A 58-year-old Black man with hypertension and diabetes mellitus presents with a growing, solitary nodule on his lower back that has been present for the past year.
Many nodules aren’t cancerous, but the risk becomes higher with increased size. A lung nodule is an irregular growth in your lungs that has a diameter of less than 30 millimeters (mm), or 1.2 ...
The malignancy probability was calculated using Artificial intelligence pulmonary nodule auxiliary diagnosis system, or Mayo model. Along with age, sex, smoking history and nodule size, 18 variables ...