As part of a comprehensive lung exam, a doctor may try to listen for various sounds by tapping your back and chest with their hand, which is a test called percussion. If the percussion produces a drum ...

Diagnosis of lung cancer is usually confirmed with a lung biopsy. The doctor guides a thin, lighted tube through your nose or mouth and down the air passages to the tumor and removes a tiny tissue ...

If there is one medical exam that everyone in the world has taken, it's a chest x-ray. Clinicians can use radiographs to tell if someone has tuberculosis, lung cancer, or other diseases, but they ...

Chantelle was diagnosed with bronchiectasis, a long-term condition where the airways of the lungs become abnormally widened and retain fluid A STUDENT’S ‘exam anxiety’ turned out to be a potentially ...

Comprehensive heart and lung exams could help determine why some COVID-19 survivors still experience shortness of breath. Several patients had previously had regular testing, such as pulmonary ...