The hospital outpatient radiology department
A 59-year-old female is referred by her primary care physician to the hospital outpatient radiology department with an order for a CT scan of the abdomen. The patient has been complaining of generalized abdominal pain, fatigue, and nausea but no vomiting over the past several weeks. Previous gastrointestinal imaging studies, including an ultrasound, were abnormal. The physician’s diagnosis on the order is "abnormal radiology findings of GI tract, require further definition by CT exam, generalized abdominal pain, fatigue, nausea, rule out abdominal malignancy." First-Listed Diagnosis: Secondary Diagnoses:
