Successful Treatment for a Large Chronic Expanding Hematoma Treated by Pneumonectomy after Arterial Embolization

Figure 2

Image findings of (a–c) chest radiography, (d, e) CT scan, and (f, g) MRI. (a) Chest radiography image indicates a large mass from the shoulder to his left upper chest. The size of the tumor did not obviously increase compared to that of (b) 4 years ago and (c) 13 years ago. (d, e) Chest CT scan reveals a 20 cm large mass on the left chest wall with osteoclasis on the ribs and displacing the left lung. It also shows a low-density area in front of the large mass, which indicates paraffin clots from the plombage collapse therapy for tuberculosis 48 years ago. Chest MRI shows a large mass with a high-intensity area in T1-weighted image and homogeneous high- or iso-intensity area in T2-weighted image (f). A limited contrast effect is indicated in the posterior wall of the mass with gadolinium-enhanced MRI (g).

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