🧠Up to 40% of whole-body CTs reveal an “incidental finding”—a spot on the liver, a thyroid nodule, an adrenal bump. Most are benign. But which one isn’t? We now face a crisis of overdiagnosis . We find things that would never cause harm, but once seen, they can’t be unseen. That tiny lung nodule? It might vanish on its own. But guidelines say: scan again in 6 months. Then maybe biopsy. Then maybe surgery.
🔍 A generation ago, a chest X-ray showed you lungs, heart, and bones. If something was big enough to cast a shadow, you called it. Today, with 3D mammography, ultra-high-res CT, and 7T MRI, we see things our predecessors couldn’t have dreamed of: nodules the size of a grain of rice, incidental cysts, subtle bone marrow changes. radiolog
We think of radiology as the ultimate “window into the body.” But here’s the quiet truth: the clearer our images get, the harder the questions become. 🧠Up to 40% of whole-body CTs reveal
#Radiology #MedicalImaging #Overdiagnosis #AIinMedicine #MedEd We now face a crisis of overdiagnosis
👇 What’s your experience? Have you or a patient ever been down the “incidentaloma” rabbit hole?