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What Does White Thing On Bottom Of Right Lung Mean?

my question is I took a chest x ray before a month, the result shows some kind of white things on the bottom of my right lung, the doctor send me to test TB. I don't have any kind of symptom TB like cough, night sweat and any other smymptom. Still I am waiting the result it will take 9 weeks to know the result. would you please advise or tell me the possiblity of being TB positive without any symptom of TB?
Fri, 22 Sep 2017
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Hello ! I can understand your concern. If you are completely asymptomatic and doing healthy then it is quite unlikely that you will have TB. Not all white things on an x ray are Tb. Sometimes even twisted positioning of a normal person while taking x ray will cause white shadows in the x ray , which can be misinterpreted as abnormal if we fail to realise that it's rather the rotation of the patient and nothing abnormal . Likewise if you have not taken a proper deep inspiration while taking x ray too , there can be white shadows in the lower portion of lung. These are just examples to tell you how even a normal person can , due to technical errors while taking x ray , land up with abnormal shadow on x ray . So first thing I would suggest is you review with your physician/ radiologist and discuss again.If in doubt and clinically indicated, you can get a CT chest done to see what the white thing is all about . hope this helps. Do drop in your valuable feedback
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What Does White Thing On Bottom Of Right Lung Mean?

Hello ! I can understand your concern. If you are completely asymptomatic and doing healthy then it is quite unlikely that you will have TB. Not all white things on an x ray are Tb. Sometimes even twisted positioning of a normal person while taking x ray will cause white shadows in the x ray , which can be misinterpreted as abnormal if we fail to realise that it s rather the rotation of the patient and nothing abnormal . Likewise if you have not taken a proper deep inspiration while taking x ray too , there can be white shadows in the lower portion of lung. These are just examples to tell you how even a normal person can , due to technical errors while taking x ray , land up with abnormal shadow on x ray . So first thing I would suggest is you review with your physician/ radiologist and discuss again.If in doubt and clinically indicated, you can get a CT chest done to see what the white thing is all about . hope this helps. Do drop in your valuable feedback