Editing Incidental imaging finding (section)

== Spinal ==
The increasing use of MRI, often during diagnostic work-up for back or lower extremity pain, has led to a significant increase in the number of incidental findings that are most often clinically inconsequential.  The most common include:<ref name="pmid21512084">{{cite journal  |vauthors=Park HJ, Jeon YH, Rho MH, etal |title=Incidental findings of the lumbar spine at MRI during herniated intervertebral disk disease evaluation |journal=AJR Am J Roentgenol |volume=196 |issue=5 |pages=1151–5 | date=May 2011 |pmid=21512084 |doi=10.2214/AJR.10.5457 }}</ref>
* [[vertebral hemangioma]]
* fibrolipoma (a [[lipoma]] with fibrous areas)
* [[Tarlov cyst]]

Sometimes normally asymptomatic findings can present with symptoms and these cases when identified cannot then be considered as incidentalomas.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}