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6mm nodule in pleura

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I got my hands on my CT scans.

Now I'm not a radiologist, but... To me it looks like the nodule has been the same size since 2022. Largest size of it varies between 0-6mm depending on whether or not the CT slice hits it. The usual slice thickness I have been taken with has been 3mm but I had more precise imaging in 2022 because they were astonished of the finding in my nut. In 2022 the slice thickness was 0,6mm.

When I reconstructed it from first imaging simply by drawing it segment by segment it looks almost like a scar to me. I've never had CT taken before so for all I know it could've been there for as long as I've lived. I don't remember being stabbed though..

The length of it vertically is 7-8 segments, that is 4,2 to 4,8mm. Its like 4,3 mm wide at base, triangular in shape. Going from top to bottom the first image is less than 1mm in depth and maybe 2mm wide, second one it jumps to 4,3mm in depth and 4,2mm width, continues at 3,8mm depth and 4mm width, tapers off to D:3,5mm W:4mm, D:2,6mm W:3,7mm, D:1,66mm W:3mm, D:0,5mm W:1mm and then its gone. These layers are 0,6mm apart from the next one.

It's between my collarbone and my right nipple, just above and next to my third rib from top.

Of course later images its hit or miss can you even measure it. 3mm slice can miss it almost completely. It's pretty weird that it took them this long to start paying attention to it. Why did they even take so accurate CT if they don't even look at it. Makes me think that either my radiologists are not really paying attention or they are looking at something completely different that my savage cave-man eyes cannot recognize.

Seeing it somehow makes me feel more at ease. Sure. It's something in my chest but at least to my eye it seems to have stayed pretty much the same size. At most it has grown maybe 1-2mm over two years, no way 4mm. Radiologists must be smoking something. Maybe they are looking at something completely different. Thanks to the 3mm slice they have chosen to go with, it's impossible to say anything about it in my opinion. In some scans you can barely even see it because it falls just in between the slices. Like for example you can see it pretty clearly and obviously in 10/7/2022, then you cant even find it in 10/20/2022.

Sheesh.. I guess the CT slices cost money or something.

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You bring up some good points. I’ve had the size of some nodules vary up and down in CT scans and that may be the CT view or a different radiologist. I’ve had that with ongoing lung nodules and a 20 year old kidney stone. I was told last year I had a pancreatic cyst show up on the CT (uh oh) so I had a special type of pancreatic MRI and oops, it was just fat. When I had my first abdominal CT 25 years ago, a liver cyst was an incidental finding. Sounded scary. I was told they are common and often congenital (there at birth). It has never been an issue. Year after year radiologists disagree on what the last one saw. My mother was told she had an aortic aneurysm for years and she thought she was going to drop dead any moment. 5 years later, oops it wasn’t an aneurysm. On and on I could go. I hope yours turns out to be congenital or an oops it’s nothing. The medical field is definitely not an exact science. Lots of educated guessing is involved.