Incidental Findings

"Incidental Findings" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Unanticipated information discovered in the course of testing or medical care. Used in discussions of information that may have social or psychological consequences, such as when it is learned that a child's biological father is someone other than the putative father, or that a person tested for one disease or disorder has, or is at risk for, something else.

Descriptor ID	D033162
MeSH Number(s)	E01.410
Concept/Terms	Incidental Findings Incidental Findings Finding, Incidental Findings, Incidental Incidental Finding Incidental Discovery Incidental Discovery Discoveries, Incidental Discovery, Incidental Incidental Discoveries

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Diagnosis [E01]
Incidental Findings [E01.410]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2006	1	1	2
2007	0	1	1
2008	1	0	1
2010	0	1	1
2011	1	2	3
2013	0	1	1
2021	0	1	1

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Li Y, Thompson WK, Reuter C, Nillo R, Jernigan T, Dale A, Sugrue LP, Brown J, Dougherty RF, Rauschecker A, Rudie J, Barch DM, Calhoun V, Hagler D, Hatton S, Tanabe J, Marshall A, Sher KJ, Heeringa S, Hermosillo R, Banich MT, Squeglia L, Bjork J, Zucker R, Neale M, Herting M, Sheth C, Huber R, Reeves G, Hettema JM, Howlett KD, Cloak C, Baskin-Sommers A, Rapuano K, Gonzalez R, Karcher N, Laird A, Baker F, James R, Sowell E, Dick A, Hawes S, Sutherland M, Bagot K, Bodurka J, Breslin F, Morris A, Paulus M, Gray K, Hoffman E, Weiss S, Rajapakse N, Glantz M, Nagel B, Ewing SF, Goldstone A, Pfefferbaum A, Prouty D, Rosenberg M, Bookheimer S, Tapert S, Infante M, Jacobus J, Giedd J, Shilling P, Wade N, Uban K, Haist F, Heyser C, Palmer C, Kuperman J, Hewitt J, Cottler L, Isaiah A, Chang L, Edwards S, Ernst T, Heitzeg M, Puttler L, Sripada C, Iacono W, Luciana M, Clark D, Luna B, Schirda C, Foxe J, Freedman E, Mason M, McGlade E, Renshaw P, Yurgelun-Todd D, Albaugh M, Allgaier N, Chaarani B, Potter A, Ivanova M, Lisdahl K, Do E, Maes H, Bogdan R, Anokhin A, Dosenbach N, Glaser P, Heath A, Casey BJ, Gee D, Garavan HP, Dowling G, Brown S. Rates of Incidental Findings in Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Children. JAMA Neurol. 2021 05 01; 78(5):578-587.

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Seo SG, Sung KH, Chung CY, Lee KM, Lee SY, Choi Y, Kim TG, Baek JK, Kwon SS, Kwon DG, Choi IH, Cho TJ, Yoo WJ, Park MS. Incidental findings on knee radiographs in children and adolescents. Clin Orthop Surg. 2014 Sep; 6(3):305-11.

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Alsidawi S, Abdalla M, Arif I, L?pez-Candales A. Congenital anastomosis between left anterior mammary and pulmonary vasculatures. Am J Med Sci. 2013 Feb; 345(2):158-9.

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Stewart T, Engelthaler DM, Blaney DD, Tuanyok A, Wangsness E, Smith TL, Pearson T, Komatsu KK, Keim P, Currie BJ, Levy C, Sunenshine R. Epidemiology and investigation of melioidosis, Southern Arizona. Emerg Infect Dis. 2011 Jul; 17(7):1286-8.

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Pickhardt PJ, Boyce CJ, Kim DH, Hinshaw LJ, Taylor AJ, Winter TC. Should small sliding hiatal hernias be reported at CT colonography? AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2011 Apr; 196(4):W400-4.

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Megibow AJ, Baker ME, Gore RM, Taylor A. The incidental pancreatic cyst. Radiol Clin North Am. 2011 Mar; 49(2):349-59.

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Berland LL, Silverman SG, Gore RM, Mayo-Smith WW, Megibow AJ, Yee J, Brink JA, Baker ME, Federle MP, Foley WD, Francis IR, Herts BR, Israel GM, Krinsky G, Platt JF, Shuman WP, Taylor AJ. Managing incidental findings on abdominal CT: white paper of the ACR incidental findings committee. J Am Coll Radiol. 2010 Oct; 7(10):754-73.

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Pickhardt PJ, Hanson ME, Vanness DJ, Lo JY, Kim DH, Taylor AJ, Winter TC, Hinshaw JL. Unsuspected extracolonic findings at screening CT colonography: clinical and economic impact. Radiology. 2008 Oct; 249(1):151-9.

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Pickhardt PJ, Kim DH, Taylor AJ, Gopal DV, Weber SM, Heise CP. Extracolonic tumors of the gastrointestinal tract detected incidentally at screening CT colonography. Dis Colon Rectum. 2007 Jan; 50(1):56-63.

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Ferr?ndez A, Pho L, Solomon C, Samowitz WS, Kuwada SK, Knecht TP, Gilfeather M, Burt RW. An evidence-based, multidisciplinary approach to the clinical considerations, management, and surveillance of adrenal lesions in familial adenomatous polyposis: report of three cases. Dis Colon Rectum. 2006 Nov; 49(11):1781-90.

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