Spectrum of intracranial incidental findings on pediatric brain magnetic resonance imaging: What clinician should know?

Table 2 Clinical demography of intracranial incidental findings on pediatric brain magnetic resonance imaging evaluated at general neurology clinic and at research center[5-15]

Ref.	Clinical demographics					Girls n (%) with MRI
	Study- setting	Reason for MRI	No. ofsubject	No. ofMRI (%)	Mean age(range) year
Yilmaz et al[5]	Pediatric neurology	Head pain	449	288 (64)1	11.2 (NA)	189 (58)
Bayram et al[6]			941	527 (61)2	12.1 (4-16)	NA
Graf et al[7]			400	91 (23)2	10.8 (3-18)	NA
Schwedt et al[8]			681	218 (32)2	12.1 (2-18)3	126 (52)
Koirala[9]	Pediatric and adult neurology	Seizure	36c	36 (100)3	NA (1-16)	NA
Kalnin et al[10]	Radiology		349	281 (81)	9.7 (6-14)	143 (51)
Gupta et al[11]	Pediatric neurology	Developmental delay	2185	771 (35)	7.6 (NA )	433 (56)
Gupta et al[13]		General	1618	666 (41)	9.8 (0-21)	280 (42)
Seki et al[12]	Research Institute	Healthy children	395	89 (25)1	NA (5-8)	53 (44)
Kim et al[15]	Radiology		225	198 (88)1	11.2 (1 mo-18)	126 (56)
	Research
Potchen et al[14]		Community-based	102	68 (71)1	12.1 (9-14)	54 (55)

¹The MRI revealing extracranial incidental findings were excluded;

²Children with computerized tomography of the brain were excluded;

³Only pediatric patients are presented in Table. MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; NA: Not available.