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Good eve. i have an xray results that having a suspicious infiltrates are seen in the right upper lobe.what does it mean doc? thank you

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Possible illness: an accumulation of fluid or mucous that is evident on x-ray. Why was this x-ray ordered?- bronchitis, pneumonia or shortness of breath???

Answered 6/10/2017

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Dr. Michael Gabor answered

Specializes in Diagnostic Radiology

Infiltrates:: Difficult to narrow down without the images and clinical information. It could be a variety of things: pneumonia, inflammatory, neoplastic.

Dr Fowler agreed

Answered 6/10/2017

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