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Can someone please help me interepret my chest CT scan in detail?
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Hi Ingegerd, You mentioned that you had ground glass findings that disappeared? Can you tell me more about that please? I have four GG nodules detected on a recent CT scan. Big surprise for me and I am very worried about them. Range in size from 4-5 mm to 6-7mm. Round, ground glass density, Indistinct margins. The LUNG/Rads category assigned to them is 2. They recommend repeat scan in 12 months. That seems like an awfully long time to me. How many did you have and what size if I may ask and also if they disappeared what was the time frame in which that happened. Thanks so much for your insight. I hope you are doing well.
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I have GGNs that were present at the diagnosis of my mucinous adenocarcinoma in 2010. They remain unchanged in almost 14 years.
They can be caused by exposure to chemical fumes, allergens, exposure to a fungus called histoplasmosis, asthma, chest infections like cold or flu, air pollution and more. 95% of them never become a problem. Many disappear on their own, others never change. They are semisolid so it is not possible to get a piece of them during a biopsy.
They watch them though because about 5% will start to become solid which means they are becoming cancerous. I had new ones appear and take 7 years before they started turning solid and 4 more years before one was large enough to biopsy.