Missed Lung Cancers on the Scout View: Do We Look Every Time?

نویسندگان

  • Sarfraz Ahmed Nazir
  • Rachel Benamore
  • Fergus Gleeson
چکیده

Scout views are digital radiographs obtained to aid planning of the subsequent computed tomography (CT) examination. Review of these scout views may provide additional information not demonstrated on the axial images, but such reviews may not necessarily be performed routinely, especially in the context of abdominopelvic CT studies. We illustrate the value of the scout images by presenting a series of representative cases of missed pulmonary neoplasms in five patients who originally underwent such examinations.

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دوره 2013  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013