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Air crescent sign

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Sagittal reformat from a CT scan of the chest showing air crescent sign in a patient with invasive fungal infection. There is a rounded cavity in the apical right upper lobe, with a non-dependant soft-tissue nodule within it. Also there is some subtle ground-glass opacity surrounding the
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The arrows denote an ill-defined nodular opacity in medial aspect of right upper lobe with ill-defined rim of lucency surrounding it
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Curtis AM, Smith GJ, Ravin CE (October 1979). "Air crescent sign of invasive aspergillosis".
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grows in a cavity in the lung. It is also referred as Monad sign.
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Index

crescent sign

Differential diagnosis
radiology
chest radiograph
computed tomography
crescenteric
radiolucent
lung
air
radiopaque
aspergilloma
aspergillosis
Aspergillus

"The air crescent sign"
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10.1148/radiology.218.1.r01ja19230
PMID
11152807
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10.1148/133.1.17
PMID
472287
"Pulmonary aspergillosis"
Air crescent sign on CXR
Air crescent sign on CT
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