 Air crescent sign

In radiology, the air crescent sign is a finding on chest radiograph and computed tomography that is crescenteric and radiolucent, due to a lung cavity that is filled with air and has a round radiopaque mass.Classically, it is due to an aspergilloma, a form of aspergillosis, that occurs when the fungus "Aspergillus" grows in a cavity in the lung.