Talk:Incidentaloma

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 Definition:  Tumour found by coincidence without clinical symptoms or suspicion. [d] [e]
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Trauma variant (VOMIT)?

My trauma surgery friends refer to Victims Of Modern Imaging Technology, who get stat imaging, and then variously may operate for what turns out to be an artifact with no clinical correlate. There are also complaints of, for example, getting an indication of thoracic vascular damage from CT, and decide they want an additional angiogram before an interventional or surgical procedure &mdash for which the clock may be running out.

Does this fall into the same category as an incidentaloma? Of course, there are any number of clinical lab tests that can conflict with the clinical situation -- are troponins the Magic Mirror of AMI confirmation?

It's unfortunate that "Treat the patient, not the chart, Doctor. The chart isn't sick" would not fly as an article title.

22:15, 16 August 2008 (CDT)

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