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Chest CT Images

mvaughn1018
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I had another chest ct scan with and without contrast. I have the images and looked at them. Of course, my education is in accounting and not medicine; (I have no idea what I'm looking at). I was looking for images on the internet to identify the different parts. As I'm curious if there's an improvement or a regression between my scans of March '09, June '09 and Nov '09. Does anyone have a good reference? I expect to hear from my pulmonologist office sometime next week. As I had ended up in the ER on Tuesday; I'm having problems waiting.

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Sarcoidosis

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JaynesInPain

Reading those tests does require expertise. I looked at my own & was able to make "some" sense of it. I used google images to see "chest CT of sarcoidosis" which brought me some images to get an idea from. I am like you..I hate waiting & really like to have some idea/control over what's happening. But even still we are VERY limited w/how much we can gain from doing it on our own. Try to click on "report" part of your CTScan disk (if you were given a CD). That will at least tell you what the radiologist thinks. Hope you get some answers soon.-Jayne

IreneMarie

Thanks Jayne, that is a great idea since I travel between FL and CT with discs to share with two teams of docs. Even though I have worked in the field imaging is a whole other specialty and lingo so docs tend to keep it brief when they 'bring you up to speed'. It never occurred to me to pop on into my pc:)

mvaughn1018

Thanks for the feedback. A
Apparently they didn't give me the report only images. I can compare, see differences but no idea of the parts or if something should be white or black.

gonenatural

I always ask for reports with images. 99% of the time they place them on the cd for me and I print out as needed. Strange how you have to be so specific when you ask for something sometimes. Many hospitals do it automatically. Some do it seperate so you can pay for the info and the cd is free, 58 cents per sheet, some sheets only have 1 letter, such as an A, and charge you.

mvaughn1018

I'll have to try to remember to ask for the report. I thought the images would include it....but I guess that's what I get for thinking. Thanks for the suggestion.

silvercivic

I wouldn't put my hand on a bible saying this but I thought I heard my girlfriend say that lymph nodes show up as white. And,I think she found a site that shows that.
Dave

mvaughn1018

I was able to identify the lymph nodes in my neck and under my arms. I couldn't see the ones in the chest. The ones under the arms look like white triangles; the neck white balls.

mananimal

Healthy lung should be black, as an empty air space .
And scar tissue,lymph nodes ,granulomas,and dye all show up white

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Sarcoidosis and the Body
Sarcoidosis is a "multiorgan" disease - meaning it almost always involves more than one organ. It's unpredictable and affects different people in different ways.

You can learn about the ways in which sarcoidosis affects the body in FSR's Sarcoidosis and the Body brochure.

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