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The increasing use of chest computed tomography (CT) — both for lung cancer screening and for clinical indications such as suspected pulmonary embolism — has led to a corresponding increase in detection of incidental findings unrelated to the original reason for the procedure. Now, a group of experts (primarily pulmonologists and radiologists) have published an overview of such findings and their potential implications for clinical practice (Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2024; 210:281). As stated by the authors, these scans “contain a wealth of information that is largely ignored in clinical practice,” either because the ordering physician fails to act on it or because the radiologist might not have reported some of the incidental abnormalities…