Incidental Findings

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Common Cause of Cranial Nerve VI Palsy-Hidden in Plain Sight: A Teachable Moment. 
  • ASH evidence-based guidelines: should asymptomatic patients with antiphospholipid antibodies receive primary prophylaxis to prevent thrombosis? 
  • Adolescent Development of Cortical and White Matter Structure in the NCANDA Sample: Role of Sex, Ethnicity, Puberty, and Alcohol Drinking. 
  • Adrenal Imaging and Intervention. 
  • American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics: standards and guidelines for documenting suspected consanguinity as an incidental finding of genomic testing. 
  • An exponential growth in incidence of thyroid cancer: trends and impact of CT imaging. 
  • Better off not knowing: improving clinical care by limiting physician access to unsolicited diagnostic information. 
  • Carcinoid tumors of the appendix: are these tumors identifiable prospectively on preoperative CT? 
  • Cardiovascular findings on cross-sectional imaging: spectrum of incidental and critical findings and clinical relevance for the abdominal radiologist. 
  • Characterization of Incidental Renal Mass With Dual-Energy CT: Diagnostic Accuracy of Effective Atomic Number Maps for Discriminating Nonenhancing Cysts From Enhancing Masses. 
  • Characterization of Small Incidental Indeterminate Hypoattenuating Hepatic Lesions: Added Value of Single-Phase Contrast-Enhanced Dual-Energy CT Material Attenuation Analysis. 
  • Characterization of adrenal nodules with dual-energy CT: can virtual unenhanced attenuation values replace true unenhanced attenuation values? 
  • Computed tomography colonography: colon examination or Pandora's box. 
  • Considering the Benefits and Risks of Research Participants' Access to Sequence Data. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of follow-up of pulmonary nodules incidentally detected on cardiac computed tomographic angiography in patients with suspected coronary artery disease. 
  • Developing a complex intervention for the outpatient management of incidentally diagnosed pulmonary embolism in cancer patients. 
  • Dual-energy multidetector CT for the characterization of incidental adrenal nodules: diagnostic performance of contrast-enhanced material density analysis. 
  • Effect of Direct Marketing for Uterine Artery Embolization on Rates of Leiomyomas, Incidental Findings, and Management After Pelvic MRI. 
  • Effective Radiology Reporting. 
  • Emerging Considerations for Noninvasive Prenatal Testing. 
  • Endovascular Repair of Blunt Thoracic Aortic Trauma: Is Postimplant Hypertension an Incidental Finding? 
  • Ethics and Collateral Findings in Pragmatic Clinical Trials. 
  • Extrabiliary and extrapancreatic incidental findings on magnetic resonance cholangio-pancreatography: a single centre experience in 1000 patients. 
  • Extracardiac findings: what is a cardiologist to do? 
  • Extrapulmonary Findings and Malignancies in Participants Screened With Chest CT in the National Lung Screening Trial. 
  • False-Positive Pancreatic Uptake Detected on 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT: A Priority Changing Incidental Finding While Assessing the Need for a Prostate Biopsy. 
  • Follow-up recommendations for chest CT scan reports of incidental pulmonary nodules. 
  • Giant cell aortitis mimicking intramural hematoma. 
  • Guidelines for Management of Incidental Pulmonary Nodules Detected on CT Images: From the Fleischner Society 2017. 
  • High variability in radiologists' reporting practices for incidental thyroid nodules detected on CT and MRI. 
  • How are childhood thyroid nodules discovered: opportunities for improving early detection. 
  • Imaging the oesophagus after penetrating cervical trauma using water-soluble contrast alone: simple, cost-effective and accurate. 
  • Imaging-detected incidental thyroid nodules that undergo surgery: a single-center experience over 1 year. 
  • Immediate laparoscopic adrenalectomy versus observation: cost evaluation for incidental adrenal lesions with atypical imaging characteristics. 
  • Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening in the Veterans Health Administration. 
  • Incident sexually transmitted infection as a biomarker for high-risk sexual behavior after diagnosis of acute HIV. 
  • Incidental Cold Agglutinins in Cardiac Surgery: Intraoperative Surprises and Team-Based Problem-Solving Strategies During Cardiopulmonary Bypass. 
  • Incidental Findings on Imaging: Omit or Provide Recommendations. 
  • Incidental Squamous Cell Carcinoma In Situ in a Large Pharyngoesophageal (Zenker's) Diverticulum. 
  • Incidental Thyroid Nodules at Non-FDG PET Nuclear Medicine Imaging: Evaluation of Prevalence and Malignancy Rate. 
  • Incidental Thyroid Nodules on CT or MRI: Discordance Between What We Report and What Receives Workup. 
  • Incidental aneurysms in temporal lobe epilepsy surgery: report of three cases and a review of the literature. 
  • Incidental detection of nutcracker phenomenon on multidetector CT in an asymptomatic population: prevalence and associated findings. 
  • Incidental extracardiac findings at coronary CT: clinical and economic impact. 
  • Incidental finding of persistent left superior vena cava after 'bubble study' verification of central venous catheter. 
  • Incidental findings on brain magnetic resonance imaging of children with sickle cell disease. 
  • Incidental findings on cardiac computed tomography in incident hemodialysis patients: the predictors of arrhythmic and cardiovascular events in end-stage renal disease (PACE) study. 
  • Incidental findings on cardiac multidetector row computed tomography among healthy older adults: prevalence and clinical correlates. 
  • Incidental pulmonary nodules on cardiac computed tomography: prognosis and use. 
  • Incidental thyroid nodules on CT: evaluation of 2 risk-categorization methods for work-up of nodules. 
  • Incidentally identified genetic variants in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy-associated genes among children undergoing exome sequencing reflect healthy population variation. 
  • Intraoperative diagnosis and management of patent foramen ovale. 
  • Is port site resection necessary in the surgical management of gallbladder cancer? 
  • Journal Club: incidental thyroid nodules detected at imaging: can diagnostic workup be reduced by use of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound recommendations and the three-tiered system? 
  • Laparoscopic adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma. A comparison to aldosteronoma and incidentaloma. 
  • Left Atrial Appendage Thrombus and Embolic Stroke. 
  • Life-threatening asymptomatic incidentaloma: a case report of idiopathic CD4 lymphocytopenia and opportunistic infections. 
  • Management of Incidental Pituitary Findings on CT, MRI, and 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PET: A White Paper of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee. 
  • Management of incidental cavernous malformations: a review. 
  • Management of incidental ovarian tumors in patients undergoing gastric bypass. 
  • Management of incidentally discovered intracranial vascular abnormalities. 
  • Managing Incidental Findings on Thoracic CT: Mediastinal and Cardiovascular Findings. A White Paper of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee. 
  • Managing incidental findings and research results in genomic research involving biobanks and archived data sets. 
  • Managing incidental genomic findings in clinical trials: fulfillment of the principle of justice. 
  • Managing incidental genomic findings: legal obligations of clinicians. 
  • Managing incidental thyroid nodules detected on imaging: white paper of the ACR Incidental Thyroid Findings Committee. 
  • Managing intracranial incidental findings suggestive of low-grade glioma: learning from experience. 
  • Micropapillary thyroid carcinoma and concomitant ectopic thyroid tissue in the adrenal gland: metastasis or metaplasia? 
  • Misinterpretation of the American College of Radiology white paper on managing incidental thyroid nodules. 
  • Multiple myeloma diagnosed secondary to analysis of a lytic bone lesion encountered during Mohs micrographic surgery. 
  • Mycotic Saccular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm in an Infant after Cardiac Catheterization: A Case Report. 
  • Navigating Uncertainty in the Management of Incidental Findings. 
  • Operative resection is currently overutilized for cystic lesions of the pancreas. 
  • Pheochromocytoma presenting as fever of unknown origin. 
  • Population-based biobank participants' preferences for receiving genetic test results. 
  • Practical considerations in the clinical application of whole-exome sequencing. 
  • Predicting Residual Disease in Incidental Gallbladder Cancer: Risk Stratification for Modified Treatment Strategies. 
  • Prevalence and repair of intraoperatively diagnosed patent foramen ovale and association with perioperative outcomes and long-term survival. 
  • Professional perspectives about pharmacogenetic testing and managing ancillary findings. 
  • Prophylactic appendectomy: unnecessary in children with incidental appendicoliths detected by computed tomographic scan. 
  • Public perspectives about pharmacogenetic testing and managing ancillary findings. 
  • Radiology reports for incidental thyroid nodules on CT and MRI: high variability across subspecialties. 
  • Re: "Management of Incidental Pancreatic Cysts: A White Paper of the ACR Incidental Findings Committee". 
  • Residual disease predicts outcomes after definitive resection for incidental gallbladder cancer. 
  • Response to Rosenberg et al. 
  • Retinal Vascular Imaging Markers and Incident Chronic Kidney Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study. 
  • Risk of unanticipated abnormal gynecologic pathology at the time of hysterectomy for uterovaginal prolapse. 
  • Safety of coronary CT angiography and functional testing for stable chest pain in the PROMISE trial: A randomized comparison of test complications, incidental findings, and radiation dose. 
  • Small serotonin-producing neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreas associated with pancreatic duct obstruction. 
  • Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas with prominent atypical multinucleated giant tumour cells. 
  • Structural brain anomalies in healthy adolescents in the NCANDA cohort: relation to neuropsychological test performance, sex, and ethnicity. 
  • Successful treatment of pneumatosis intestinalis with associated pneumoperitoneum and ileus with hyperbaric oxygen therapy. 
  • The incidental finding of a patent foramen ovale during cardiac surgery: should it always be repaired? A core review. 
  • The management of thyroid nodules in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Thyroid cancers incidentally detected at imaging in a 10-year period: how many cancers would be missed with use of the recommendations from the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound? 
  • Toward a uniform policy for handling incidental findings in neuroimaging research. 
  • Trends in incidentally identified thyroid cancers over a decade: a retrospective analysis of 2,090 surgical patients. 
  • Understanding the Risks and Harms of Management of Incidental Thyroid Nodules: A Review. 
  • Undiagnosed hypertension in the ED setting--an unrecognized opportunity by emergency nurses. 
  • Unexpected Cardiac MRI Findings in Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department for Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome. 
  • Unilateral luteoma of pregnancy mimicking a malignant ovarian mass on magnetic resonance and ultrasound. 
  • Using the 3-tiered system for categorizing workup of incidental thyroid nodules detected on CT, MRI, or PET/CT: how many cancers would be missed? 
  • What to do with incidental thyroid nodules identified on imaging studies? Review of current evidence and recommendations. 
  • What to do with incidental thyroid nodules on imaging? An approach for the radiologist. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Richard Hall Chaney, Sr. Distinguished Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Kearney, Hutton Moore, Assistant Consulting Professor in the Department of Pathology, Pathology
  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Associate Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology