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

Table 3 Clinical demography of children with intracranial incidental findings on pediatric brain magnetic resonance imaging studies at pediatric specialty clinic other than neurology[16-21]

Ref.	Study-setting	Reason for MRI	No. of subject	No. of MRI (%)	Clinical demographics
					Mean age(range) year	Girls n (%) with MRI
Oh et al[16]	Endocrinology	Rathke’s cleft cysts	341	26 (76)	NA (4-18)	17 (65)
Rachmiel et al[17]	Endocrinology	Congenital hypothyroidism	682	30 (100)	12.5 (10-15)	16 (55)
Whitehead et al[18]	Radiology	Pineal cyst	100	100 (100)	6.8 (1 mo-17)	52 (52)
Mogensen et al[19]	Endocrinology	Early puberty	229	207 (100)3	NA (6-9)	207 (100)
Perret et al[20]	Oncology	Primary brain tumor4	335	335 (100)	7.6 (0-18)	132 (39)
Jordan et al[21]	Neurology research	Sickle cell disease	953	953 (100)	9.2 (5-15)	460 (48)

¹76% of patient with Rathke’s cleft cysts were discovered during evaluations for endocrine disorders;

²This includes 38 healthy boys 11.7 ± 1.7 years;

³22 (11%) patients who had computerized tomography of the brain due to contraindication of MRI are not included in this table;

⁴Central nervous system tumors were identified incidentally. MRI: Magnetic resonance imaging; NA: Not available.