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Occult Findings

Kevin Pho M.D. has written that a screening test incidentaloma can make healthy people ill.  This is a theme that appears too frequently in the medical literature. When I previously addressed this issue in a prior article it did not then occur to me that the argument might be used to impair patients receiving recommended screening. [...]

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OCCULT FINDINGS NOT INCIDENTALOMAS

by Jerry Meyers on February 9, 2010

Online Journal watch is a publication which surveys medical newly published medical literature and comments on various relevant medical issues. One of the January’s postings reported upon a study of patients being evaluated by  cardiac CT scan.  The study addressed, among other things, the value of utilizing information made available by reason of the study [...]

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