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## Purpose: This study aimed to determine the prevalence, importance, and types of incidental findings (if) in non-enhanced ct scans performed for suspected renal colic, based on acr white papers and other accepted radiographic recommendations. ## Methods: Retrospective review of 5,383 consecutive finalized reports of nonenhanced ct using renal colic protocol performed on adult patients at 2 emergency departments over a 5.5-year period. if were defined as those unrelated to symptoms (as opposed to alternate causes of symptoms) and were categorized as "important" if follow-up was recommended based on recently published consensus recommendations. subsets of reports of those with important if were blindly re-reviewed to calculate inter-rater variability for presence and categorization of important if. ## Results: Important if were identified in 12.7% (95% confidence interval [ci]: 11.8%-13.6%) of scans. prevalence of important if increased with age: important if in individuals age >80 years were 4 times more common than for those aged 18-30 years: 28.9% (95% ci: 22.4%-36.4%) versus 6.9% (95% ci: 5.5%-8.6%), respectively, p ≤ .05. women had a higher prevalence of important if compared

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Author

Mohammad Samim; Sarah Goss; Seth Luty; Jeffrey Weinreb; Christopher Moore

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 1546-1440)

Published

2015

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)