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Are calcium spots and nodule the same thing on lungs? if not what's the difference?
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Calcium in "spots": Is usually old inflammatory change which may have been a nodule at some point. A tissue density without calcium would be called a nodule, and may be a cancer.
Answered 10/4/2016
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