A Study of Incidental Findings among Patients with Lower Back Pain using MRI

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.