Federal regulations governing human subjects research do not address key questions raised by incidental neuroimaging findings, including the scope of a researcher's disclosure with respect to the possibility of incidental findings and the question whether a researcher has an affirmative legal cuty to seek, detect, and report incidental findings. The scope of researcher duties may, however, be m...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of patients with head, neck, and torso trauma frequently includes high-definition spiral computed tomography (SCT) scanning, which can reveal non-injury-related lesions. These incidental findings vary in their importance, from trivial lesions to findings that may have a greater impact on the health of the trauma patient than the injuries that led to the SCT. We evaluat...

CASE REPORT A 68-year-old female presented with a four week history of anorexia, tenesmus and pain on defaecation. There was no significant past medical history. On exam ination she was clinically anaemic and a 5cm diameter mobile mass was palpable in the right iliac fossa. Rectal examination and sigmoidoscopy were normal. Haemoglobin concentration was 10-8 g/dl. Serum iron and ferritin. concen...

The authenticity of the watermarked images under various incidental noise is considered in this paper. The watermark is generated using from the content invariant properties of the image and securely embedded in the selected higher textured blocks of the DCT transform of the image to make them robust to jpeg compression and incidental distortions. Response of the authenticator to watermarked im...

Background Left ventricular late gadolinium enhancement (LV-LGE) is a known incidental cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) finding in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients and has recently been associated with increased mortality [1]. While LV-LGE is an indicator of poor prognosis in patients with cardiomyopathy, data on the clinical significance of incidental findings of LV-LGE in AF patients is stil...

Introduction: Extraosseous accumulation of 99mTc – methylene diphosphonate (MDP) may be due to neoplastic, dystrophic, hormonal, inflammatory, ischemic, traumatic or excretory disorders. 99mTc-MDP incidental thyroid uptake is not frequent and is possibly caused by the presence of dystrophic or metastatic calcification, biopsy procedure and presence of beni...

Gallstones develop in approximately 10% to 15% of the US population and represent one of the most common and most costly of all digestive diseases. Studies investigating gallstones' natural history have shown that gallstone-related complications arise at a rate of approximately 1% per year in asymptomatic patients and 2% per year in patients who already have symptoms. Patients can have any of m...