Suffering from frosted glass nodules, how should this disease be treated?

Ground-glass nodules can be selected for regular review or surgical treatment, mainly based on the image description of ground-glass nodules during chest CT examination and the doctor's personal experience. If the ground-glass nodule has obvious malignant tumor tendency, surgical treatment should be chosen. Ground-glass nodules mainly exist in the lungs and are often found in chest CT examination. After the discovery, you can do double-lung enhanced CT or high-resolution CT examination to further assist the diagnosis. If burrs are found around the ground glass tubercle and the boundary is unclear, surgical freezing may be needed during the operation. If it is adenocarcinoma or squamous cell carcinoma, radical resection of lung cancer is often needed.

1. How to treat ground glass nodules? The term ground glass nodule often appears in CT reports or chest X-ray reports. Ground glass nodule is a chronic inflammatory disease of lung, which is related to long-term exposure to dust particles and smoking. It is also possible that some ground glass nodules will turn into lung cancer due to the early pathological changes of tumors. Cure requires surgery, but some inflammatory nodules can disappear by taking anti-inflammatory drugs. However, most ground glass nodules are not inflammation, and drugs cannot treat them, so they must be surgically removed.

2. Ground-glass nodules can be cured. Ground-glass nodules can be cured by radical surgery if they have the possibility of canceration or early canceration. Of course, there may be inflammation, tuberculosis, fungal infection or granulomatous lesions in addition to early lung cancer. Through dynamic observation and long-term stability, the strategy of close follow-up can be adopted. If it is inflammation, tuberculosis or fungal infection, anti-infection, anti-tuberculosis or anti-fungal treatment can be carried out, and the ground glass nodules will gradually disappear and be absorbed.

The treatment of ground glass nodules depends on the specific situation. If the ground-glass nodule is a mixed nodule with vacuole sign or bronchial sign inside, or even burr sign outside, and it gradually increases in the process of tracking changes, or the ground-glass nodule is a tumor marker, and the lung tumor gradually increases, then it is necessary to consider active surgical treatment through thoracoscope or other thoracotomy methods. If some ground glass nodules are accompanied by mediastinal lymphadenopathy, lung cancer is highly suspected at this time, pathological or genetic testing can be done in advance, and biological treatment can be carried out after successful matching, with good results. In addition, patients who have not completed matching can be treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy before operation and then after operation.