“What does a chest scan reveal for a cough?”
My doctor wants me to have a chest scan because of a chronic cough that I've been dealing with for the past two weeks. My sinuses do feel... off, and he feels like a scan would reveal a a sinus infection or something similar to that. What other things does a chest scan reveal for a cough?
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Pneumonia and cancer, among other things. It is better than a chest X-ray.
It would show you whether you have other processes going on besides pneumonia or bronchitis such as interstitial lung disease. It would also see if there are abnormalites of the mediastinum or bronchi such as adenopathy or endobronchial lesions. It would help to exclude lung mass as a cause. The list goes on and a chest scan or chest CT can be very helpful in the correct clinical setting.
