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I had a ct scan done said mid chest focal interstital scarring. what does this mean?
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Not much to go: on here but there are discrete areas in your lungs of scar formation. Please discus further with the ordering physician or your primary care doc. This may be nothing that will ever bother you, however,I do not know anything more about your case. They do.
Answered 1/22/2018
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