How to make differential diagnosis of lung cancer? The diagnosis of lung cancer mainly depends on these three aspects

Lung cancer is a common lung disease. Now more and more people are paying attention to its diagnosis, mainly because early treatment of the disease is very important. However, the symptoms of early lung cancer are similar to those of many other diseases and are easily ignored, leading to misdiagnosis and mistreatment, which delays the disease. Therefore, correct differential diagnosis is critical. Let the experts explain how to make differential diagnosis of lung cancer.

1. Benign lung tumor

Peripheral lung cancer should be differentiated from benign lung tumors. Benign lung tumors generally have no obvious clinical symptoms and are a long-term, slowly developing disease. On X-rays, they appear as nearly circular masses with calcification points, neat contours, clear boundaries, and no lobes.

2. Solitary metastatic lung cancer

Solitary metastatic lung cancer is difficult to distinguish from primary peripheral lung cancer, and the differential diagnosis of these two diseases is very important. Clinically, the differentiation mainly depends on the detailed medical history and the symptoms and signs of the primary cancer.

3. Mediastinal tumor

Central lung cancer is sometimes confused with mediastinal tumors, so its differential diagnosis should be taken seriously.

The above explains in detail how to make a differential diagnosis of lung cancer. In fact, there are many diseases that are easily confused with lung cancer. Detailed differentiation and differential diagnosis are very important. Therefore, when patients find symptoms, they must make a detailed diagnosis and not rush to deal with it because of the trouble, which will bring more adverse consequences to themselves.