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What Does Possible Apical Plural Thickening In Lung Mean?
Afternoon,
I Had a chest x-ray Jan 20, 2011 due to a minor accident wherein I fractured a right rib and bruised the remainder of ribs. I received a telcall from the attending Doctor about a 1/2 hour ago checking on how my ribs felt. He then told me that they had detected a little spot way down at the bottom of my right lung which looked like there may be some apical-plural thickening. He wants me to have a C.T. Your thoughts?
Thanks for your help,
Lud Habada
608.795.4717
I Had a chest x-ray Jan 20, 2011 due to a minor accident wherein I fractured a right rib and bruised the remainder of ribs. I received a telcall from the attending Doctor about a 1/2 hour ago checking on how my ribs felt. He then told me that they had detected a little spot way down at the bottom of my right lung which looked like there may be some apical-plural thickening. He wants me to have a C.T. Your thoughts?
Thanks for your help,
Lud Habada
608.795.4717
Wed, 4 Oct 2017
Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic.
I can understand your concern.
Chest x ray is just a screening tool for lung and pleural diseases.
So whenever something is found on chest x ray especially mass or nodule, it is better to go for CT scan to have detailed idea about the lesion.
CT scan is 3 dimensional image of lung and pleura.
So this will be give better and perfect idea about suspicious opacity of right lung.
So get done CT thorax.
Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
I can understand your concern.
Chest x ray is just a screening tool for lung and pleural diseases.
So whenever something is found on chest x ray especially mass or nodule, it is better to go for CT scan to have detailed idea about the lesion.
CT scan is 3 dimensional image of lung and pleura.
So this will be give better and perfect idea about suspicious opacity of right lung.
So get done CT thorax.
Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.
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