Incidental Radiological Findings

This book covers incidental radiological findings (IFs) from different perspectives, provides interesting ethical background information, highlights the differences between IFs in clinical routine and during research studies, explains the management of IFs with reference to practices in different countries. The prevalence of IFs is increasing due to the wider use of modern imaging modalities in routine clinical practice and large population-based cohort studies. The reporting of these findings may lead to further diagnostic investigations and treatment and must therefore be handled with knowledge and care. The management of IFs in clinical routine is regulated by the guidelines of the different academic societies, while management in the setting of research studies depends on a variety of factors. In general, IFs must be disclosed to the imaged subject if they are potentially clinically relevant, but subjects must also be protected from the consequences of false positive findings. This book, written by distinguished experts in their fields, discusses all these issues and will be of interest to radiologists, other clinicians, and radiographers/technicians.

List of contents

Part I Introduction.- Chapter 1 Incidental Findings: Definition of the Concept.- Chapter 2 Incidental Findings - Ethical Aspects.- Chapter 3 Medicolegal aspects and informed consent.- Part II IFs in population based imaging / reseach setting.- Chapter 4 Technical Prerequisites of Population-Based Imaging.- Part III Handling / Management of IFs in different countries / population based studies.- Chapter 5 SHIP.- Chapter 6 Management of Incidental Findings in the German National Cohort.- Chapter 7 UK Biobank.- Chapter 8 Management of incidental findings on neuroimaging in The Rotterdam Study.- Chapter 9 Incidental Findings in a Population Based Study Using Cardiac CT Experience from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA).- Chapter 10 Major incidental findings and their handling in the Swedish CArdioPulmonary BioImage Study (SCAPIS).- Part IV Differences between IF in population based imaging and patients.- Chapter 11 Management of Incidental Findings in Patients.- Chapter 12Categories of IFs / Examples of important Ifs.- Chapter 13 Incidental Findings on Abdominal CT.- Chapter 14 Incidental findings in 18F-FDG PET/CT and PET/MR.- Chapter 15 Incidental Findings in Ultrasound.

About the author

Sabine Weckbach graduated from Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany, in 2003. Her medical studies included training at the Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, USA, University of California in San Diego, USA, and Kantonspital St.Gallen, Switzerland.
Professor Weckbach was trained in radiology at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich under the guidance of Professor Maximilian Reiser and had her radiology board examination at University Medicine Mannheim in 2009. In 2010, she became a faculty member and associate professor at the Department of Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. In 2012 Sabine Weckbach became associate professor at the Department of Radiology in Heidelberg (Department chair: Professor Kauczor) and in May 2016 she was announced full professor of Radiology. Professor Weckbach’s research focuses on MR imaging of musculoskeletal and inflammatory diseases, musculoskeletal diagnostics and whole body MR imaging. Moreover, she is deeply involved in the MR imaging part of the German National Cohort and is co-leading the MR Imaging Core for Incidental Findings of the German National Cohort.

Summary

This book covers incidental radiological findings (IFs) from different perspectives, provides interesting ethical background information, highlights the differences between IFs in clinical routine and during research studies, explains the management of IFs with reference to practices in different countries. The prevalence of IFs is increasing due to the wider use of modern imaging modalities in routine clinical practice and large population-based cohort studies. The reporting of these findings may lead to further diagnostic investigations and treatment and must therefore be handled with knowledge and care. The management of IFs in clinical routine is regulated by the guidelines of the different academic societies, while management in the setting of research studies depends on a variety of factors. In general, IFs must be disclosed to the imaged subject if they are potentially clinically relevant, but subjects must also be protected from the consequences of false positive findings. This book, written by distinguished experts in their fields, discusses all these issues and will be of interest to radiologists, other clinicians, and radiographers/technicians.

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“This slim volume is unique in its overview of the subject of incidental findings. ... I highly recommend this book. Its section on the clinical aspects of incidental findings is a useful overview for the practising specialist. But its treatises on the ethical and medicolegal aspects of finding incidentalomas are its standout sections, and not covered well in other texts I have seen.” (Dr. Daniel Bell, RAD Magazine, January, 2018)

Report

"This slim volume is unique in its overview of the subject of incidental findings. ... I highly recommend this book. Its section on the clinical aspects of incidental findings is a useful overview for the practising specialist. But its treatises on the ethical and medicolegal aspects of finding incidentalomas are its standout sections, and not covered well in other texts I have seen." (Dr. Daniel Bell, RAD Magazine, January, 2018)

Product details

• Assisted by: Sabin Weckbach (Editor), Sabine Weckbach (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9783319425795
• ISBN: 978-3-31-942579-5
• No. of pages: 209
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 263 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 672 g
• Illustrations: IX, 209 p. 150 illus., 50 illus. in color.
• Series: Medical Radiology; Diagnostic Imaging; Medical Radiology; Diagnostic Imaging
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; B, Medicine, Klinische und Innere Medizin, Radiology, INTERNAL MEDICINE, Diagnostic Radiology, Clinical & internal medicine, Reporting of Incidental Findings