Table 3.
Nature of incidental diagnosis
| Type of incidental diagnosis | n (%) |
| Investigation for pre-existing condition | 65 (18) |
| Another malignancy | 34 (53) |
| Diabetes mellitus | 7 (11) |
| Hepatobiliary* | 5 (8) |
| AAA screening/post-aortic repair | 3 (5) |
| Other† | 16 (23) |
| Investigation for signs or symptoms unrelated to RCC | 258 (74) |
| Gastrointestinal‡ | 86 (33) |
| Urinary tract§ | 49 (19) |
| Hepatobiliary¶ | 27 (10) |
| Respiratory** | 20 (8) |
| Musculoskeletal†† | 16 (6) |
| Cardiovascular‡‡ | 11 (4) |
| Trauma | 7 (3) |
| Gynaecological | 6 (3) |
| Anaemia | 4 (2) |
| Miscellaneous§§ | 32 (12) |
| Routine health check¶¶ | 16 (5) |
| Not known*** | 12 (3) |
*Cirrhosis, primary biliary cirrhosis and sclerosing cholangitis.
†Includes Addison’s disease, chronic renal failure, Crohn’s disease, coeliac disease, ovarian cyst, renal stones, IgA nephropathy, Wegener’s granulomatosis, polymyalgia rheumatica and ovarian cyst.
‡Altered bowel habit, GI bleed, bloating/distension, abdominal pain and reflux.
§Urinary retention, prostatic symptoms, high prostate-specific antigen, urosepsis, renal colic and impaired renal function.
¶Biliary colic, deranged liver function tests, jaundice, pancreatitis and cholecystitis.
**Shortness of breath, cough, haemoptysis and pneumonia.
††Back pain, leg pain and joint pain.
‡‡Chest pain, myocardial infarction, claudication and endocarditis.
§§Includes dizziness, syncope, elevated blood test values and ankle swelling.
¶¶Initial investigations were urine dip (6), ultrasound scan (5), CT scan (2), blood tests (2) and chest x-ray (1).
***Insufficient information to classify.
AAA, abdominal aortic aneurysm; RCC, renal cell carcinoma.