TABLE 4.
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.