The phrase "a collateral finding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts such as research, medical reports, or investigations where an additional or secondary discovery is made alongside the primary findings.
Example: "During the examination, a collateral finding revealed an unexpected anomaly in the patient's test results."
Alternatives: "an incidental finding" or "a secondary finding".
The unplanned exodus was a collateral finding to an ongoing study of the birds' migratory pattern.
As a collateral finding, although it was not the aim of this study, any necrosis sign in the physis was observed.
A collateral finding of this study is represented by the increase in nocifensive behavior in phase I of the formalin test following the administration of DMSO.
A collateral finding is that service providers in communities with large concentration of parolees can become overloaded, which ultimately may have a negative impact on parolee outcomes including inability to provide adequate health care (Hipp et al. 2009).
Mood and psychotic disorders may be the dominant feature of the phenotype or a collateral finding, and may occur in syndromic as well as non-syndromic [ 5, 6] mitochondrial disorders.
A second important collateral finding was that of being able to improve tendinitis complaints by using a neutral cream formulation to which triiodothyronine (T3) was added.
They also do not show that phthalate exposure caused abnormalities (all boys were "normal"), although the collateral finding that boys with a lower AGI had a higher incidence of cryptorchidism and reduced penis size, when compared with boys with a higher AGI, is consistent with an abnormal reduction in testosterone levels.
As collateral finding of the study, we can then highlight that using angiography and surgical exploration as reference exams, both 2PFD and SD proved to be 100% specific (i.e., 100% of TP) for vascular injuries detection; furthermore, SD proved to be 100% specific also for the evaluation of the type of injury.
Collateral findings were represented by bilateral vertebral artery hypoplasia together with a small saccular aneurysm (not-surgical) of the anterior communicating artery, confirmed by digital subtraction angiography (DSA) which revealed no additional vascular abnormalities.
Similar to other studies, patient hope for direct benefits greatly surpassed aspirational and collateral benefits as a motivator for trial participation, a finding indicative of a therapeutic misconception.
The habit of the courts finding collateral contracts to allow an injured third party to sue has been criticised, however, as "exceedingly artificial", and in light of the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 the use of this has been predicted to decrease.
