TY  - JOUR
T1  - Overdiagnosis of disease: A modern epidemic
AU  - Hoffman JR, Cooper RJ
Y1  - 2012/08/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3319
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1123
EP  - 1124
VL  - 172
IS  - 15
N2  - 
Most of us learned that brain herniation is about as close to death as a living patient can get. But a clinically important proportion of patients with head computed tomography (CT)-defined herniation are awake and alert (personal communication, Kelli O’Laughlin, MD, MPH, December 1, 2011).1- 2 Is herniation far less grave than we have always thought? Does this mean that we need to order even more CT scans so as not to miss “occult” herniation in normal-appearing patients?

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3319
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2012.3319
ER  -