CT scan report not complete. Has this happened to you?
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A few weeks ago, I was told I needed a CT scan, with contrast, as an ultrasound scan of my kidneys showed that I had two benign tumours, which was a new finding. The CT scan was to look at the tumours more closely, provide a definitive diagnosis and find out their size.
When I saw a urologist about the results - he wasn't the urologist who had ordered the CT scan - the report mentioned my kidney stones, but there was no mention at all of these tumours. I was reassured by the urologist that the tumours were small, according to the ultrasound scan, but he could give me no reason why the report wasn't complete. I later got in touch with the urologist's secretary, as I was rather unhappy, and she said that she would speak to him, but, as yet, I haven't heard anything back.
I will be seeing my GP next week to discuss this and have made copious notes about what happened and what I want to know, i.e. a definite diagnosis, the size of the tumours and how they are going to be monitored.
I just wondered if this had happened to anyone else and how they had dealt with it.
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Luffy89 Cheetah
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When a ct is done like the one you have had it gets sent to a specialist radiologist who will have a look at it and write a report About any abnormalities or if its normal. The problem is there is usually only one specialist on each day and all emergency scans from a&e and other places will get sent to this guy too. These scans will take priority over your scan so it might be a case that yours has bedn put to the back of the que.
annie1963 Cheetah
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If you had tumors, the CT scan would definitely show it. The report would indicate it. Ultrasound may have said tumors, but until you have a CT the word 'tumor' should probably not have been used. Did you read the reports yourself? Did the US report say definite tumor? Or POSSIBLE tumor? Or Lesion of unknown etiology? All of these terms could have been describing something that was just the stones, but was unidentifiable on the US.
Cheetah annie1963
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Thanks for your replies, Annie and Luffy. According to my GP, the ultrasound report said 5mm and 6mm angiomyolipomas, one on each kidney. These are benign tumours and this was why one of the urologists wanted to look more closely at them with a CT scan. I've since changed hospitals and will be seeing a new urologist tomorrow, so, here's hoping that things are a little clearer soon.