Fig. 21
From: Evaluation of the solitary pulmonary nodule: size matters, but do not ignore the power of morphology
Chest CT in 62-year-old man with pancytopenia was performed to rule out infection. As an incidental finding a large lobulated subpleural nodule was noted. The axial CT-image in mediastinal window setting shows a triangular fat component, extending from the pleura into the lesion and corresponding to pleural retraction. Histopathology confirmed a malignant aetiology, with a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma