Incidental Findings on Cone Beam Computed Tomography Studies outside of the Maxillofacial Skeleton

Table 3

Clinical significance of the incidental findings.

General category of incidental findings	Incidental findings	Number of incidental findings (%)
(I) Referral		205 (31.39)
Carotid atherosclerosis	Intracranial vascular calcification	69 (10.57)
	Extracranial vascular calcification	68 (10.41)
Airway issues	Narrowing of pharyngeal airway	45 (6.90)
	Asymmetry of pharyngeal airway	7 (1.07)
Cervical vertebral lesions	Vertebral malalignment (antero/posterolisthesis)	6 (0.91)
	Fusion	5 (0.77)
	Lytic lesion	2 (0.31)
Skull base	Suspected chordoma	1 (0.15)
	PCA Aneurysm	1 (0.15)
Longus colli muscle	Calcific tendonitis of the longus colli muscle	1 (0.15)
(II) Monitoring or follow-up		116 (17.76)
Cervical vertebrae	Osteoarthritis	107 (16.38)
	Pneumatocyst/hemangiomas	9 (1.38)
(III) No referral or monitoring		332 (50.85)
Soft tissue calcifications	Thyroid/triticeous calcification	106 (16.24)
	Tonsillitis	55 (8.42)
	Stylohyoid/stylomandibular ligament calcification	33 (5.05)
Airway issues	Adenoidal hyperplasia	23 (3.52)
Intracranial findings	Pineal gland calcification	73 (11.18)
	Petroclinoid calcification	17 (2.61)
	Choroid plexus calcification	17 (2.6)
Cervical vertebrae	Prior surgery	2 (0.31)
Lymph node	Lymph node calcification	5 (0.77)
Subcutaneous tissue	Calcification in subcutaneous tissue	1 (0.15)

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