How to understand the entence: "The right kidney is atrophic, but otherwise unremarkable."?

Question:

The sentence " The right kidney is atrophic, but otherwise unremarkable" is very difficult to understand.
Does it mean "the right kidney is absolutely atrophic" ?
Or it means " The right kidney is not surely atrophic, for it is not atropohic because it is not clear.
Or is there any other understanding for the sentence ?

Answers:
unremarkable - in hospital terms means normal. or another way to put it - nothing really to comment about.

atrophic - i.e. atrophy, a wasting away of the body or of an organ as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.

So depending on the age and condition of the patient - older patient, it sounds very normal. If this is a young person, what are you doing to cause your kidney to atrophy?

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Hey! I have an atrophic kidney! Have you been reading my medical records???

I take it that the right kidney is atrophic, but other than that, it is just a kidney like every other kidney.

The right kidney is atrophic, but otherwise seem to have no other pathology.

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