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Incidental finding of rt hiler mass,pet scan showed suspicious for malignancy. bronchoscope shows no cancer wednesday.tissue samples taken.now what?
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It depends: If the bronchoscopic biopsy showed a specific benign process that could account for the PET finding, you have an answer. If not, you might need to have another biopsy by a different method.
Answered 4/10/2017
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