Shadows On Lungs (Not Me!)

Smowball | 13:48 Mon 10th Dec 2012 | Body & Soul

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Breathlesness and wheezing. Chest x ray revealed shadows on lungs. Hospital has requested futher x rays and MRI tomorrow. Apart from the obvious possibility, what else could the shadows be?

p.s. its a male, aged 40, heavysmoker .

Advice Please Sqad

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Sqad

Oooooh! many many things.

Chronic Bronchitis, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Sarcoidosis, Pulmonary TB.Allergic Alveolitis..........and on and on and on......

AlwaysConfused

Found this info from http://ehealthforum.com/health/lung-x-ray-shadows-t137248.html#axzz2EenPk700 Hope it helps

Besides lung cancer, shadows on a chest X-ray image could indicate pneumonia, bronchopneumonia, lung abscess, TBC, other granulomatous inflammations, Echinococcus larva, fibrotic changes, foreign bodies, pleurisy etc. Of course, all these disorders have specific X-ray image marks that can be used for differentiation. In certain cases, an X-ray image is not enough and additional advanced diagnostic procedures are required like CT/MRI-scan or bronchoscopy.

Smowball

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Blimey, they are long lists! So could be anything, imagine the MRI will be quite useful then.