Inadvertent discovery of mass in lung — ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are called incidentalomas- random things in your body that just exist and you’d never know about except for scans to look for other things. The stress they cause and then the testing, etc. are a big reason why doctors won’t just give diagnostic MRI or scans routinely to find stuff. It’s probably nothing. It could be something. I hope it’s not since it’s on the pleura.

Yes I have a nodule on my liver, probably a hemangioma. Now maybe I need an MRI? Oh dear.

I have these also and had ultrasounds to check for stability (it was stable) then they said only 100% proof is MRI but that was years ago. They essentially have proof from the ultrasound it's just that ultrasounds aren't diagnostic really.
I actually did not get the MRI because the only reason you have mass on liver is liver cancer (almost impossible unless older man or hepatitis) or is stage 4. I have had colonoscopy, mammo, lung ct and abdominal and pelvic ultrasound so i figured - if there's no cancer there it can't be stage 4. you could also just get the mri but thought my thinking might be helpful.

[Anonymous]

"I actually did not get the MRI because the only reason you have mass on liver is liver cancer (almost impossible unless older man or hepatitis) or is stage 4."

OP here -- I actually have *hepatic endometriosis.* This means that I have endometrial tissue blobs on my liver. I've had one removed from my groin and then 3-4 more were found -- on my liver. So I would disagree that the "only" mass on livers are necessarily cancer or hepatitis!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I actually did not get the MRI because the only reason you have mass on liver is liver cancer (almost impossible unless older man or hepatitis) or is stage 4."

OP here -- I actually have *hepatic endometriosis.* This means that I have endometrial tissue blobs on my liver. I've had one removed from my groin and then 3-4 more were found -- on my liver. So I would disagree that the "only" mass on livers are necessarily cancer or hepatitis!

I’m the PP who first mentioned incidentalomas. Before my grandpa died he said something to my sister to the effect of “our family are just lumpy people.” You sound like a lumpy person. Nothing really wrong, you just have lumps all over and one got picked up on a CT!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"I actually did not get the MRI because the only reason you have mass on liver is liver cancer (almost impossible unless older man or hepatitis) or is stage 4."

OP here -- I actually have *hepatic endometriosis.* This means that I have endometrial tissue blobs on my liver. I've had one removed from my groin and then 3-4 more were found -- on my liver. So I would disagree that the "only" mass on livers are necessarily cancer or hepatitis!

oh interesting!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are called incidentalomas- random things in your body that just exist and you’d never know about except for scans to look for other things. The stress they cause and then the testing, etc. are a big reason why doctors won’t just give diagnostic MRI or scans routinely to find stuff. It’s probably nothing. It could be something. I hope it’s not since it’s on the pleura.

Fully agree with this. Great term, incidentalomas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had something twice that size that also lit up like crazy in a PET scan but it biopsied negative, started to shrink quickly, and was deemed merely inflammation/pneumonia. I think that means that imaging can make something look like an actual tumor when in fact it is just phlegm/tissue swelling, i.e. not really a ‘thing’ at all. Radiology still doesn’t provide easy-to-interpret images in many cases.

The whole thing was terrifying, and it’s taken almost a year to disappear.

This happened to my mil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are called incidentalomas- random things in your body that just exist and you’d never know about except for scans to look for other things. The stress they cause and then the testing, etc. are a big reason why doctors won’t just give diagnostic MRI or scans routinely to find stuff. It’s probably nothing. It could be something. I hope it’s not since it’s on the pleura.

Yes I have a nodule on my liver, probably a hemangioma. Now maybe I need an MRI? Oh dear.

I have these also and had ultrasounds to check for stability (it was stable) then they said only 100% proof is MRI but that was years ago. They essentially have proof from the ultrasound it's just that ultrasounds aren't diagnostic really.
I actually did not get the MRI because the only reason you have mass on liver is liver cancer (almost impossible unless older man or hepatitis) or is stage 4. I have had colonoscopy, mammo, lung ct and abdominal and pelvic ultrasound so i figured - if there's no cancer there it can't be stage 4. you could also just get the mri but thought my thinking might be helpful.

Livers can also be fatty or there can be a hemangioma that is not cancer.