Darkening of the lungs on fluorography

A list of obligatory annual medical examinations procedures contains a fluorography study of the lungs. This helps to identify at the initial stages of the disease, which in the aftermath can be difficult. An indicator that you should immediately consult a specialist is the detection of spots on the lungs when viewing the fluorography.

What does darkening in the lungs mean?

Before getting to see a doctor, the patient who manifested such an unpleasant symptom, thinks about what it means to black out in the lungs. Without a doubt, this is an alarming sign of worsening your health, but do not despair at once. There are a lot of reasons for the appearance of blackout on the fluorography in the lungs, so in order to make a final diagnosis, the therapist should assign you additional tests that could reveal other symptoms of this or that disease:

  1. Most often, blackout in the lungs demonstrates inflammatory processes and tissue tightening, which can be caused by a number of infectious diseases.
  2. Dark spots can also appear due to the appearance of nodes of tumor formations, which is even more unpleasant. In this case, fluorography becomes the only detection of oncology, so doctors strongly recommend taking it regularly.
  3. In addition, darkening of the lungs can indicate the development of tuberculosis, which is why with a prolonged cough that does not respond to conventional expectorants, the doctor should give an appointment for fluorography, no matter how long you have been doing it.
  4. If an impenetrable area appears in the picture, a blackout also appears. But the symptom can also appear when there are such problems with the pleura (the membrane that covers the lungs and chest cavity), like finding fluid in the pleura, inflammation or purulent abscesses.

Also, dark spots on the lungs during fluorography can be a signal of problems with other organs, for example:

But, strange as it may seem, a dark spot in a picture can mean not only the development or neglect of a serious illness, but also the consequences of a transferred pneumonia or bronchitis. These diseases leave after themselves nodules on the lung tissues, which do not do any harm, and in the end they dissolve completely, so they should not be feared.

Types of blackouts

Darkness is divided in shape and quantity. Single segments indicate benign or malignant tumors. If there are many spots in the picture, then they can talk about several pathologies:

It is also important to arrange the segments. So, if the image shows a darkening of the apex of the lung, then this may indicate tuberculosis , but the doctor should recommend, in addition to additional tests that are prescribed for suspected illness, repeated passage of fluorography.

If the picture shows a spot with fuzzy borders, this may indicate pneumonia. This manifestation in the picture, as a rule, is accompanied by temperature, headaches and weakness. But sometimes inflammation of the lungs can occur without high values ​​on the thermometer.

And the obscuration of an undefined geometric shape can be the result of several violations:

These symptoms are accompanied by weakness, dizziness and coughing.