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Incidental medical findings
Undiagnosed medical or psychiatric conditions discovered unintentionally during evaluation / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Incidental medical findings are previously undiagnosed medical or psychiatric conditions that are discovered unintentionally and during evaluation for a medical or psychiatric condition. Such findings may occur in a variety of settings, including routine medical care, during biomedical research,[1] during post-mortem autopsy,[2] or during genetic testing.[3]
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