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. 2021 Feb 19;15:631087. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2021.631087

TABLE 4.

Detection rate of each incidental finding.

Incidental findings
No referral necessary N = 577 (99.7%)
White matter hyperintensities 566(97.75%)
Brain atrophy 523(90.33%)
Enlarged perivascular space 490(84.63%)
Cerebral microbleeds 226(39.03%)
Paranasal sinusitis 196(33.85%)
Retention cysts of the maxillary sinus 33(5.70%)
Calvarial thickening 1(0.17%)
Mastoiditis 13(2.25%)
Routine referral N = 169 (29.2%)
Pineal cyst 4(0.69%)
Asymptomatic brain infarct 44(7.60%)
Falx cerebri ossification 10(1.73%)
Empty sella 55(9.50%)
Rathke’s cleft cyst 52(8.98%)
Hydrocephalus 1(0.17%)
Cysts of the septum pellucidum 7(1.21%)
Subdermal cyst 6(1.04%)
Enlarged cisterna magna 11(1.90%)
Urgent referral N = 50 (8.6%)
Venous malformation 14(2.42%)
Cavernous malformation 11(1.90%)
Meningioma 3(0.52%)
Osteoma 2(0.35%)
Arachnoid cyst 8(1.38%)
Bone cyst 2(0.35%)
Craniopharyngiomas 1(0.17%)
Pituitary adenoma 11(1.90%)
Metastasis 1(0.17%)
Chronic subdural hematoma 2(0.35%)

In many cases, there was more than one finding in a person. All diagnoses were based on imaging observations.