Lung cancer on x-ray
Lung cancer is by no means a rare disease. Against the background of an aggressive environment, smoking, and previous respiratory diseases, cancer is widespread. At the initial stages, this pathology is quite difficult to identify.
A snapshot of the lungs with cancer can help oncologists determine the presence of a tumor.
Content:
- How lung cancer is diagnosed today
- What results does X-ray show?
- Is lung cancer visible on fluorography
- Bronchogenic carcinoma
Symptoms Indicating Disease
Cancer is an insidious disease that can disguise itself as other diseases. But if suspicions of pulmonary cancer are confirmed by such signs as:
- Hoarse or wheezing;
- Lack of appetite;
- Attacks of prolonged cough;
- Shortness of breath;
- Increased body temperature;
- Lethargy, apathy, then you need to seriously engage in clarifying the clinical picture of lung neoplasms.
How lung cancer is diagnosed today
Modern diagnostics of lung oncology has in its arsenal four categories of examination for neoplasms:
- First. Methods confirming the possibility of the tumor development process. This is a medical examination, fluorography, X-ray for lung cancer.
- Second. The diagnosis is clarified on computed tomograms. Bronchoscopic and radionuclide examinations are also carried out.
- Third. This includes methods of the morphological plan. In this case, the diagnosis of a lung tumor is decisively determined. Histology and cytology of tumor specimens is done using endoscopy or biopsy.
- The last, fourth category of diagnostics makes it possible to identify the degree of prevalence of the oncological process. This requires ultrasound, CT and radionuclide research.
What results does X-ray show?
The information content of such a study allows you to determine lung cancer on an x-ray. It happens that only a few cases of a similar clinical picture show a satisfactory lung condition.
An x-ray will help detect the central form of cancer by darkened areas of the lungs and an expanded network of pulmonary vessels.
On a frontal X-ray, the tumor looks like a clear, even shadow from the edge of the lungs to the right / left side. Ribbon-shaped processes extend from this shadow.
A photo of how lung cancer looks on an X-ray study is not surprising for oncologists, but the patient is not very happy.
Is lung cancer visible on fluorography
Fluorography is the same study as X-ray, it consists in photographing the respiratory organs on a fluorescent screen. X-rays pass through the body, and as a result of the uneven absorption of X-rays by different tissues of the body, an image is obtained that can be deciphered by specialists.
Fluorography gives a small size of the examined organ, but for oncologists this is enough to make a diagnosis by an X-ray photo.
Bronchogenic carcinoma
Under this name, lung cancer is best known among physicians. Why bronchogenic? Yes, because this pathology arises from the mucous membrane of the bronchi. The walls of the bronchi are the most vulnerable part of the internal organs, because only they have direct contact with the environment and the toxic substances in it.
As a result, the tumor grows intensively with the help of inhaled carcinogens. And it is growing by leaps and bounds.
Therefore, the question: "Does the fluorogram show lung cancer" can be answered in the affirmative - it does. Such a diagnostic method is convincing, it can show the disease, and also determine at what stage it is.
The author of the article: Bykov Evgeny Pavlovich | Oncologist, surgeon
Education: graduated from residency at the Russian Scientific Oncological Center. N. N. Blokhin "and received a diploma in the specialty" Oncologist"
