Big Bad Pathology

Playlist contributed by Ian Bickle
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Why might we see such big extreme disease?

 

1.   Fear - late presentation

2.  Cultural -  judgement or societal, dress permitting it to be hidden

3.  Rural location with limited healthcare

4.  Cost - cannot afford to access it

5.  Mental health/solitary living - simply don't get to access a doctor

6.  Endstage disease - treatment failure

7. Patient apathy/conscious choice not to get help

 

How does it alter radiology

 

1.  Sometimes a big mass is hard to origin establish

2.  Harder to identify the involvement of adjacent structures

3.  More difficult to intervene.

4. Large number of secondary findings

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