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Acutely, infection, neoplasm and trauma can cause pleural or extra-pleural fluid collections which are more likely to be unilateral. Aortic rupture can be associated with a left apical cap due to hematoma 9. Causes and associations include: pleural thickening /scarring.
- Apical chest mass
Apical chest masses are often important and may be missed,...
- Apical chest mass
5 Μαρ 2024 · Apical caps increase in frequency with age and are usually caused by pleural and/or pulmonary fibrosis which displaces extrapleural fat. Chronic ischaemia may cause plaque-like elastotic fibrosis of the visceral pleura/subpleural lung 9 .
30 Αυγ 2022 · Apical chest masses are often important and may be missed, especially when examined with a plain chest radiograph. It is always recommended to perform a targeted assessment of the apices of the lungs during a chest x-ray; they are one of the classic review areas.
Pleural thickening on screening chest X-rays: a single institutional study.
5 Ιουλ 2019 · Pleural thickening is a common finding on routine chest X-rays. It typically involves the apex of the lung, which is called ‘pulmonary apical cap’. On chest X-rays, the apical cap is an irregular density located at the extreme apex and is less than 5 mm in width .
1 Οκτ 2015 · Chest computed tomography findings interpreted as worrisome for adenocarcinoma in situ of the left upper lobe, which was resected and showed pulmonary apical cap. There are asymmetric biapical opacities, wedge shaped in the left upper lobe (yellow arrow), and distinctly triangular in the right upper lobe (red arrow).
21 Ιουλ 2019 · Apical caps. (A) Posteroanterior chest radiograph demonstrates biapical pleural thickening (arrows) that has an undulating margin with the lung. This is symmetric bilaterally and measures less than 5 mm in height.
