Lung screening can detect cancers that are not yet causing symptoms. An X-ray of the lungs allows a specialist to detect any lesions in time. A chest CT scan gives an even clearer picture of abnormalities.
Lung screening used to play an important role in the fight against tuberculosis, or TB, but with the decline of the infectious disease, it is now used to detect serious lung diseases such as lung cancer early.
Chest X-rays can be used to detect various infections or chest air pockets that can cause the lungs to collapse. It can also indicate chronic lung diseases such as emphysema or cystic fibrosis and complications associated with these diseases.
A CT scan of the chest can also help to detect lung problems such as lung cancer, pneumonia, nodular lung lesions, the presence of fluid in the lungs or a decrease in lung airflow. It can also be used to determine whether there are signs of metastatic lesions in the lung tissue or lymph nodes.
Following the screening tests, we will also recommend any further work that needs to be done (follow-up, additional or specialist tests).
During a chest X-ray, the patient stands shirtless in front of the X-ray machine with shoulders rolled forward. The X-ray assistant will ask you to take a deep breath and hold it in for a few seconds while the X-ray is taken.
During the chest CT scan, you should lie still while the scanning assistant gives instructions over a loudspeaker. The CT scanner works by a lying surface sliding in and out of a wide ring. The scanner uses a special low-dose X-ray beam to take a series of images of the lungs, which are stitched together by a computer. The procedure is quick and painless and takes only a few minutes.
Chest CT gives a more detailed picture than X-ray. A chest X-ray, for example, can identify an abnormality, but a chest CT can also show its exact location and the nature of the abnormality.
Lung screening can be done quickly and without queuing without a referral. At the Wáberer Medical Center, bronchoscopy and contrast-enhanced chest CT scans are available for the diagnosis of lung tumors. MR and CT scans can also be done at our institute to rule out metastases to other organs as a result of lung tumours.”
Furthermore, either abdominopelvic, chest-abdominopelvic, skull with contrast-enhanced CT, or abdominopelvic, skull with contrast-enhanced MR can be referred to here!
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