Incidental medical findings

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]

A report by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues on incidental findings[4]
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  4. ^ Couzin-Frankel, Jennifer (2013). "President's Bioethics Panel Weighs in on How U.S. Should Handle Incidental Findings". news.sciencemag.org. Retrieved 13 December 2013.