I booked an appointment for CT scan of the chest. What organs are involved in the work of tomography scanner and description?

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CT scan of thoracic organs can show many abnormalities of the heart, lungs, and other chest organs, including the following:

Wall rupture, abnormal enlargement or narrowing of the aorta;
Other pathological changes in large vessels in lungs and chest;
Accumulation of blood or fluid around the heart;
Lung cancer or cancer spread to the lungs from other organs;
Accumulation of fluid around the lungs (in the pleural cavity);
Damage, expansion or obstruction of large air ways (trachea, bronchi);
Swollen lymph nodes;
Lung disease when lung tissue becomes inflamed and then damaged (interstitial lesions);
Pneumonia;
Cancer of esophagus;
Lymphoma in the chest;
Tumors, nodules or cysts in the chest.
Pathology of bone structures;
Structural changes in thyroid, thymus, adrenal glands;
Schwannomas, neuromas;
Diseases of pleura.

Most pathologies are examined with a contrast agent. Without a contrast agent, it is only possible to assume that there is a problem.

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