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Chest scans may help monitor spr... by Dr. Rubens D. Medical Doctor Chest scans may help monitor spread of head and neck cancer in high-risk patients 22 oct 2008... Hospital, Taiwan, and colleagues evaluated 270 screening chest CT scans performed over 42 months in 192...
"Heart scans" are not always heart scans by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor Beware of the media reports now being issued that warn that "CT heart scans" pose a risk for cancer. One report can be viewed at http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20070717/ct-heart-scan...
The Scan That Didn’t Scan By GIN... by Dr. Rubens D. Medical Doctor The Scan That Didn’t Scan By GINA KOLATA 19 oct 2008--This is a story about M.R.I. ’s, those amazing scans that can show tissue injury and bone damage, inflammation and fluid accumulation...
Heart scan curiosities 3 by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor Note the shape of the chest in this 64-year old man. The front of his chest (upper portion of scan) is concave. In other words, if you were looking at this man (shirtless, of course) face to face...
Heart scan curiosities 2 by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor through the diaphragmatic hiatus into the chest--the stomach is literally in the chest. This example is an unusually large one. Hiatal hernias can cause chest pain, indigestion, and a variety of other gastrointestinal...
CT scans increasing cancer risk by Katherine B. Patient Expert -rays,” the authors of one report write. For example, a chest CT scan exposes the patient to more than 100 times... of the abdomen and pelvis; 4,100 from chest scans; 4,000 from head scans; and 2,700 from CT angiography. One...
Scan Results: The Cancer is Gone from the Lymph Nodes by Tanya T. Patient Expert I received my scan results early this morning. It appears the cancer is gone from my lymph nodes.... From the report: "Findings are suggestive of response to therapy. Additionally, there were small mesorectal lymph...
CT Scan The night before the sca... by Jo C. Burzycki Patient ExpertHealth Maven CT Scan The night before the scan, I had to drink one of the barium shakes and about half... I had the same response but had to go to get the CT scan so just made due. When I got there I told...
Get a heart scan--but then don't delay taking action! by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor after his scan--and told me about the chest pressure he was getting. Initially, his chest pains occurred... on a patient I met earlier this week. Jack had gotten a heart scan a year ago with a score of 246, placing...
Helical CT scans reduce lung c ... by Dr. Rubens D. Medical Doctor Helical CT scans reduce lung cancer mortality by 20% compared to chest X-rays In a major new... scanning reduced lung cancer deaths by 20 percent compared to using chest X-rays. 05 nov 2010--"The...

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Introduction ... s a strong magnetic field and radio waves to produce detailed pictures of the inside of your body. ... » Read on
How it is performed ... efore the scan. If you are having a special study of the bile ducts called an MRCP (magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography) ... » Read on
How it is performed ... is a machine that uses high frequency sound waves to create a picture of the inside of your body. Before havin ... » Read on
What it is used for Unlike other imaging methods, CT scanning offers detailed views of different tissue types incl ... » Read on
How it works ... obtained while holding your breath, which allows a scan of the chest to be done in a few seconds. » Read on

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I had chemo after my mastectomy and will finish radiation in two days. what is next?
I had a ct scan of my chest and it was normal. Next week I will be through with radiation. I will see my oncologist August 5th. What would be next? More test? LIndacrap

CT Scan results, asthma and reticular/nodular densities
I had a CT scan of my chest, my first ever. The person who interpreted the results said that there was a small area of irregular reticular and possibly nodular density in the right lower lobe. Is it normal for long term asthma sufferers to have this type of problem? Anniecrap

CT Scan of thorax
What do you mean by Ground Glass opacity Benjamin Young, M.D., Ph.D. CT Scan of thorax Hi and thanks for posting."Ground glass opacity" refers to a type of abnormality found on CT scans of the lungs. This finding is usually indicative of certain types of infections, such as viral pneumonia. Pneumocystis...crap

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i just was hiv-positive diagnosed.no mayor complications(scans of chest,abdomen,pelvis)were negative.no tuberculosis.So it's just my blood and the Karposi sarcoma in my skin.My insurance refuses to pay foe the prescriptions,so i pay myself,my own pocket.I'm on BACTRIM,KALETRA and COMBIVIR daily...crap

what's complete right bundle branch block" and how did i get it?
a year ago i had an ECG scan -- 'cause i've been having a series of chest pain for as long as i could remember -- and the result said that i have "complete right bundle branch block". and i haven't checked.... so i talked to my grandma about it and she took me to a clinic to take an ECG scan and the result was...crap

I went to the ER and they said i WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK THE NEXT DAY THEY SAID i DID NOT
 THE PAIN WAS EXCRUSIATING IN THE MIIDDLE OF MY CHEST RADIATING TO MY RIGHT JAWLINE THE DIAGNOSIS WAS PERICARDITIS/ALTHOUGH THE cT SCAN SHOWED SHARDS OF BLOOD CLOTS wHAT WAS IT? KARENcrap

I had a masectomy 4 years ago. Over the lst year my 2 lower ribs on that side have started to
protrude!!! THey stick out about 2 inches from the other ribs.  I have had a CT scan and a bone scan of the chest.  They do not see cancer or any other reason for this displacement!  Help!!! Sally Biancullicrap

please explain pleural mass /left posterior chest with widing of the neuralforamen at t6 level
Had a cat scan for chronic pain in chest. please expain  neurofibroma in the sub pleural space and widening hte neural foramen of the vertebral body Pamcrap

CT scan or MRI-- which is better to evaluate lymphoma?
.As just one example, I have a patient in which his CT scan showed abnormal lymph nodes in the chest, abdomen, and arm pits. The gallium scan only lit up in the chest and abdomen. This let me know that lymph nodes... Dear Dr. Dezube, I would like to know which one of the 2 procedures (CT scan or MRI...crap

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Last year, to rule out the possibility of TB, I underwent a CT scan of chest and abdomen. (ESR was 85, x-ray was ambiguous, there could have been some pleural thickening.) Cleared of the TB, but the scan reported that I was mildly hepatomegalic, i.e., liver slightly enlarged. All my liver function...crap