Fig. 27

A 51-year-old woman with myelitis transversa presented on CT with a cystic airspace with mural nodule. Axial CT-image in lung window setting a shows a subpleural cystic airspace with a mural nodule with somewhat thin, bandlike morphology. Follow-up CT 6 months later b shows increase in size of the nodular component and more multicystic aspect of the cystic airspace. The lesion was found suspicious for a lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces. Lobectomy was performed and confirmed the malignant aetiology showing a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma