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Can someone please help me interepret my chest CT scan in detail?
Lung Health | Last Active: Oct 16 9:25am | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
moderator doesn't want CTs to be uploaded
for privacy.
there should be a possibility to discuss CTs anonymously.
from the papers at google-scholar I get the impression that these CTs
are the most important tool for lung-diagnosis.
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there should be a database of CTs
they should say in which (of the hundreds of) images they see the patterns
and show similar images from other CTs
this should be done in one big international center with
computer assistance
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as I understand
GGO (ground glass opacity) and consolidation (so much GGO that it can't be
distinguished from vessels) means that there is fluid in the alveoli
which is typical for pneumonia, infections . (as on my own CTs).
I haven't seen yet other causes for it, but haven't searched much.
They should go away after some weeks, when the pneumonia is gone.
Well, they wrote "no alveolar infiltrate" so this may mean small droplets
or mucus in the alveoli causing the GGO.
What's the mechanism ? I don;t know. Maybe some immune reaction
to the bacteria or viruses (GGO is also frequent in COVID)
I'm not a doctor and looking at CTs just since some months,
because of my own lung problems and as a programmer who did
computer-image-processing before.
OK, I found one public database of 1500 axial CTs , 150000 pictures from people with
pneumonia at hospital admission :
http://ncov-ai.big.ac.cn/download
I'm working on these ... automatically detecting bulla,pneumothorax,
bronchiectasis,GGO,consolidation ...
I'm not looking at nodules yet , which I think is probably mainly for cancer
you can also just search images or videos in a search-engine with keywords
pneumonia,CT (GGO) and then compare these images with your CT.
I'm just copying the *.jpgs from the "dicom-" CD .
Modern computers no longer support CDs
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@nicoletta27
Ideally, you should have another visit with your doctor who should explain the CT findings.
The patchy ground glass infiltrate could be pneumonia, which they are treating you for I believe.
It could also represent scarring from previous infections. These ground glass findings can change with time, even disappear ( my own experience).
The punctuate nodule obviously is tiny and usually not important. It’s possible that they want to look at that another time in the future.
Like you, I have asthma- sporadic with different seasons or with infections such as flu or pneumonia, a couple of times very severe.
X-rays from these events have shown findings like yours.