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The pulmonary nodule diagnosis and its causes

The pulmonary nodule diagnosis and its causes

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Created by: Top Doctors editorial Sources: Top Doctors CO
Edited by: TOP DOCTORS® at 27/05/2022

¿What is a lung nodule

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A lung nodule is a shadow or a rounded or elliptical opacity in 2 dimensions would see as the circumferential, in 3 dimensions we could imagine the elliptic. And normally or detect a practice of a chest x-ray or by the practice of a scanner. Today day with scanners detect lung nodules of very small dimensions, from 3 millimeters and 20 millimeters for example, that we could not previously detected by chest x-ray. The detection of a pulmonary nodule always generates concern in the person to be detected by the fact that at some point is interpreted as synonymous with benign disease not. Not so, thankfully most of the time it is detected by chance and not by symptoms the cause is benign or harmless or innocent, but it is also true that in certain contexts never have to go unnoticed by the physician or the patient 's detection of a pulmonary nodule.

¿are the causes of lung nodule

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The list of causes of a pulmonary nodule is very long, we could say that there are more than 100 causes of pulmonary nodule, but in the end we are interested in the medical and especially the patient is whether it is benign or not benign lesion. The causes of benign lesion, usually they are either not reach the diagnosis or are unimportant or are infectious, and can be current infections or may be old infections. And if they are tumor in lung although there are benign tumors, for example amartomas calcinoides or tumors, etc., provided, nevertheless, if we think that tumors are benign tumors.

¿, As you can diagnose pulmonary nodule

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Typically the same radiological characteristics of the nodule can guide us, if they could be a fat amartoma if they have calcification may be an old injury, but often can not make a diagnosis on the first visit and then the criteria will know if we to pass more complicated, more invasive tests, or simply we can expect. If the dimensions are small it is possible that the only thing to do is wait, 3, 6, 12 months and tell us whether the growth is benign or not benign lesion. If the lesion and the top is for example more than 10 millimeters or about 10 millimeters, and probably need to do more immediate evidence that may well be Tac -Pet or brocoscopia direct puncture or even if our suspicion is very high in that it can not be a benign lesion then it is possible that we will indicate surgical intervention and analysis of the surgical piece by pathological anatomy is what will give us the diagnosis.

¿That there are risk factors for lung nodules are a treat cancer

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Risk factors are well defined, is the chief of all snuff and snuff is accumulated, ie, the number of packets and the number of accumulated years of snuff. If present emphysema, which also detect it by Tac, this is also a risk factor. And if this is also bronchial obstruction risk factor. Would have to say that a person of 55-60 years who is a smoker until then, you have emphysema and have obstruction, the probability that during the next 10 years developing a cancer is 10 %, ie, they followed patients one of every 10 to 10 years there will be developed a cancer.

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