Improving patient notification of solid abdominal viscera incidental findings with a standardized protocol

Improving patient notification of solid abdominal viscera incidental findings with a standardized protocol

BACKGROUND The increasing use of computed tomography (CT) scans in the evaluation of trauma patients has led to increased detection of incidental radiologic findings. Incidental findings (IFs) of the abdominal viscera are among the most commonly discovered lesions and can carry a risk of malignancy. Despite this, patient notification regarding these findings is often inadequate. METHODS We id...

Incidental unilateral tuberculous sacroiliitis detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT in a patient with abdominal tuberculosis.

Tuberculosis is a systemic disease which involves skeletal and articular system very rarely. Osteoarticular tuberculosis commonly occurs in the vertebral column and more rarely in the sacroiliac joints. In this study, we report a 44-years-old male patient with low-grade fever, malabsorption syndrome, abdominal and pelvic ascites and low-back pain, that underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT for identifying t...

A STANDARDIZED PROCESS OF PATIENT HANDOVER : Improving

Re: "managing incidental findings on abdominal CT: White Paper of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee".

As multidetector CT has come to play a more central role in medical care and as CT image quality has improved, there has been an increase in the frequency of detecting "incidental findings," defined as findings that are unrelated to the clinical indication for the imaging examination performed. These "incidentalomas," as they are also called, often confound physicians and patients with how to m...

Large Abdominal Viscera

On the 14th December 1905, at Fatehpur, I made a post-mortem examination of the body of an adult native male b}7 name Sheo Ram. The body was well nourished, and by appearances deceased was about 40 years of age. Rigor mortis was present. There was a contused wound of the scalp in the right parietal region from behind forwards three inches long. There was a similar contused wound of the scalp in...