphology
Chest CT in a 57-year-old man who presented with chronic cough. Axial CT-image in lung window setting shows a 12Â mm well-defined round nodule in the left lower lobe. The nodule shows a central area of cavitation. Since there were clinically no arguments for an infectious cause, video-assisted thoracoscopic lobectomy was performed. Histopathologic examination showed a small squamous cell carcinoma