Type:
Educational Exhibit
Keywords:
Abdomen, Veins / Vena cava, Oncology, CT, CT-Angiography, Ultrasound, Cost-effectiveness, Screening, Acute, Embolism / Thrombosis, Cancer
Authors:
N. El Saeity1, A. Mrinalini2, N. Ramesh3; 1Cheshire/UK, 2Hyderabad/IN, 3Portlaoise/IE
DOI:
10.1594/ecr2018/C-1964
Findings and procedure details
Whilst several studies showed low occurrence of unprovoked VTE {around 4 %},
we found it to be around 6 %.
While it is still a low yield,
the clinical team found it useful for short and long term management of their patients,
to reduce stress for patients awaiting results and follow up.
Some of the patients may be lost in the waiting lists or might forget to attend their clinics
The pathway we follow in our cohort of patients,
included
1.
Haematological work up
2.
CT Thorax,
Abdomen and Pelvis { CT TAP}
3.
Follow up clinical assessment and imaging if initial imaging was negative
The commonest cancer encountered was pancreatic tumours followed by renal tumours { Figure 1},
other findings included various types of lymphomas,
carcinoid,
pulmonary neoplasia,
pulmonary tuberculosis and atrial myxomas