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Does anyone here know anything about how CT scans are interpreted?
I just had the strange experience of having had first a CT scan report of three potentially suspected nodules in my lungs (size, shape and location described in detail) then having the images re-read by pulmonary radiation oncologists at a major cancer center who found “nothing at all.” It wasn’t that they found the nodules to have a benign appearance. They said (or rather another oncologist reported that they said) that they found nothing at all, not even benign nodules.
How weird is this? Could the first radiologist have been hallucinating? Could the local imaging place have given me the wrong images to take down to Moffitt? Maybe the Moffitt oncologists actually meant “nothing suspicious” when they said “nothing at all” and the other oncologist merely misinterpreted what they were saying?
BTW, I also had a chest X-ray done right before the CT scan and the chest X-day also showed abnormalities in the right upper lobe. The chest X-ray and the CT scan were done completely independently at two different local medical facilities for different reasons and read by different radiologists.
So, on the one hand I have two completely independent local radiologists saying there was something in my upper right lobe and more than one expert at Moffitt saying there was nothing at all!
Does anyone here know anything about how CT scans are interpreted?
I just had the strange experience of having had first a CT scan report of three potentially suspected nodules in my lungs (size, shape and location described in detail) then having the images re-read by pulmonary radiation oncologists at a major cancer center who found “nothing at all.” It wasn’t that they found the nodules to have a benign appearance. They said (or rather another oncologist reported that they said) that they found nothing at all, not even benign nodules.
How weird is this? Could the first radiologist have been hallucinating? Could the local imaging place have given me the wrong images to take down to Moffitt? Maybe the Moffitt oncologists actually meant “nothing suspicious” when they said “nothing at all” and the other oncologist merely misinterpreted what they were saying?
BTW, I also had a chest X-ray done right before the CT scan and the chest X-day also showed abnormalities in the right upper lobe. The chest X-ray and the CT scan were done completely independently at two different local medical facilities for different reasons and read by different radiologists.
So, on the one hand I have two completely independent local radiologists saying there was something in my upper right lobe and more than one expert at Moffitt saying there was nothing at all!
Any insight into this problem?
This would be my concern. Any chance you could get the local radiologist to call the Moffit doc and have a 'meeting if the minds'? Seems like a reasonable request under the circumstance.