I got my CT Scan Results, can anyone help interpret this?
Question: I got my CT Scan Results, can anyone help interpret this?
I finally was able to get a CT scan as a follow up for a liposarcoma that I had in 2000. Here is the radiology report:
CT chest, abdomen and pelvis
Findings: Lungs are clear. Scattered thin walled lucent cysts in the lung bilaterally. No pleural or pericardial fluid or mediastinal abnormality.
The liver is prominent and mildly fatty with caudal edge of the liver extending below the lower pole of the right kidney and transverse dimension of the liver from right to left measuring about 28 cm. Several scattered small hypo densities are noted in the liver which are too small to characterize including one on image #160 in the left lobe and one in the posterior right lobe on image #158 and another at age image#155 and also image #150. These are probably preexisting benign lesions or cysts.
The spleen, pancreas, adrenal glands and kidneys are unremarkable.
There is no intraabdominal mass or evidence of recurrent fatty tumor. Normal appendix. There is a small enhancing nodule in the right fundus of the uterus consistent with a fibroid. No pelvic mass or cyst. No ascites.
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I don’t understand something… How can someone look at a picture and know right away that something is a cyst?
My problem with this is because I was misdiagnosed for 7 years before they finally removed the tumor that ended up being a liposarcoma. I know that liposarcomas like to go to the lungs, so the fact that there are “cysts” there really bugs me…
Any opinion would be appreciated.
Best answer:
Answer by Danielle
Cysts and tumors have different structures, densities on CT scans. Radiologists that read these are trained very well in distinguishing the difference between cysts and tumors. It says lucent cysts in your lungs, so that is a pretty definite sign (lucent) that they are cysts. Tumors are usually solid mass. Get another opinion. I always preach to people to get 2nd and 3rd opinions. Its your health and its your right.
Good luck to you and God bless.
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