Lung nodule shadow problem

I am a senior radiologist in a tertiary hospital. Let me explain something to you.

According to the description of chest CT, fibrous lesions and proliferative nodules of secondary pulmonary tuberculosis are considered. "The cord shadow of the upper and lower lobes of the right lung" is a fibrous lesion. As for the small nodules in the middle lobe, proliferative nodules are considered according to the principle of the same disease explanation. It is difficult to diagnose pulmonary nodules, especially solitary small nodules. The usual practice is to consider the proliferative nodules and fibrous lesions of tuberculosis. There is no better diagnosis for your mother's illness at present. It is necessary to review chest CT. If there are no symptoms, chest CT can be reexamined in the same hospital after 3 months. If you have symptoms such as cough, hemoptysis and chest pain, you need to see a doctor in time. The test results you provided are not helpful for the diagnosis of lung diseases. In addition, the radiation dose of chest CT is indeed much larger than that of conventional chest radiograph, but it is still safe, so there is no need to consider the radiation problem. In fact, ordinary people exaggerate the harm of radiation.

Why do you want to do chest CT and chest X-ray? Chest X-ray has been eliminated in many places, and it has no effect on your mother's condition. Blood test results have nothing to do with lung lesions.

Without anti-tuberculosis treatment, tuberculosis can't heal itself at all. In fact, most calcifications in the lung and hilum are the result of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. This is nothing to be surprised about.