Intrapulmonary lymph nodes masquerading as pleural metastasis.

Intrapulmonary lymph nodes (IPLNs) are a frequent finding of computed tomography for lung cancer and can grow without malignant findings. Linear densities extending from the nodules are a characteristic of IPLNs.

Multiple nodular opacities only involving the right middle pulmonary lobe: Unusual manifestation of tuberculosis.

Bronchoscopy should be actively performed to differentiate pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with lesions in the middle lobe, which are unaccompanied by bronchiectasis or present without obvious lesions in other lobes.