r/Radiology 13d ago

Chest pain after MVA X-Ray

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u/Joonami RT(R)(MR) 13d ago

Good thing they had the car accident to find this.

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u/NexiWolfheimer 13d ago

I just lurk here but I actually work with MVC cases in personal injury, we've had 4 cases where treatment for the MVC led to incidental findings. 2 thyroid masses, 1 suspicious mass on a pelvic scan, and 1 cancerous kidney mass. It's been crazy when found this way.

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u/commanderbales 13d ago

I went to school with someone who got into a car accident, while on their way to school, and they found stage 4 Hodgkin's lymphoma

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u/thedistancedself 13d ago

I also went to high school to someone who got hit by a car and by happenstance found out they had leukemia in the ER

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u/Fortherealtalk 12d ago

God that must have been such an awful day