J MWardlaw professor of applied neuroimaging and honorary consultant neuroradiologist, H Davies research ethics adviser , T C Booth consultant neuroradiologist , G Laurie professor of medical jurisprudence, A Compston professor of neurology, C Freeman professor of psychiatry and clinical lead for accreditation , M O Leach professor of physics as applied to medicine , A D Waldman consultant neur...

Of 3000 consecutive computed tomography (CT) head scans there were 28 adult patients who had a focal intracranial lesion, who presented with nonspecific symptoms, and who had normal initial neurological examination. These lesions included cerebral infarction (8), focal atrophy (5), intracerebral haematoma (3), chronic subdural haematoma (3), focal calcification (3) and intracranial neoplasm (6)...

INTRODUCTION We aimed to evaluate pathological extraspinal findings and congenital anomalies/anatomical variations that were incidentally detected on the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of intervertebral discs, to find the frequencies of these incidental findings, and to emphasise the clinical importance of them. MATERIAL AND METHODS A retrospective study including 1031 consecutive pat...