Benign lung nodules can have a few different causes. These include current and past infections in the lungs and inflammation in the body from a condition like rheumatoid arthritis. A lung nodule is a ...

What to do for this 7-year-old boy who was admitted to hospital 1 week after developing a fever that reached temperatures up to 40.2°C (104.4°F)? He was very lethargic and spitting up phlegm when he ...

Dr. Esra D. Gumuser (Medicine): A 48-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of multiple lung and liver lesions identified during an evaluation for abdominal pain. The patient had been in ...

What Are Benign Lung Nodules and Benign Lung Tumors? A nodule is a "spot on the lung," seen on an X-ray or computed tomography (CT) scan. In fact, a nodule shows up on about one in every 500 chest ...

Lung nodules are small growths in your lungs, less than 30 millimeters in diameter. Many nodules aren’t cancerous, but the risk becomes higher with increased size. A lung nodule is an irregular growth ...