Incidence and frequency of nondental incidental findings on cone-beam computed tomography

Togan, Benjamin; Gander, Thomas; Lanzer, Martin; Rücker, Martin; Lübbers, Heinz-Theo

doi:10.1016/j.jcms.2016.06.026

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“…The third most frequent finding was a deviated septum, occurring on the right side in 24.6% of patients and on the left side in 18.3%. This result is similar to that described in the literature, which varies from 50% [17] to 83.2% of patients with a deviated septum developed sinusitis or some evidence of sinus mucosal thickening, on the right and left side, respectively [18]. This is especially important, since the diagnosis of sinus inflammation may be a constraining factor for implant installation.…”

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Evaluation of Incidental Findings on Cone Beam Computed Tomography

Oliveira

Peretto

Panzarella

et al. 2019

Pesqui. bras. odontopediatria clín. integr.

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Objective: To assess the prevalence of incidental findings in relation to the side of a patient's face, location, and age group on cone beam computed tomography. Material and Methods: 175 CBCT examinations were performed on patients aged between 12 and 77 years, consisting of recordings of the anatomical location and findings following each examination. For standardization of tomographic evaluations, acquired images were analyzed by two previously trained expert radiologists. After positional adjustment of the multi-dimensional images on the monitor screen, examination of each scan was conducted simultaneously on the coronal, axial, and sagittal planes. Fisher's exact tests and Chi-square tests were used to compare the frequencies of incidental findings using a significance level of 0.05. Results: The most frequent incidental finding was maxillary sinus mucosal thickening, which occurred on the right and left side in 46.3% and 46.9% of the patients, respectively. The second most frequent incidental finding was flattening of the mandibular condyle, occurring on the right and left side in 29.7% and 24% of the patients, respectively. No significant difference was observed among the individual age groups. The number of incidental findings per patient varied from 0 to 5 on the right side and left side and from 0 to 12 in total. The Kendall correlation coefficient for the number of incidental findings between the sides was 0.25 (p<0.0001), indicating a weak but significant and positive association between the sides in relation to the number of incidental findings. The mean total number of incidental findings was 4.07. Conclusion: The prevalence of the individual incidental findings and the total number of findings were not statistically different. However, some alterations were more likely to be observed bilaterally.

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“…When planning dental or orthodontic mini-implants, it is important to identify and treat the factors involved. A procedure can be performed safely only after resolution of the pathological condition [17].…”

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Evaluation of Incidental Findings on Cone Beam Computed Tomography

Oliveira

Peretto

Panzarella

et al. 2019

Pesqui. bras. odontopediatria clín. integr.

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“…Indeed, much of the information on calcifications in the head and neck comes from studies that investigated the presence of incidental findings during clinical imaging for various conditions (Lopes et al., ; Pette et al., ; Price et al., ). Thus, some of them did include, for instance, intracranial calcifications in their prevalence data (Pette et al., ; Price et al., ; Rheem, Nielsen, & Oberoi, ), while others did not consider all types of calcifications found in the maxillofacial region (Togan, Gander, Lanzer, Martin, & Lübbers, ) or at least did not detail whether they were included in the evaluation (Lopes et al., ; Pette et al., ; Price et al., ; Rheem et al., ).…”

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“…Also, when different FOVs are used, one should bear in mind that FOVs with different sizes and coverage areas may have different distributions according to the sex or age of the scanned subjects. Therefore, if this particular aspect is not disclosed (Togan et al., ), the statistical association between incidental findings/calcifications and the demographic data may be biased. For these reasons, we decided to assess any associations among the prevalence of calcifications and the sex and age of the subjects only with scans that included both the maxilla and the mandible.…”

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Prevalence of soft tissue calcifications in the maxillofacial region detected by cone beam CT

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“…Incidental findings and anatomical variations [1] should be of interest for dentists using CBCT in daily practice [2,3]. Multiple retrospective studies on incidental findings on CBCT [4,5] were already performed on diverse human populations such as in Germany (1029 CBCT) [6], United States (between 200 and 1000 CBCT depending of a study) [7][8][9][10][11], Canada (427 CBCT [12] and 7689 CBCT specifically about clivus and cervical spine [13]), Brazil (150 CBCT) [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14], Switzerland (999 CBCT) [15], India (201 CBCT of maxillary sinus) [16], Iran (198 CBCT of maxillary sinuses) [17], Turkey (207 CBCT) [18], and South Korea (500 CBCT) [19].…”

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Accessibility to the knowledge on anatomical variations from dentomaxillofacial CBCT

Olszewski¹,

Hebda

2020

Nemesis

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Objective: to investigate the accessibility of open access article on anatomical variations described on cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) using PubMed database. We wanted to investigate how many journals are sharing articles without pay-wall and how many are sharing articles without author publication charges. Material and methods: a search equation was designed with exclusion criteria limiting the search in PubMed to articles published in English and French. The search was performed by one observer. We had found 2228 articles; among them 709 were accessible as ‘full text’. After applying exclusion criteria and after full text reading only 50 articles remained for the review. Results: the 50 selected articles shared 306 annotated (visual marking, explanation like arrows) and 432 not annotated figures with the public. The 76% of articles were single studies on one specific topic. The main topic was endodontics with 22 articles. 28 journals from all continents participated in the effort of sharing of figures on anatomical variations from CBCT. However, only 2 journals were completely free of charges for authors and readers. Conclusions: we have found only 15 annotated and 3 not annotated figures in 2 articles published in 2 different open access journals (without reader pay-wall and without author publication charges). Sharing the knowledge on anatomical variations from dentomaxillofacial CBCT represents an exception in dental literature.

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Incidence and frequency of nondental incidental findings on cone-beam computed tomography

Cited by 28 publications

References 32 publications

Evaluation of Incidental Findings on Cone Beam Computed Tomography

Evaluation of Incidental Findings on Cone Beam Computed Tomography

Prevalence of soft tissue calcifications in the maxillofacial region detected by cone beam CT

Accessibility to the knowledge on anatomical variations from dentomaxillofacial CBCT

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