Fig. 18.

Chest radiograph in a 59-year-old woman with a previous history of heart transplantation showed a nodule in the right upper lobe. This was confirmed on chest CT scan with axial images in lung window setting showing a 2.4 cm nodule with central cavitation. Since efforts to prove an infectious cause remained unsuccessful and the lesion persisted, wedge excision was performed. Histopathologic examination could not reveal any malignancy, but showed findings consistent with an aspergilloma