Afternoon,I Had a chest x-ray Jan 20, 2011 due to a minor accident wherein I fractured a right rib and bruised the remainder of ribs.  I received a telcall from the attending Doctor about a 1/2 hour ago checking on how my ribs felt. He then told me that they had detected a little spot way down at the bottom of my right lung which looked like there may be some apical-plural thickening.  He wants me to have a C.T.  Your thoughts? Thanks for your help, Lud Habada608.795.4717
Thanks for your question on Chat Doctor. I can understand your concern. Chest x-ray is just a screening tool for lung and pleural diseases. So whenever something is found on chest x-ray especially mass or nodule, it is better to go for CT scan to have detailed idea about the lesion. CT scan is 3 dimensional images of lung and pleura. So this will be give better and perfect idea about suspicious opacity of right lung. So get done CT thorax. Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wish you good health. Thanks.