CT is an absolutely amazing tool. The amount of health information produced is astounding.
I had a CT done to follow up on an adenoma. As part of the evaluation of that scan, the MD noted something else that was easily treated but that could have been very serious in not too distant future (I'm being vague for personal reasons).
Here are a few snippets from one of my reports:
Normal heart size. Clear lung bases. No pleural or pericardial effusion.
Remaining noncontrast liver, pancreas, spleen, and left adrenal glands appear normal aside from benign 1.7 x 2 cm right adrenal adenoma.
No abdominal aortic aneurysm with mild circumferential atherosclerotic calcifications.
So, e.g. the MD noted mild atherosclerosis as just one of his "incidental" findings. Good to know.
CT is an absolutely amazing tool. The amount of health information produced is astounding.
I had a CT done to follow up on an adenoma. As part of the evaluation of that scan, the MD noted something else that was easily treated but that could have been very serious in not too distant future (I'm being vague for personal reasons).
Here are a few snippets from one of my reports:
Normal heart size. Clear lung bases. No pleural or pericardial effusion.
Remaining noncontrast liver, pancreas, spleen, and left adrenal glands appear normal aside from benign 1.7 x 2 cm right adrenal adenoma.
No abdominal aortic aneurysm with mild circumferential atherosclerotic calcifications.
So, e.g. the MD noted mild atherosclerosis as just one of his "incidental" findings. Good to know.