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The Diagnostic Challenge in Pulmonary Cryptococcosis Among Immunocompetent Patients: The ‘False-Negative’ Serum Cryptococcal Antigen [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Fungi
Objective: To delineate the demographic, clinical, and radiological features of immunocompetent patients with pulmonary cryptococcosis (PC) who test negative for serum cryptococcal antigen (CrAg), a subgroup that poses a diagnostic challenge.
Miaojuan Zhu, Nishan Deng, Hanxiang Nie
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Evaluation of false positive and false negative errors in targeted next generation sequencing [PDF]

open access: yesGenome Biology
Background Next-generation sequencing (NGS) has become an indispensable diagnostic tool across various diseases. However, sequencing and analysis errors remain major barriers to clinical implementation.
Youngbeen Moon   +10 more
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False Negative Results in Cervical Cancer Screening—Risks, Reasons and Implications for Clinical Practice and Public Health

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
False negative (FN) results in cervical cancer (CC) screening pose serious risks to women. We present a comprehensive literature review on the risks and reasons of obtaining the FN results of primary CC screening tests and triage methods and discuss ...
Anna Macios, Andrzej Nowakowski
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FALSE-NEGATIVE DENGUE CASES [PDF]

open access: yesRevista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2015
Sim Sai TIN, Viroj WIWANITKIT
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Human Papillomavirus-Negative Cervical Cancer: A Comprehensive Review

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2021
Human papillomavirus (HPV) has been the leading cause of cervical cancer for over 25 years. Approximately 5.5–11% of all cervical cancers are reported to be HPV-negative, which can be attributed to truly negative and false-negative results. The truly HPV-
Biyuan Xing   +4 more
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Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing in Germany

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2022
In the short 10 years following the introduction of non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT), it has been adapted in many countries around the world as a standard screening test.
Thomas Liehr   +3 more
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Axillary Lymph Node Dissection Can Be Omitted in Breast Cancer Patients With Mastectomy and False-Negative Frozen Section in Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundThe IBCSG 23-01 and AMAROS trials both reported that axillary lymph node dissection (ALND) did not change survival rates in breast cancer patients with positive nodes detected by sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB).
Jing Si   +11 more
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Understanding False Negative in Prenatal Testing

open access: yesDiagnostics, 2021
A false negative can happen in many kinds of medical tests, regardless of whether they are screening or diagnostic in nature. However, it inevitably poses serious concerns especially in a prenatal setting because its sequelae can mark the birth of an ...
Mark I. Evans, Ming Chen, David W. Britt
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Postmortem diagnosis of COVID-19: Antemortem challenges of three cases at the 37 Military Hospital, Accra, Ghana

open access: yesAfrican Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2020
Background: Consistency among clinical symptoms, laboratory results and autopsy findings can be a quality measure in the diagnosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Seth A. Attoh   +13 more
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Assessment of Health Monitoring Trustworthiness of Avionics Systems

open access: yesInternational Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, 2021
The article provides a methodology for assessing the trustworthiness of health monitoring the dismounted avionics systems with automated test equipment (ATE).
Vladimir Ulansky   +2 more
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