‘When I started, a brain CT was 24 slices, and now it’s 240’: The menace of incidentalomas
There are limited guidelines on dealing with the known unknowns, say Aussie doctors.
Doctors are once more caught in a testing and diagnostic minefield: the minefield laid by the increasing detection of incidentalomas by increasingly powerful imaging machines.
“When I started, a CT scan of a brain was 24 slices, and now it is 240,” radiologist Associate Professor Tom Sutherland told The Sydney Morning Herald.
“The abdomen and pelvis slices used to be 5mm slices; now, we are down to 1mm.”
“But we’re seeing things that we never used to see,” adds the director of medical imaging at St Vincent’s Hospital in Melbourne.
