Research Article
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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