What are the symptoms of people with pulmonary nodules? How to check yourself at home?

Pulmonary nodules are the clinical hot spots in thoracic surgery in recent years, especially ground-glass lesions, multiple nodules in both lungs, mostly early lung cancer, and their development is slow.

Thin-slice CT scan of chest is the most important follow-up, less than 5mm: pure ground glass 1 year, impure glass for half a year; 5- 10mm: the pure ground glass is rechecked for half a year, the mixed ground glass is rechecked for 3 or 6 months according to the possible malignant size (the same below), and the solid ground glass is rechecked for 1.5 or 3 months;

10-20mm: pure glass is ground for 3 or 6 months, mixed glass is ground immediately or rechecked for 3 months, and solid operation or rechecked for 1.5 months;

More than 20mm: all patients with high malignant potential were operated, and those with low malignant potential were reviewed for 3 months, 1.5 months and 1 month respectively.

Multiple pulmonary nodules in both lungs need the help of doctors to judge and select the main focus, choose to continue to follow up or remove the main focus, and continue to follow up the observation focus left after operation.

Thin-slice CT scan of chest can also determine the location of pulmonary nodules and local peripheral lesions, and wedge cutting or segmental cutting can be used. If the nodule is deep and between lung segments, it is necessary to remove the lung lobe, and the operation needs careful evaluation.

During the follow-up and follow-up, the nodule changes or the doctor is ready to change the treatment plan. It is also necessary to evaluate the general state, including PET and cardiopulmonary function, to prepare for the scheme selection. It is necessary to communicate with the professional doctors of pulmonary nodules and choose the appropriate treatment plan or follow-up plan.

With the extensive use of CT, the "exposure rate" of pulmonary nodules is increasing day by day, and some medicine has also set up pulmonary nodule clinics or studied pulmonary nodules in keeping with the "pace of the times".

Why didn't you often hear and see pulmonary nodules before? It has suddenly become "hot" in recent years. Not necessarily before, but the means of examination at that time were not as high as now. Conventional chest imaging examination is to take a chest X-ray. Because of the overlap before and after, the density resolution is lower than that of CT and other factors, it is difficult to find small nodules, which are often already very large when found.

Because of its own advantages, CT can easily find small nodules, but it also brings many problems and troubles to many people. Some people are too nervous all day, while others are careless.

A lot of nonsense, back to the topic, most pulmonary nodules belong to benign nodules, such as the report submitted by the subjects, you don't have to be too entangled, just follow up regularly.