IAME Announces Conference to Address Major Challenge to Radiology Practice
Summary
The rapidly growing capabilities of diagnostic imaging equipment are increasing the occurrence of incidental findings and present many clinical and medicolegal challenges for the physician, not to mention the patient.Irwin Kuperberg, president of IAME said, “This is an important event for radiologists and other imagers because it will allow them to confront and confidently manage the incidentaloma challenge.The faculty assembled for this symposium, led by Michael P. Federle, MD, FACR, includes members of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee and will discuss the most common incidentalomas encountered during interpretation of thoraco-abdominal CT and MR.Incidentaloma is a colloquial term used by radiologists to denote a mass or lesion encountered unexpectedly during exams performed for other reasons.The rapidly growing capabilities of diagnostic imaging equipment are increasing the occurrence of incidental findings and present many clinical and medicolegal challenges for the physician, not to mention the patient.IAME is one of the nation’s leading providers of continuing medical education (CME) in diagnostic imaging, offering innovative programs in anesthesiology, neurology, radiology, women’s health and cardiovascular medicine.