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What is a lung nodule
A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Ed Friedlander answered
44 years experience Pathology
X-ray spot: It can be anything from an old inactive walled-off TB of fungus infection to a benign tumor to cancer to something as exotic as a dog heartworm that w ... Read More
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Dr. Rada Ivanov answered
31 years experience Pulmonary Critical Care
See below: A spot on the lungs, smaller than 3 cm (otherwise it is called a mass), seen on cxr and/or ct chest, which should not be there. May be due to anything ... Read More
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Dr. Loki Skylizard answered
20 years experience Thoracic Surgery
Abnormaility: A lung "nodule" is a term for small abnormalities seen on xray and ct scans. Most are found to be non-cancer. If larger, 2.5 - 3cm or bigger, will cal ... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
Dr. Brian Mott answered
29 years experience Thoracic Surgery
Solid mass in lung: A lung nodule is a soft tissue mass that is located somewhere within the lung itself. It can be a benign or malignant nodule. Following it with ct sca ... Read More
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Dr. Rada Ivanov answered
31 years experience Pulmonary Critical Care
X-ray term: A small (less than 3 cm) spot on the lungs that looks different from the rest of the lung tissue on x-ray or ct scan. Can be anything from scar tissue ... Read More
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A 43-year-old male asked:
Dr. Michael Gabor answered
33 years experience Diagnostic Radiology
If you: are not at increased risk, and the nodule has benign CT features, then the chance of malignancy is less than 1-2%. This is from the ACR's Lung-RADS c ... Read More
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A 33-year-old member asked:
Dr. Creighton Wright answered
56 years experience General Surgery
Unknowable: There are a lot of possibilities. It is a density in the lung identified on an x-ray or ct
for a small nodule ct scan follow up at 3-4 months early ... Read More
A 32-year-old member asked:
Dr. Tushar Patel answered
26 years experience Radiology
Chest CT scan: To search for a lung nodule, chest ct scan is more accurate than a chest xray. To see if a nodule is cancerous, depending on the size and location in ... Read More
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A 55-year-old female asked:
Dr. Robert Binford answered
38 years experience Thoracic Surgery
Depends: A lung nodule is a lesion in the lung less than 3 cm in diameter. A larger lesion is often called a mass. Typically a lesion needs to be at least 1 cm ... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
Dr. Matthew Hennig answered
19 years experience Thoracic Surgery
See a thoracic spec.: A ct scan would be needed and depending on that result, more tests would possibly be ordered. The size, other abnormalities that may be present, your ... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
Dr. Rada Ivanov answered
31 years experience Pulmonary Critical Care
Growth: If a lung nodule thickens, that means it is growing. Whether this is cancer, infection or anything else, you need to find out.
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A 31-year-old member asked:
Dr. Mary Maluccio answered
27 years experience Surgical Oncology
Would get checked: A lung nodule is not cancer per se, but it is unusual for a noncancerous nodule to grow. In the setting of smoking, this would be worrisome and requir ... Read More
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A 44-year-old member asked:
Dr. Nestor Del rosario answered
34 years experience Addiction Medicine
Lung nodule: Lung nodules are densities in the lungs seen in imaging procedures. The indication depends on how they look like, calcified or not, cavitary or not. T ... Read More
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