Detection of incidental pulmonary embolism with multi-slice computed tomography in cancer patients

Among one thousand oncology patients, 46 (4.6%) individuals found to have incidental PTE. Of positive patients, the highest proportion (24%) was belong to breast cancer group (n = 11). The most common location for pulmonary emboli was the lower lobe branch of right pulmonary artery (n = 33, 71.7%). Evident PTE had not been reported in final radiology reports of 21 cases.