Abstract:
This was a prospective analytical study to detect the incidental findings in
reporting rates and clinical importance of spinal findings that were
incidentally detected on the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) involved
50 patients (22 males, 28 females) carried out at period between February
2018 to February 2019 in Yastabshiroon medical center in Omdurman.
The result shown that most (56%) of participants were females, since
(44%) of them were males, (30%) of participants were more than 65
years old, since (22%) of them were 46-55 years and (20%) of them were
56-65 years, while (18%) of them were 36-45 years, whereas only (10%)
were 25-35 years old. Therefore, most of the participants were more than
45 years old. shown that the diagnoses for (36%) of participants was
hemangioma, since for (30%) of them was abscess, while for (18%) of
them was secondary collapse and for (10%) of them was traumatic
collapse, whereas for only (4%) of them was lesions and for only (2%) of
them was cyst.
The probability of hypothesis that differences in "diagnoses" are related
to gender is not supported and a diagnosis does not dependent on gender,
and age is not supported and diagnoses does not dependent on age.
Incidental findings were common, most were benign and awareness of
the prevalence of the incidental findings detected at MRI is helpful for
diagnosing lesions not related to symptoms.
