Frecuencia de nódulos pulmonares solitarios en tomografía computarizada de tórax realizada a pacientes del Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga. Cuenca. Julio – Diciembre 2018

Abstract

Objective: To determine the frequency of solitary pulmonary nodules in patients who underwent computerized tomography of the chest in the period from July to December 2018 at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital in Cuenca, Ecuador. Material and Methodology: A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in patients who went to the Imaging Area of the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital, in the period July - December 2018, to perform a chest tomography. The sample size was 297 patients. The processing and analysis of the results were carried out in the statistical program SPSS v15 and the tables and graphs were prepared in Excel 2017. Results: The data were analyzed and we obtained the following results: 18.62% of 297 patients had solitary pulmonary nodules, 43.43% of them were male and 56.57% were female. The most common range of age is >= 65 years corresponding to elder people representing 54.88% of patients. On repeated times the location of this type of nodule was in the lower right lobe with 27.61%. The size of the nodules that appeared most is 5-10mm with 75.75%. According to density, the solid pattern was the most representative with 64.30%. Regarding calcification, it has a presence in 56.56%. Regarding the presence of contrast, 29.96% of SPN presented an enhancement with intravenous contrast. Finally, 58.92% of SPNs had a well delimited contour. Conclusions: With this research project, the frequency of solitary pulmonary nodule present in a certain population quantity was determined by computerized tomography.