Incidental findings on cervical spine computed tomography scans: overlooked and unimportant?

Imaging of the cervical spine for trauma or degenerative disease includes multiple areas of the head and neck that may harbor incidental findings. We sought to determine the incidence of common “incidentalomas” on cervical spine CT scans, their importance, and how often these lesions are mentioned in reports. We retrospectively reviewed the cervical spine CTs and reports of all patients scanned between October 2017 and January 2018 for Tornwaldt...