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Overnight Dexamethasone Suppression Test in the Diagnosis of Cushing's Disease [PDF]
Acta Medica Iranica, 2010 "nRealizing the cause of Cushing's Syndrome (CS) is one of the most challenging processes in clinical endocrinology. The long high dose dexamethasone suppression test (standard test) is costly and need an extended inpatient stay.
Fatemeh Esfahanian, Rozana Kazemi
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Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine, 2018 Introduction:Â The potential benefit of ultrasonography for detection of thoracic bone fractures has been proven in various surveys but no comprehensive conclusion has been drawn yet; therefore, the present study aimed to conduct a thorough meta-analytic
Mahmoud Yousefifard +8 more
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BMC Family Practice, 2021 Background There has been an increase in the numbers of patients presenting to primary care with suspected colorectal malignancy and subsequently an increase in demand for endoscopy.
CC Kearsey +5 more
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Evaluation of Four Rapid Antigen Tests for Detection of SARS-CoV-2 virus
Oman Medical Journal, 2021 Objectives: Considering the increasing, significant burden that coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) imposes on the healthcare system, the need for simple, rapid, and affordable diagnostic tests to support the existing costly and demanding polymerase ...
Sulaiman Al-Alawi +8 more
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Can clinical scoring systems improve the diagnostic accuracy in patients with suspected adult appendicitis and equivocal preoperative computed tomography findings? [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2017 Objective Adult appendicitis (AA) with equivocal computed tomography (CT) findings remains a diagnostic challenge for physicians. Herein we evaluated the diagnostic performance of several clinical scoring systems in adult patients with suspected ...
Min Seok Chae +6 more
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THE DIAGNOSTIC POTENTIAL OF SOME ROUTINE LABORATORY TESTS
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 1993 SUMMARY The potential was tested of white blood cell count (WBC), haemoglobin concentration (Hb) and erythrocyte volume fraction (EVF) to differentiate between patients with acute mesenteric ischaemia (AMI), perforation of colon, perforation of peptic ulcer, and intestinal obstruction.
E Bjørnestad, RT Lie, CW Janssen
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Chromoblastomycosis: an etiological, epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic, and treatment update [PDF]
Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2018 : Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic, granulomatous, suppurative mycosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissue caused by traumatic inoculation of dematiaceous fungi of the family Herpotrichiellaceae.
Arival Cardoso de Brito +1 more
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Diagnostics, 2021 The Liver Imaging Reporting and Data System (LI-RADS) is a comprehensive system for standardizing liver imaging in patients at risk of developing hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We aimed to determine the diagnostic performance of LI-RADS category 5 (LR5)
Lingling Li +5 more
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Validating blood tests as a possible routine diagnostic assay of Alzheimer’s disease
Expert Review of Molecular Diagnostics, 2023 In recent years, exciting developments in disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have made accurate and timely diagnosis of this disease a priority. Blood biomarkers (BBMs) for amyloid pathology using improved immunoassay and mass spectrometry techniques have been an area of intense research for the last 10 years and are coming to ...
Kodosaki, Eleftheria +2 more
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Should Diagnostic Curettage be Abandoned?
South African Family Practice, 1994 No abstract available.
P.R. de Jong
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