How do you approach incidental image findings with unclear clinical significance?
I.e., adrenal/renal mass vs cysts, pancreatic lesions
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Primary Care · Mount Sinai Doctors Medical Group
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I approach them as findings, regardless of how they were acquired they need to be managed. In primary care one of the biggest drivers of malpractice cases is failure to act on a finding, just because it wasn't something you were directly looking for does not protect you. So manage the finding. Work ...
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General Internal Medicine · University of Chicago
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Thank you for this complicated question. I think the approach to incidental findings requires an approach that varies depending on the risk related to the lesion and the concern for malignancy. When incidental lesions are noted, I do make sure to address. While I'm not an expert on the criteria for ...
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