I've just had a letter from a consultant haematologist to say that as
the patient has been on steroids for 18 months, and he has failed to get
him off without his relapsing, he is ordering a Dexscan. :-)
In article <[log in to unmask]>, Mary Hawking
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>I've taken to getting a DEXA scan - one (male) patient had a forearm
>bone densitometry T=-6 (*not* a typing error!)
>Next problem is, *whose* responsibility? *I* didn't put him on long term
>steroids.. and I haven't noticed many hospital consultants ordering bone
>densitometry!
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Chris Pearson
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