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Q: Misdiagnosis?
asked by: ghidora on April 26th, 2004
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Duringa weekend vacation out of state, my husband had an attack of severe abdominal pain in the middle of the night. This was after eating a pretty grissley piece of prime rib. I took him to a local hospital emergency room at 3:30 am. He was in a lot of pain and it took a lot of pain medicine to kill the pain. He is a big guy, but very fit - not obese. They took some x-rays during which he lost the prime rib meal. They also took a contrast ct scan and did a blood work up. The x-ray showed what they thought might be an intestinal blockage. The blood work, however, was normal. Here's the kicker, the ct scan came back indicating a "massive retroperitoneal mass likely due to adenopathy" and likley representing non-hodkins lymphoma!. My husband has had not symptoms what so ever before and is a very active and healthy individual. The mass was stated to be 16 x 12 x 10 cm! That's about the size of a can of pop! Just how accurate are ct scans? Wouldn't he have some kind of symptoms if he had a mass that big? His family does have a history of cancer, but this sounds like misdiagnosis to me. On the ride home after he was able to pass some gas, he felt fine. He has not had a reoccurrance of the pain. I'm devistated. We are going for a second opinion tomorrow, but we cut our weekend short and I feel like i've been kicked in the gut. Do er doctors make these kind of mistakes?
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lf777
replied on September 28th, 2004
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Hi

a mass of that size in the location that you described may certainly be a lymphoma. But I have seen people with masses of that size without symptoms of pain and obstruction. Make sure you take the actual films of the ct scan to the new doctor for him to interpret, as the report does not give that much information.

Good luck
leo
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