There may be a few more medical posts these weeks as I am working a lot while 2-3 other docs are away.
That big white thing in the upper right lung (your left) shouldn't be there. It is a medical student quiz question: a Pancoast's tumor.
These cancers often damage very specific nerves and medical students the world over memorize the rhyme, "Meosis, Ptosis, and Anhidrosis". Ptosis (toe-sis) is a droopy eyelid on the affected side.
In his case there is nothing I can do aside from offering consolation.
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