Incidentalomas: How Brain MRI Can Complicate Migraine Management

Incidentalomas: findings that are unrelated to the patient’s headache disorder and in most cases have no clinical significance

Such is the misery migraine can inflict that patients understandably become convinced that “there must be something wrong with my brain.” When seeking help from a healthcare provider, some migraine patients feel their evaluation is incomplete if a brain imaging study is not performed. Why are you short-changing me? they wonder. Not infrequently, some ma…