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Adrian Hayes

A Chest X Ray Suggested a Lung Tumor, and Surgeons Found Bone Growing Off the Second Rib

A Routine Health Check That Ended in Thoracic Surgery

A 41-year-old man in Japan went in for a routine health checkup and left with a chest X-ray showing a rounded mass roughly 4 centimeters across in the upper part of his left lung field. On a plain film, it looked like a pulmonary tumor.

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