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Diagnostic tests for choreoacanthocytosis
Neurology, 1991Two patients with striatal atrophy and a clinical syndrome consistent with choreoacanthocytosis had normal dried blood smears but their red cells demonstrated an abnormal sensitivity to various conditions known to promote discocyte-echinocyte transformation.
W. J. Koroshetz +6 more
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Diagnostic Tests in Alcoholism
British Journal of Addiction to Alcohol & Other Drugs, 1972SummaryThe biochemical, physiological and psychological features of metabolic and endocrine disorders prevalent in alcoholics, in conjunction with reactions to carbohydrate, amino acid and nicotinic acid tolerance tests, suggest a means of distinguishing the alcoholism from heavy drinking.Case and family histories, considered in relation to genetic ...
J. G. Benjafield, L. F. Rutter
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Veterinary Parasitology, 2007
Interpretation of the result of a diagnostic test depends not only on the actual test result(s) but also on information external to this result, namely the test's sensitivity and specificity. This external information (also called prior information) must be combined with the data to yield the so-called updated, posterior estimates of the true ...
Lesaffre, E. +2 more
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Interpretation of the result of a diagnostic test depends not only on the actual test result(s) but also on information external to this result, namely the test's sensitivity and specificity. This external information (also called prior information) must be combined with the data to yield the so-called updated, posterior estimates of the true ...
Lesaffre, E. +2 more
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Evidence Based Mental Health, 2014
This is the second of a series of evidence-based case conferences. The main aim of this new series of papers is help clinicians learn and apply the evidence-based approach in their own clinical practices. The clinical question that we seek to solve in each of this series emanates from a real clinical case.
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This is the second of a series of evidence-based case conferences. The main aim of this new series of papers is help clinicians learn and apply the evidence-based approach in their own clinical practices. The clinical question that we seek to solve in each of this series emanates from a real clinical case.
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. . . And a Diagnostic Test Was Performed
New England Journal of Medicine, 2005To the Editor: At a recent case conference with a distinguished visiting professor, a fellow in allergy and immunology presented the case of an infant with diarrhea; an unusual rash (“alligator skin”); multiple immunologic abnormalities, including low T-cell function; tissue eosinophilia (of the gastric mucosa) as well as peripheral eosinophilia; and ...
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Diagnostic Tests for Urticaria
Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, 2014Clinical diagnosis is made essentially by the characteristics of skin eruptions and detailed history taking. Particular, but not general blood examinations and/or skin biopsy should be performed if clinical diagnosis suggests the necessity of these examinations.
Makiko Hiragun +2 more
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Blepharoptosis: diagnostic tests
Vestnik oftal'mologii, 2016The article discusses diagnostic algorithms for blepharoptosis in patients with Horner's syndrome, myasthenia, chronic progressive ophthalmoplegia, myotonic dystrophy, and acute neurovascular events. Basic methods for evaluating the upper eyelid position and ptosis severity as well as special pharmacologic stress tests to reveal the true etiology of ...
I V Blinova, N V Fisenko, Y O Grusha
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2012
As mentioned in the previous section, not every case of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome shows signs of arterial compression. In a recent study [1] 148 patients were evaluated with duplex ultrasound; when the patients were subjected to routine maneuvers of abduction of the arm to elicit compression of the artery, 51 % of them showed definite ...
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As mentioned in the previous section, not every case of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome shows signs of arterial compression. In a recent study [1] 148 patients were evaluated with duplex ultrasound; when the patients were subjected to routine maneuvers of abduction of the arm to elicit compression of the artery, 51 % of them showed definite ...
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Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests
2008As technology advances, diagnostic tests continue to improve, and each year, we are presented with new alternatives to the standard procedures. Given the plethora of diagnostic alternatives, diagnostic tests must be evaluated to determine their place in the diagnostic armamentarium.
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Diagnostic Tests in Allergy [PDF]
, 2000 The diagnosis of allergic diseases depends first and foremost on a careful medical history taken by a suitably experienced clinician. An allergy history concentrates on the relationship between the consistency of the patient’s problems with allergic diseases and the likelihood that the problems are the result of allergen exposure.
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