Pulmonary Infarction Simulating Pulmonary Neoplasm

Abstract

SUMMARY A group of cases is described in which pulmonary infarcts appear as pulmonary or pleural tumours in the chest X‐ray. In two cases infarcts are shown to undergo aseptic cavitation, and in one it seems that a pneumothorax was related. It is suggested that the first step towards avoiding confusion on clinical and radiological grounds between pulmonary infarction and bronchogenic carcinoma is an awareness that such confusion is possible.