Question

A 59-year-old man presents with chronic cough and is found to have a right upper lobe lung mass on chest X-ray. He is a heavy smoker with weight loss. What is the most appropriate initial imaging to stage the disease after CT thorax?

Accepted Answer

Whole-body PET-CT scan according to lung cancer pathway

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MRI brain only

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No further imaging is needed

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Ultrasound of abdomen only

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Plain skeletal survey

Practice question

A 59-year-old man presents with chronic cough and is found to have a right upper lobe lung mass on chest X-ray. He is a heavy smoker with weight loss. What is the most appropriate initial imaging to stage the disease after CT thorax?