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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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Dr. Michael Gabor answered

Specializes in Diagnostic Radiology

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.

Dr Cress agreed

Answered 4/10/2017

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