30 Sep What to do about incidental findings

DiagnosticImaging.com | September 29 – Pathologies such as infections, or even tumors, crop up from time to time in patients examined for entirely unrelated issues. These “incidental findings” can put doctors – and patients – in a tight spot. How do they proceed with the patient, knowing that many of the asymptomatic signs of disease may never lead to clinical problems, or may simply be false positives?

For those who have run into this situation and chosen the path of less interventiona, there is now research evidence that they likely did the right thing.

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