Will inflammatory nodules in the lungs disappear?

When you go to the hospital for a check-up due to some illness, the doctor will ask the patient to do a CT scan based on the condition. Many patients will find inflammatory nodules in their lungs after the CT scan. However, after a period of time, when they do the same examination, the lung nodules are gone. Such a result will make many patients feel incredible. Will the lung nodules disappear on their own?

Will pulmonary inflammatory nodules disappear on their own?

Generally speaking, lung nodules will not disappear on their own if they are not treated. During the physical examination, small lung nodules were found. The formation of the small nodules may be due to nodules left over from tuberculosis infection, or they may be due to lung tumor nodules. Of course, we cannot rule out the possibility that it is an inflammatory nodule. If it is an inflammatory nodule, it will disappear after anti-inflammatory treatment.

What is the cause of “disappearing” lung nodules?

1. Misdiagnosis:

During the initial examination, it may have been misdiagnosed as a "pulmonary nodule" due to opaque items on the clothing.

2. Not scanned:

If the lung nodule is only a few millimeters, another possible scenario is that the thickness of each CT layer is greater than the nodule and it is not scanned, and is mistakenly considered to have "disappeared".

3. The condition recurs and fluctuates:

A more serious situation is that many lung diseases can cause lung nodules. Some nodules will "disappear" after a period of time, but the possibility of recurrence cannot be ruled out after "disappearance". For this unpredictable situation, patients should undergo regular follow-up examinations and pay close attention to changes in their bodies.

How to treat "disappearing" lung nodules

Many people who are diagnosed with lung nodules think they are just a minor matter and always ignore them. Especially when the lung nodules "disappear", you feel that you have been freed from the disease and there is no need to worry too much. Do not be too careless about lung nodules that “disappear” without treatment. Because "disappearance" does not mean that there is no problem, it just cannot be seen by the naked eye, and imaging examinations also have a certain rate of missed diagnosis. At this time, you must pay attention and go to the hospital in time for comprehensive cancer prevention screening.

How to properly eliminate lung nodules

Except for situations where cancer screening results show no lesions, confirmed lung nodules, whether benign or malignant, must be actively treated. The development of lung nodules from small to large and from benign to malignant lung cancer is a gradual process. Clinically, the mutation of nodules into lung cancer has become the main factor in the etiology of lung cancer, and patients should pay great attention to it. Many patients are eventually diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer, and due to timely treatment, their prognosis is very ideal.