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Mass screening newborns for mucopolysaccharidoses
Clinical Genetics, 1973A modification of Berry's test for the screening of mucopolysaccharides in urine, applicable with urine‐impregnated filter paper, is presented. So far, 15,000 newborns have been screened with this method. Of these, 103 gave a positive test result at 20 days of age.
J, Sabater, M, Villalba, A, Maya
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Colonoscopy as a mass screening tool
European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 1998There is strong evidence that population screening can reduce mortality from colorectal cancer. Screening tests such as faecal occult blood test and flexible sigmoidoscopy are used to identify patients with an increased risk of cancer who would benefit from a full colon examination. There is indirect evidence that colonoscopy may be effective as a mass
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Automation of mass screening for glaucoma
Biomedical Engineering, 1979An experimental model (mock-up) of automated complex "Glaucoma" has been produced for mass population screening. It comprises five ophthalmologic instruments: for history data collection; for visual acuity examining; for examining the visual fields limits (perimeter); for determination of paracentral sites within visual field (campimeter), and finally ...
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Screening Bone Mass Measurements
Annals of Internal Medicine, 1986Excerpt To the editor: The technical limitations of bone mass measurements, and their potential misuse, are discussed by Dr. Ott in her editorial (1).
R, Wasnich, P, Ross
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Mass Screening for Colorectal Cancer
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1977To the Editor. — As directors of the Colorectal Task Force of the American Cancer Society, District of Columbia Division, Inc, we were interested to read Goodman's negative report on mass screening for colorectal cancer (237:2380, 1977). The American Cancer Society, District of Columbia Division, Inc, is sponsoring a mass screening project in ...
G B, Helfrich, P, Petrucci, H, Webb
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MASS SCREENING IN COLORECTAL CANCER
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 1980The results in a continuing study, using the Haemoccult slides for mass Screening in colorectal cancer In asymptomatic individuals in Central Queensland, are presented. They are compared with those in a review of the incidence of the same disease treated during the years 1972 to 1976 in the same area. A discussion is undertaken to determine whether the
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The psychiatric effects of mass screening
Public Health, 1972MAss SCREENING techniques like Mass Radiography and the School Health Service have been part of the social scene for many years, and it has not until recently beez~ suggested that screening might be potentially harmful by leading to a neurotic preoccupation with health matters.
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JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1972
To the Editor.— We note with interest the growing outcry against mass X-ray film screening. Authorities are concluding that the potential benefit does not warrant the risk of radiation damage. Most analyses of this subject (220:278, 1972) contain a curious, but significant, omission.
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To the Editor.— We note with interest the growing outcry against mass X-ray film screening. Authorities are concluding that the potential benefit does not warrant the risk of radiation damage. Most analyses of this subject (220:278, 1972) contain a curious, but significant, omission.
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Mass screening for colorectal cancer
The American Journal of Surgery, 1974Abstract An innovative screening program for the detection of colorectal cancer was conducted in a county of 300,000. In fifteen centers a free rectal examination was offered and each participant received a kit with dietary instructions and three stool guaiac test slides to be returned by mail.
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Mass spectrometry and neonatal screening
Annales de biologie clinique, 2015Tandem mass spectrometry allows to screen many inherited metabolic diseases within a single blood spot. It is possible to screen newborns for amino and organic acid, fatty acid oxidation disorders and lysosomal diseases. Tandem mass spectrometry neonatal screening is not yet realized in France in 2014.
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