| Summary: | No abstract available. Article truncated after 150 words. A 38-year-old man with a history of a motor vehicle collision about 20 years prior to presentation which resulted in multiple left-sided rib fractures, a left-sided pneumothorax requiring chest tube placement, and a high-grade splenic laceration necessitating an emergent splenectomy that presents to outpatient pulmonary clinic for evaluation of pulmonary nodules at the request of his primary care physician. He is asymptomatic. He has a 20-pack-year of smoking history and currently smokes 6 cigarettes per day. He denies any significant exposures or recent infections. He has a family history significant for heart disease and depression, but no history of malignancy. His vital signs and physical examination are normal. He had a CT of the chest performed with representative images from the study shown in Figure 1.
A nuclear medicine scan was subsequently requested which demonstrated uptake of the technetium 99m-labeled sulfur colloid in the soft tissue nodules adjacent to left …
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