| Abstrakt: |
Potentially clinically important incidental/unexpected extraspinal findings occur with sufficient frequency in cross-sectional imaging of the spine to warrant the radiologist’s careful consideration, regardless of whether the interpreter is a neuroradiologist, a musculoskeletal radiologist, an emergency radiologist, or a generalist. Awareness of the commonly encountered incidentalomas and the anatomy contained within the field of view of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine cross-sectional imaging examinations, respectively, will assist the radiologist in their efficient and accurate analysis. This chapter serves to familiarize radiologists with some of the potential relevant extraspinal findings which she or he may encounter, as well as to recommend an extraspinal search pattern for each spinal segment to increase the likelihood of detecting potentially important findings, and to also recognize findings which are not of clinical relevance. |
