Prevalence and outcomes of incidental imaging findings: umbrella review.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide an overview of the evidence on prevalence and outcomes of incidental imaging findings.

Design

Umbrella review of systematic reviews.

Data sources

Searches of MEDLINE, EMBASE up to August 2017; screening of references in included papers.

Eligibility criteria

Criteria included systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies that gave a prevalence of incidental abnormalities ("incidentalomas"). An incidental imaging finding was defined as an imaging abnormality in a healthy, asymptomatic patient or an imaging abnormality in a symptomatic patient, where the abnormality was not apparently related to the patient's symptoms. Primary studies that measured the prevalence of incidentalomas in patients with a history of malignancy were a

SUBMITTER: O'Sullivan JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6283350 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature