"incidental discovery" is correct and usable in written English.
You use this phrase when something is found or observed unexpectedly while one is doing or investigating something else. For example, "The scientists made an incidental discovery while assessing the effects of air pollution on the local population."
An incidental discovery was that even legendary success brought little happiness, only redoubled restlessness, gnawing ambition.
The issues of exploitation of natural resources and people, of self-experimentation, of ignoring the incidental discovery of a potentially far more socially important but less lucrative drug, of the consequences of messing with nature combine to form the compelling crux of this book.
It is usually an incidental discovery in imaging studies.
Open image in new window Fig. 11 Incidental discovery of a pontine telangiectasia in a 34-year-old woman investigated for migraine.
Open image in new window Fig. 10 Incidental discovery of a cerebellar developmental venous anomaly in a 48-year-old man investigated for right-sided sensorineural hearing loss.
Clinicians can make a probable distinction between acute and chronic disease by considering the context of diagnosis asymptomatic patients diagnosed after incidental discovery of elevated transaminases most likely have chronic disease whereas newly symptomatic patients with elevated transaminases likely have acute disease.
Currently, there is no diagnostic modality for early detection of renal cancer, other than incidental radiologic discovery, and no method of surveillance of recurrence or response to chemotherapy.
Jumping into the fray of a controversial topic, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released a report this afternoon on how to handle incidental findings, discoveries about an individual's DNA and other health-related information that show up while hunting for something else.
The use of neuroimaging revealed in three cases the discovery of incidental benign abnormalities (Chiari I malformation, arachnoid cyst, non-specific white matter abnormalities).
All teachers indicated that they referred to it, mainly because his discovery was incidental at first and was then rejected by the scientific community for years until it was accepted and then appreciated.
According to practice parameters published by the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society [19], our data confirm that EEG is not recommended in the routine evaluation of headache, as it is unlikely to define an etiology and may lead to the discovery of incidental benign abnormalities, with subsequent unnecessary investigations and hospital admission.
