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What Causes A Cyst On The Lung?

I went to the er over the weekend with abdominal pain.

Turns out it was a kidney stone.

What worries me is on the ct scan they found a 5cm cyst on my left lower lung.

I have an appointment later this week with my doctor.

How concerned should I be?

thank You

I'm male 59 good health 5'10" 190 lbs
Wed, 8 Mar 2017
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Multiple lung cysts are the main finding of a group of diseases called cystic lung diseases. Those diseases will frequently present lung cysts that can be of the same size or not, and may have other lung parenchima alterations in CT scans, like ground glass opacities. Lung function impairment of varying degree is also commonly present at diagnosis. The finding of a isolated, small lung cyst, most of the times does not correlate with any pathology. This kind of cysts can appear in individuals as they age, can be a sequelae of a previous infection or can sometimes be found in assymptomatic smokers.
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What Causes A Cyst On The Lung?

Multiple lung cysts are the main finding of a group of diseases called cystic lung diseases. Those diseases will frequently present lung cysts that can be of the same size or not, and may have other lung parenchima alterations in CT scans, like ground glass opacities. Lung function impairment of varying degree is also commonly present at diagnosis. The finding of a isolated, small lung cyst, most of the times does not correlate with any pathology. This kind of cysts can appear in individuals as they age, can be a sequelae of a previous infection or can sometimes be found in assymptomatic smokers.