Question: I have a question about lung nodules. I had one chest CT in 2012 that picked up two lung nodules by accident. I went to pulmonologist and he said do a follow up so I did one a year later in 2013 and went to have an abdominal one a year after that and the nodules were visualized. You can see the radiologist report attached. Is it safe to say that 23 months of watching that there not need be anymore follow up with these?

I am 38 years of age and never smoked ever before. No family members smoke. What symptoms do you speak of?


Is this proper protocol to watch newly discovered lung nodules?

No none of those symptoms.

So if you discovered someone with my age with a nodule or two one in each lung like me, would you follow up CT scans for 24 months? If no change then what would you tell your patient?

I had something wrong with espohagaues. Something was caught so they did a chest CT. Then they seen the 2 lung nodules incindentally. So I went to pulmonoligst. He said lets do a low dose CT scan of my chest a year later in 2013 and I did. No change. Incidentally I had to get a CT of my abdomen and pelvis because my internal med doc thought I had apendicitis. I went. Instead of having to do another low dose Chest CT they were able to visualize my lung nodules because the nodules were in the lower lobe.


This is what an old report said:
There is 7 mm subpleural calcified nodule in the lateral segment of the right lower lobe (image 48, series 3). There is 8 mm non calcified subpleural nodule in the lateral segment of the left lower lobe


There is slight difference in the measurement but my pulmonolgist said it could have been the CT machine or the person reading it. But the new Abdominal CT showed them and the radiologist read it and its around the same size.
(image 48, series 3)

Nope none of that