A CT scan of healthy lungs looks typical in size with no inflammation, allowing the diaphragm to dome. Lungs with emphysema can look overinflated, with muscle loss, making the diaphragm misshapen. The ...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes symptoms such as anosmia, coughing, headaches to more deadly results such as organ failure and lung damage. Recently, 'long-COVID' has come to the media's ...
editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine. • Nov. 4: National Lung Screening Trial announcement The report describes the tests and its preliminary findings, including that 20 percent fewer ...
It’s official: CT scans reduce the risk of death for heavy smokers with lung cancer by 20 percent compared to chest X-rays. After a nearly decade-long study, results from the National Lung Screening ...
Dr George Owiti, a radiographer at Kericho County Hospital examines the Chest CT results of a patient admitted to the hospital. [James Wanzala, Standard] Despite recent breakthroughs that have ...
Annual low-dose computed-tomography (CT) screening can eliminate the need for biopsy or surgery in nonsolid lung nodules, according to a new study. Annual low-dose computed-tomography (CT) screening ...
Injuries to the lungs from vaping have suggestive patterns on CT scans that could help physicians make accurate diagnoses and reduce unnecessary biopsies, according to a new study published in the ...
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