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A member asked:
How common are lung nodules? is it common for a nonsmoker to have 3 pulmonary nodules with no current illness symptoms except a cough?
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Where do you live?: In areas where histoplasmosis is a common nuisance illness, almost everybody has a few
Answered 9/30/2017
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Fairly common: If you took 100 people at random off the street and did a CT scan of their chest, 25 of them would have nodules. Non-smokers can have nodules. Most nodules do no cause any symptoms at all and you would never know they are there unless you had a chest CT for some reason (or abdominal CT and it was picked up on the lower lung fields)
Answered 5/13/2019
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