Research Article
Incidental Findings on Cone Beam Computed Tomography Studies outside of the Maxillofacial Skeleton
Table 2
Frequency of incidental findings from 400 CBCT scans.
| General category of incidental findings | Number of incidental findings | Incidental findings (%) |
| Soft tissue | 194 | 29.71 | Thyroid/triticeous calcification | 106 | 16.24 | Tonsilloliths | 55 | 8.42 | Stylohyoid ligament/stylomandibular ligament | 33 | 5.05 | Intracranial | 176 | 26.96 | Pineal gland | 73 | 11.18 | Intracranial vascular calcification | 69 | 10.57 | Choroid plexus | 17 | 2.6 | Petroclinoid | 17 | 2.61 |
| Cervical vertebrae | 131 | 20.06 | Osteoarthritis | 107 | 16.38 | Lytic lesion | 2 | 0.31 | Vertebral misalignment (antero/posterolisthesis) | 6 | 0.91 | Fusion | 5 | 0.77 | Prior surgery | 2 | 0.31 | Suspected hemangioma/pneumatocysts | 9 | 1.38 |
| Airway | 75 | 11.49 | Narrowing of pharyngeal airway | 45 | 6.90 | Adenoidal hypertrophy | 23 | 3.52 | Asymmetry of pharyngeal airway | 7 | 1.07 |
| Other | ā | ā | Carotid artery calcification | 68 | 10.41 | Lymph node | 5 | 0.77 | Calcification in subcutaneous tissue | 1 | 0.15 | Calcific tendonitis of the longus colli muscle | 1 | 0.15 |
| Skull base | 2 | 0.3 | Post. comm. artery aneurysm | 1 | 0.15 | Suspected clivus lesion | 1 | 0.15 |
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