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From: Tumor and tumorlike conditions of the pleura and juxtapleural region: review of imaging findings

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Diagnosis: schwannoma. Technique: standard chest radiography, contrast-enhanced chest CT and 18FDG-PET CT. Description: A 55-year-old man with no significant medical history was referred for a chest radiograph because of a persistent cough. As an incidental finding, a sharp delineated mass (arrow) laterally in the right hemithorax was found on the postero-anterior chest radiograph (a). Coronal and axial CT images (b, c) in the mediastinal window setting reveal a small homogeneous lesion located intercostally between the 5th and 6th right ribs. The lesion shows high uptake on 18-F-FDG PET (d). Although the high uptake on PET may mislead to a malignant cause, histopathologic examination of the resected specimen confirmed the suggested diagnosis of a schwannoma

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