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versión On-line ISSN 1560-4381
Resumen
MELO MEDEROS, Zenia Amparo et al. Lung nodules image characterization at the Academic General Hospital Vladimir I. Lenin, Holguín, Cuba. ccm [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.3, pp. 718-738. Epub 01-Sep-2019. ISSN 1560-4381.
Introduction:
lung cancer is one of the first death causes, in Cuba. They appear in X-rays as rounded opacities less than 3 cm. Procedures are necessary to determine their benign or malign nature. Images characteristic research with computerized X-rays, recently installed in the institution are objectives of the Ministry of Public Health in Cuba.
Objective:
to characterize incidental lung nodules in patients assisted at the Academic General Hospital Vladimir I. Lenin, Holguín, Cuba, from July to September 2017.
Method:
a retrospective observational study based on 42 patients sample, with computerized X-rays incidental nodules, older than 35 without congestive vascular affection. Ethical principles were fulfilled.
Results:
nodules were predominant in patients between 61 and 79 years old (50%) and the amount of male doubled feminine patients. The right lung was the most affected (64%), in the higher field (41%) in the peripheral area (60%) and in all locations size was less than 6 mm.
The subsolid nodules (n=64) were presented as grinding glass (67%), those in solid parts (33%), speculations in a 25%. About 40.4% of patients classified as high risk, 21.4% low risk and 38.1% intermediate risk.
Conclusions:
nodules were identified by computerized X-rays nodules as very small and characterized according to recent imagenological classification, clinical aspects and epidemiological antecedents, including smoking habit allowed risk cancer contrast in lung nodule incidental bearer.
Palabras clave : lung nodule; computerized X-ray; smoking; lung cancer management guide; risk prescription models.