Yi Li, Wesley K Thompson, Chase Reuter, Ryan Nillo, Terry Jernigan, Anders Dale, Leo P Sugrue, Julian Brown, Robert F Dougherty, Andreas Rauschecker, Jeffrey Rudie, Deanna M Barch, Vince Calhoun, Donald Hagler, Sean Hatton, Jody Tanabe, Andrew Marshall, Kenneth J Sher, Steven Heeringa, Robert Hermosillo, Marie T Banich, Lindsay Squeglia, James Bjork, Robert Zucker, Michael Neale, Megan Herting, Chandni Sheth, Rebeka Huber, Gloria Reeves, John M Hettema, Katia Delrahim Howlett, Christine Cloak, Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Kristina Rapuano, Raul Gonzalez, Nicole Karcher, Angela Laird, Fiona Baker, Regina James, Elizabeth Sowell, Anthony Dick, Samuel Hawes, Matthew Sutherland, Kara Bagot, Jerzy Bodurka, Florence Breslin, Amanda Morris, Martin Paulus, Kevin Gray, Elizabeth Hoffman, Susan Weiss, Nishadi Rajapakse, Meyer Glantz, Bonnie Nagel, Sarah Feldstein Ewing, Aimee Goldstone, Adolf Pfefferbaum, Devin Prouty, Monica Rosenberg, Susan Bookheimer, Susan Tapert, Maria Infante, Joanna Jacobus, Jay Giedd, Paul Shilling, Natasha Wade, Kristina Uban, Frank Haist, Charles Heyser, Clare Palmer, Joshua Kuperman, John Hewitt, Linda Cottler, Amal Isaiah, Linda Chang, Sarah Edwards, Thomas Ernst, Mary Heitzeg, Leon Puttler, Chandra Sripada, William Iacono, Monica Luciana, Duncan Clark, Beatriz Luna, Claudiu Schirda, John Foxe, Edward Freedman, Michael Mason, Erin McGlade, Perry Renshaw, Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, Matthew Albaugh, Nicholas Allgaier, Bader Chaarani, Alexandra Potter, Masha Ivanova, Krista Lisdahl, Elizabeth Do, Hermine Maes, Ryan Bogdan, Andrey Anokhin, Nico Dosenbach, Paul Glaser, Andrew Heath, Betty J Casey, Dylan Gee, Hugh P Garavan, Gaya Dowling, Sandra Brown
Importance: Incidental findings (IFs) are unexpected abnormalities discovered during imaging and can range from normal anatomic variants to findings requiring urgent medical intervention. In the case of brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), reliable data about the prevalence and significance of IFs in the general population are limited, making it difficult to anticipate, communicate, and manage these findings. Objectives: To determine the overall prevalence of IFs in brain MRI in the nonclinical pediatric population as well as the rates of specific findings and findings for which clinical referral is recommended...
March 22, 2021: JAMA Neurology