CAVITY – a useful mnemonic for the causes of a cavitating lung mass.
C = cancer
- bronchogenic carcinoma : most frequently SCC (left image)
- cavitatory metastasis : again most frequently SCC
A = autoimmune granulomas from
- Wegener’s granulomatosis (right image)
- rheumatoid arthritis (rheumatoid nodules)
V = vascular
I = infection
- pulmonary abscess (TB, fungal, staph aureus)
T = trauma
Y = youth
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