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Ct scan results dr said pictures weren't very good. wants me to get an nuclear stress test. would it be feasible to ask for another ct scan?

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Dr. Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay answered

Specializes in Hospital-based practice

Unadvised but possib: Getting another CT scan is 99% likely to give the same picture as the 1st, barring an obvious problem (like the machine broke down, which they would have informed you at the site). Not sure what the nuclear stress test (cardiac?) or the CT scan (brain?) was for, but at this point, another modality is more likely to provide information than repeating the same test. CT scans involve lots of radiatio

Answered 11/12/2015

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