Incidental Medical Findings

What to do about incidental findings - Harvard Health

https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/what-to-do-about-incidental-findings

Modern medical imaging saves lives: it can find a blocked artery, a bulging blood vessel, or a suspicious mass. But many times, an x-ray, CT scan, MRI scan, or ultrasound exam looking for one kind of problem can reveal an anomaly that's unrelated …

Incidental Findings | American College of …

https://www.acr.org/Clinical-Resources/Incidental-Findings

An incidental finding, also known as an incidentaloma, may be defined as “an incidentally discovered mass or lesion, detected by CT, MRI, or other imaging modality performed for an unrelated …

Incidental medical findings - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incidental_medical_findings

When To Report an Incidental Finding - AAPC …

https://www.aapc.com/blog/83547-when-to-report-an-incidental-finding/

Incidental findings should never be listed as primary diagnoses. If reported, incidental findings may be reported as secondary diagnoses by the physician …

Managing Incidental Findings - Applied Radiology

https://appliedradiology.com/articles/managing-incidental-findings

An incidental finding, also referred to as an incidentaloma, is a mass or lesion detected on diagnostic imaging studies performed for an unrelated reason. 1 For …

Attachment F - Recommendations on Reporting …

https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/sachrp-committee/recommendations/attachment-f-august-2-2017/index.html

While most incidental findings will be discovered during clinical research, be medical in nature and have potential effect on the subject’s health, such as those just …

Incidental Medical Findings: an Unexpected Gift

https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/incidental-medical-findings-an-unexpected-gift

Once enough growth has occurred, symptoms can include hematuria or blood that's present in the urine, low back pain and lower body swelling. But what about when a kidney …

ACMG Recommendations for Reporting of Incidental …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/clinvar/docs/acmg/

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics has published recommendations for reporting incidental findings in clinical exome and genome …

Medicine's Problem of 'Incidental Findings' - The Atlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/medicines-problem-of-incidental-findings/282294/

Incidental findings are medical results that you weren't looking for. The x-ray done for lower back pain that uncovers a spot on the liver. The urinalysis done to rule …

What Is an Incidental Finding? – Radiology In Plain English

https://radiologyinplainenglish.com/what-is-an-incidental-finding/

An incidental finding is a lesion discovered on an imaging test that is unrelated to the reason for the exam. Incidental findings can be found on any imaging …