Incidental findings in sports imaging

Abstract

This narrative review presents a series of cases of less common incidental findings discovered on magnetic resonance imaging of elite athletes, who have presented for investigation of either muscle or joint sports-related injuries or for presigning imaging. The presented incidental findings include anatomical variants of osseous structures and muscles; incidental bone lesions; examples of systemic disease, and nonorthopedic findings found within the imaging field of view. This review will emphasize to the reader about the importance of interrogating the imaging in its entirety and avoiding the common pitfall of “satisfaction of search” within diagnostic radiology.