Find suspected duplicates after import

I have approximately 11,000 photos to organize. I created a catalog name and chose to skip suspected duplicates. Approximately 8,000 photos were imported. This is reasonable since I consolidated photos from current drives and backups of two computers.
How do I find the suspected duplicates? I want to review the duplicates and delete all duplicates to free disk space. How do I which photos were not imported?
Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.
Ken

Hi Ken!
Lightroom does a fairly decent job finding duplicates during an import but does not make it as easy once the images are in the catalog. Take a look at http://www.lightroom-plugins.com/DupesIndex.php. You can try it for free and see if it will help you out.

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