A Partial List of Clinical Indications for Computed Tomography (CT)

Gastrointestinal
		Abdominal pain, with clinical suspicion of bowel obstruction

Acute abdominal pain and fever

Painless jaundice

Palpable abdominal mass

Acute right lower quadrant abdominal pain and fever, with clinical suspicion of appendicitis

		Acute left lower quadrant abdominal pain, with clinical suspicion of diverticulitis
		Pre-treatment staging of colorectal carcinoma

Chest
		Work-up of solitary pulmonary nodule on chest radiographs
		Screening for lung metastases
		Hemoptysis
		Dyspnea, with non-diagnostic clinical, plain radiographic, and laboratory work-up

Cardiovascular
		Acute chest pain, with clinical suspicion of pulmonary embolism
		Acute chest pain, with clinical suspicion of aortic dissection

Neurological
		Cerebrovascular disease, for clinically suspected subarachnoid hemorrhage
		Cerebrovascular disease, for a new focal neurological deficit
		Headache, worsening chronic
		Headache, sudden onset and severe
		Headache, chronic, with clinical suspicion of sinusitis

Genitourinary
		Flank pain, of acute onset, with clinical suspicion of calculus
		Adrenal mass, less than 3 centimeters in diameter, incidentally discovered
		Indeterminate renal mass

Musculoskeletal
		Clinically suspected mass of the abdominal wall or chest wall