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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Preanalytical issues related to routine and diagnostic glucose tests: Results from a survey in Spain [PDF]
Biochemia medica, 2020 Introduction: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most prevalent diseases worldwide. The objective of this study was to find out under what preanalytical conditions routine and diagnostic glucose tests are performed across Spanish laboratories; and also what criteria are used for DM diagnosis.
García-Del-pino, I. +12 more
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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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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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How to prevent overdiagnosis [PDF]
, 2015 Overdiagnosis is the diagnosis of an abnormality that is not associated with a substantial health hazard and that patients have no benefit to be aware of.
Aujesky, D. +4 more
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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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Evaluating PET-CT in the detection and management of recurrent cervical cancer: Systematic reviews of diagnostic accuracy and subjective elicitation [PDF]
, 2013 Background: Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is recommended to triage women for exenterative surgery and surveillance after treatment for advanced cervical cancer.
Auguste, P +12 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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Optimisation and validation of a PCR for Antigen Receptor Rearrangement (PARR) assay to detect clonality in canine lymphoid malignancies [PDF]
, 2016 PCR for antigen receptor gene rearrangements (PARR) analysis is being increasingly used to assist diagnosis of canine lymphoma. In this study, PARR was carried out on consecutive samples received as part of routine diagnostic practice from 271 patients ...
Gallagher, Alice +6 more
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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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