Archived case 2 · Jun 4-Jun 11, 2009
Left Upper Lobe Collapse
59 year old female with cough
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Diagnosis
Left Upper Lobe Collapse
German “air” and “cresent” - Luftsichel Sign Para-mediastinal / para-aortic lucency LUL displaced from the mediastinum by overinflated superior segment LLL Not to be confused with pneumothorax or pneumomediastinum Diagnosis: Left Upper Lobe Collapse
Bronchoscopy revealed...
an occluding friable endobronchial lesion extending from LUL into the left mainstem
paralysis of the left vocal cord
Filed under: Radiology, Medicine/Pulmonary
Original case written by its authors at Virginia Commonwealth University and published at this address as part of a weekly teaching collection. Reproduced here as an archive.