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06 / Thoracic Surgery · clerkship

A shadow on the chest film

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Clinic, week one

Forty pack-years, stopped nine years ago. He walks two flights without stopping. The nodule is spiculated with an irregular margin, and there was no such shadow on a film taken four years ago.

Chest radiograph with a peripheral lung mass
James Heilman, MD · CC BY-SA 4.0

Which single feature raises the probability of malignancy most?

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