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Breast Fine needle Aspiration Biopsy Cytology Reporting using International Academy of Cytology Yokohama SystemTwo Year Retrospective Study in Tertiary Care Centre in Southern India [PDF]
National Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2019 Introduction: The study is based on application of recently proposed International Academy of cytology (IAC) Yokohama system of Breast cytology. Aim: The main objectives of the study were to categorise the Breast Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy (FNAB ...
Poornima V Kamatar +2 more
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Positive and negative predictive values by the TOC curve
Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods, 2020 Sensitivity and specificity are popular measures described by the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. There are also two other measures such as the positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV); however, the PPV and NPV cannot be represented by the ROC curve.
So Yeon Choi, Chong Sun Hong
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Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023 Background: Postpartum haemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally and in sub-Saharan Africa. The shock index( ratio of the pulse to systolic pressure) is a quicker and more objective assessment tool for assessing the risk of ...
Joel Njagala Calls Lwasa +4 more
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BMC Psychiatry, 2018 Background The aims of this study were to explore the relationship between early reduction in psychotic symptoms and the ultimate response in patients with schizophrenia treated by atypical antipsychotics, and to determine the best time to switch or ...
Yi-Lung Chen +4 more
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Preschool vision screening: negative predictive value for amblyopia [PDF]
British Journal of Ophthalmology, 1999 Single optotype tests of visual acuity are widely used for preschool vision screening in order to optimise cooperation with testing. These tests may, however, underestimate the visual acuity deficit in amblyopia because they lack visual crowding.
Miranda M. East, Douglas K Newman
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Mcdonald Diagnostic Criteria for Pediatric MS
Pediatric Neurology Briefs, 2012 Researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto and other centers in Canada used serial clinical and MRI examinations performed over a minimum of 24 months to retrospectively evaluate the 2010 and 2005 McDonald criteria for the ...
J Gordon Millichap
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020 Introduction: Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a frequent and severe complication in cirrhotic patients with ascites. SBP is generally diagnosed based on an increased number of polymorphonuclear neutrophils in the ascitic fluid (>250/mm3) and ...
Harshad Khairnar +7 more
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Predictive Value of a Negative Exercise Electrocardiogram
Cardiology, 1991 Conventionally, if an exercise electrocardiogram does not show evidence of ischemia, the patient must have achieved at least 85% of the predicted maximum heart rate for that test to be considered negative. However, no documentation of the validity of this practice exists.
Lawrence J. Laslett +3 more
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Cancer Cytopathology, 2019 Urinary tract cytology (UTCy) is used for screening urothelial carcinoma (UC) and it must have a high negative predictive value (NPV) to be an effective test. To the authors’ knowledge, the literature regarding the NPV of UTCy provides little information
P. McIntire +5 more
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Clinical Otolaryngology, 2018 In cT1‐2N0, oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) occult metastases are detected in 23%‐37% of cases. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) was introduced in head and neck cancer as a minimally invasive alternative for an elective neck dissection in neck ...
K. Boeve +10 more
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