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Today's fav moment in clinic. Getting a CT head read for a child where the radiologist found some abnormality and said it was either an artifact

Posted by James Bond (aka phone) (aka Igor) Feb 22 '13, 20:01

(just some imaging error, nothing to worry about) or a neoplasm (cancer).

Likely seriously?! That is the differential?

(I understand that sometimes it is hard to read those CTs).
So now the kid will get an MRI. :/

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he's not really House, is he -- nm - charlie Feb 22, 20:02 5
- maybe, did he misdiagnose three times yet? -- nm - dogbert Feb 22, 20:18
- If he were House, he would go with some life threatening treatment based on the CT and then broken into the kid's house. -- nm - Dano Feb 22, 20:07 2
  - the kid woukld die at least onco and House would accuse his parents of lying at least three timess.of lying at le -- nm - tl Feb 22, 20:18
  - the -- nm - tl Feb 22, 20:16
- Seriously. The thing is that there is actually a neuroradiology fellowship which is 3 years. So at the big academic centers the head CTs/MRIs are - James Bond (aka phone) Feb 22, 20:07

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Today's fav moment in clinic. Getting a CT head read for a child where the radiologist found some abnormality and said it was either an artifact

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