One thing that can show on a CT scan or X-ray is a degree of haziness referred to as opacity. This can indicate a concern, but your doctor may want more testing to determine the cause of any potential ...

Ground glass opacity (GGO) refers to the hazy gray areas that can show up in CT scans of the lungs. These areas show increased density inside the lungs which could indicate pneumonia or other ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought radiologists' penchant for descriptive terms front-and-center, with frequent references to one feature in particular: ground-glass opacities. The term refers to the ...

With the introduction of high-resolution chest CTs and now more widespread adoption of screening chest CTs in people at high risk for lung cancer, we see small, ambiguous lung nodules with increasing ...

Perceptions about lung cancer have long been shaped by the prevalence of smoking as a heavy predictor of disease, but doctors have grown increasingly concerned about a growing number of cancer cases ...

Coronavirus patients with severe cases often have difficulty breathing. That's because their lungs fill with fluid, which shows up on a CT scan in the form of white patches called "ground glass." ...

Medical imagery of people suffering from COVID-19—the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus—shows how the condition affects the lungs of patients. CT scans have become the "first line of ...