CT: computed tomography; CAP: community-acquired pneumonia.
* Criteria for lung cancer screening vary among clinical practice guidelines (eg, thresholds for age and duration of smoking therapy). Refer to UpToDate text for detail.
¶ Exceptions include patients who are followed radiographically for other reasons (eg, selected patients with advanced structural lung disease). Whether patients with small pleural effusions require follow-up is an open question. We generally do not obtain follow-up imagining unless the patient is slow to recover or develops new systemic or respiratory symptoms.Do you want to add Medilib to your home screen?