Spectrum of intracranial incidental findings on pediatric brain magnetic resonance imaging:What clinician should know?

作     者：Surya N Gupta Vikash S Gupta Andrew C White 

作者机构：Section of Child NeurologyChildren’s Hospital of IllinoisUniversity of Illinois College of Medicine Texila American University Department of General SurgeryUniversity of Colorado Hospital 

出 版 物：《World Journal of Clinical Pediatrics》 (世界临床儿科杂志)

年 卷 期：2016年第5卷第3期

页      面：262-272页

学科分类：0831[工学-生物医学工程（可授工学、理学、医学学位）] 100207[医学-影像医学与核医学] 1002[医学-临床医学] 08[工学] 1010[医学-医学技术（可授医学、理学学位）] 100204[医学-神经病学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Intracranial incidental finding Magnetic resonance imaging Children Common clinical profile Seizure Headache Developmental delay 

摘      要：Intracranial incidental findings on magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) of the brain continue to generate interest in healthy control,research,and clinical ***,in clinical practice,the discovery of incidental findings acts as a distractor.This review is based on existing heterogeneous reports,their clinical implications,and how the results of incidental findings influence clinical *** draws attention to the followings:(1) the prevalence of clinically significant incidental findings is low;(2) there is a lack of a systematic approach to classification;and discusses(3) how to deal with the detected incidental findings based a proposed common clinical *** neurological care requires an active discussion regarding the need for *** significance of incidental findings should be decided based on lesion s neuroradiologic characteristics in the given clinical *** evidence suggests that the outcome of an incidentally found serious lesion in children is *** studies of intracranial incidental findings on pediatric brain MRI should be focused on a homogeneous *** study should address this clinical knowledge based review powered by the statistical analyses.