Exam questionKROK 2Medicine ยท 2020
A 57-year-old man, a miner, complains of a pain in his chest, dyspnea on physical exertion, excessive sweating, constant subfebrile tempeature, and cough that produces blood-streaked sputum. He has been smoking for approximately 40 years (2 packs a day) and frequently has "pneumonia': Survey chest X-ray shows a triangular shadow in the middle lobe of the right lung. One of the apices of the shadow points to the lung root. Cardiac and mediastinal shadows are displaced toward the affected area. Make the provisional diagnosis:
Answer options
- Chronic bronchitis
- Right-sided pleuropneumonia
- Tuberculosis of the right lung
- Pneumoconiosis
- Cancer of the right lung
Correct answer
Cancer of the right lung
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