TOPLINE:

In symptomatic patients undergoing MRI of the hand or wrist, about 23% of scans had one or more incidental anomalies, and only about 3% overall needed further workup, a study found. The risk for incidentalomas was lower than that in solid organs, increased with patient age and trainee reporting, but decreased when intravenous contrast was used.

METHODOLOGY:

Researchers conducted a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 2138 symptomatic patients (mean age, 36.6 years) undergoing the first MRI scan of the hand or wrist between 2007 and 2021 at a single tertiary care centre in the UK.

Data collection involved verbatim extraction from radiology reports.

The primary objective was to identify the risk for incidental findings, defined as any clinically relevant abnormality that w

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