Help with CTScan results?!
Question: Help with CTScan results!?
My brother is asthmatic!. He recently had difficulty breathing and had low fever so he went for a physical checkup just last week!. He was advised to have a chest xray where it was found that there was a "widening of the mediastinum"!. He then underwent a CTScan, and these are the results:
"Right lower lobe pneumonitis considered!. Anterior mediastinal mass which could be:
1 lymphadenopathies
2 hyperplastic thymus(rebound hyperplasia of the thymus)
3 thymoma"
I am distraught!. I just want any information you could share regarding the above findings!. Thank you!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
"Right lower lobe pneumonitis considered!. Anterior mediastinal mass which could be:
1 lymphadenopathies
2 hyperplastic thymus(rebound hyperplasia of the thymus)
3 thymoma"
I am distraught!. I just want any information you could share regarding the above findings!. Thank you!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Don't wory about it!. Lymphadenopathy just means his lymph nodes are full, which could be anything from asthma, to infection (treatable most likely) to a lymphoma (also treatable)!.
A hyperplastic thymus is easy to treat!. After the age of 18 our thymus involutes and most of us don't have a functional one so they just remove it
A thymoma is a type of lymphoma in the thymus!. It's probably the worst of the three, but is still really treatable!. I would just sit back and relax, those three options aren't that bad and your brother should be fine!. In all odds, it's just his asthma not well controled!.
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A hyperplastic thymus is easy to treat!. After the age of 18 our thymus involutes and most of us don't have a functional one so they just remove it
A thymoma is a type of lymphoma in the thymus!. It's probably the worst of the three, but is still really treatable!. I would just sit back and relax, those three options aren't that bad and your brother should be fine!. In all odds, it's just his asthma not well controled!.
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1!. lymphadenopathies - you have many lymphnodes within your mediastinum and if any are inflamed for any reason they would be enlarged and widen your mediastinum!.
2!. Hyperplastic thymus - your thymus shrinks from the time of birth to about 2yrs old to nothing!. Hyperplastic means that for some reason his thymus is growing back, I have never heard of this phenomenon before!.
3!. Thymoma - A tumor of a hyperplastic thymus or normal thymus in an infant!.
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2!. Hyperplastic thymus - your thymus shrinks from the time of birth to about 2yrs old to nothing!. Hyperplastic means that for some reason his thymus is growing back, I have never heard of this phenomenon before!.
3!. Thymoma - A tumor of a hyperplastic thymus or normal thymus in an infant!.
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this question is best answered by the pulmonologist!.Www@Answer-Health@Com