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Any isolated mass lesion found in the lung, usually during an x-ray study performed for another reason. Most small masses that are identified in this way are benign, although smokers, patients already known to have cancer in another organ system, and older patients have an increased risk that a solitary nodule will be a new malignancy or a metastasis from another source.<\/p>\n

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Any isolated mass lesion found in the lung, usually during an x-ray study performed for another reason. Most small masses that are identified in this way are benign, although smokers, patients already known to have cancer in another organ system, and older patients have an increased risk that a solitary nodule will be a new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s"],"yoast_head":"\nSolitary pulmonary nodule - Definition of Solitary pulmonary nodule<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Any isolated mass lesion found in the lung, usually during an x-ray study performed for another reason. 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