The burden of incidental findings in clinical practice in a tertiary care center

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 123-126

  Soultati, Aspasia ^a   Alexopoulou, Alexandra ^a   Dourakis, Spyridon P ^a   Dimopoulou, Helen ^a   Katsaounis, Panayiotis ^a   Cokkinos, Demosthenes ^b   Archimandritis, Athanasios J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b HIPPOKRATION HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adrenal masses; Focal liver lesions; Gallstones; Liver cysts; Liver steatosis; Renal cysts

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADRENAL TUMOR; ADULT; ARACHNOID CYST; ARTICLE; BLADDER DIVERTICULUM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; ESOPHAGUS DIVERTICULOSIS; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; GALLSTONE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HORSESHOE KIDNEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INCIDENTALOMA; KIDNEY; KIDNEY CYST; LIVER; LIVER CYST; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER INJURY; LUNG LESION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OVARY CYST; PHYSICAL DISEASE BY BODY FUNCTION; PREVALENCE; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SPLEEN CYST; SPLEEN INJURY; STOMACH POLYP; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THYROID NODULE; UROGENITAL SYSTEM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES; MALE; MALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77549085941     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2009.12.012     Document Type: Article

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