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Diagnostic Errors (3):
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Diagnostic Errors
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To compare the clinical diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with results of post-bronchodilator spirometry in general practice, and examine practitioner, practice and patient characteristics associated with agreement between clinical and spirometric diagnoses.
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PMID: 21843115
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Archivio italiano di urologia, andrologia : organo ufficiale [di] Societa italiana di ecografia urologica e nefrologica / Associazione ricerche in urologia (83)2 2011
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A 78-year-old male presented complaining voiding low urinary tract symptoms associated to genital weightiness over the past few years. Grossly the lesion was only interesting the scrotum, for an about 7.5 kg mass. The scrotum was minimally tender, with an intact skin bereft of erythe...
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PMID: 21826882
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Sarcopenia, the age-associated loss of skeletal muscle mass and function, has considerable societal consequences for the development of frailty, disability, and health care planning. A group of geriatricians and scientists from academia and industry met in Rome, Italy, on November 18...
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PMID: 21527165
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Clinical Cancer Research (17)9 2011
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médecine/sciences (27)5 2011
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18-F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) -positron emission tomography (PET), and more recently PET/computed tomography (CT), is the most sensitive and specific imaging technique currently available for patients with lymphoma. Nevertheless, despite being increasingly used in pretreatment assessment, midtreatmen...
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PMID: 21482982
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We report a case of lumbosacral plexopathy caused by an isolated aneurysm in the common iliac artery. The patient presented with low back and buttock pain radiating to the right leg and numbness in the L5 and S1 dermatomes. A computed tomography scan showed an aneurysm of the right common iliac arter...
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PMID: 18614317
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Connecticut medicine (75)4 2011
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We report a case of a rare Hb variant, Hb Santa Juana, manifesting as a falsely high HbA1c in a 62-year-old patient with type 2 diabetes mellitus. The patient presented with high HbA1c values that persisted despite the intensification of anti-diabetic treatment. His home blood glucose levels were in...
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PMID: 21552778
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To determine differentiating symptoms and signs of epiglottitis and laryngotracheobronchitis (croup).
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PMID: 21091577
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Minimal residue disease (MRD) is a state in which the tumor cells remain in the patient in the amounts unrecognizable with the standard cytological techniques. Flow cytometry is one of the basic methods for evaluation of MRD in precursor B-lineage acute lymphoblastic leukemia (PBLALL). The so-called...
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PMID: 21574456
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Psychiatria Danubina (23)1 2011
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We will present the case of a 50 year old patient, treated on two occasions for psychotic depression. During the second hospitalization it is possible that antipsychotic treatment combined with an antidepressant caused akathisia or there were symptoms of agitated depression and akathisia present at...
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PMID: 21448111
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Presse Medicale (40)6 2011
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Annals of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery : official journal of the Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons of Asia (17)1 2011
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We performed coronary angiography, which showed complete obstruction of the circumflex coronary artery. We determined that the condition was caused by infective endocarditis. Emergency surgery showed the complete rupture of the anterior papillary muscle, but there was no vegetation. The mitral valve...
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PMID: 21587137
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Clinical Medicine (11)1 2011
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Transient loss of consciousness (T-LOC), or blackout, is common in acute medicine. Clinical skills are not done well, with at least 74,000 patients misdiagnosed and mistreated for epilepsy in England alone. The aim of this study was to provide a rapid, structured assessment and an electrocardiogram (...
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PMID: 21404775
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To explore the features, treatment outcomes and reasons for misdiagnosis in patients with multiple trauma, so as to decrease the incidence of misdiagnosis.
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PMID: 21276363
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American Surgeon (77)2 2011
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The cytologic touch imprint alone can be diagnostic of pituitary adenomas and meningiomas, etc. A 45-year-old man was operated upon for intracranial meningioma. Imprint cytology revealed distinct cytologic features which helped arriving at the specific diagnosis of pituitary adenoma intraoperatively...
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PMID: 21254464
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Presse Medicale (40)6 2011
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Global Public Health (6)4 2011
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We collected camp clinic records on outpatient malaria diagnoses from 2004 through 2007 and compared the morbidity percentages attributed to malaria during these years, as well as the actual incidence of malaria in 2006 and 2007. Our analyses demonstrate that malaria accounted for 45.8% of all morbi...
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PMID: 21308578
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We wanted to examine whether the data can be used for identification of children born SGA and used in future research....
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PMID: 21304958
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We propose that patients suspected to have MDS may suffer from vitamin B(12) deficiency and that this can be revealed by a normalization of CBCs following 7 days of treatment with parental vitamin B(12)....
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PMID: 21252496
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Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia (22)4 2011
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We present a case of young female who presented with a history of frequent urinary tract infection (UTI) post urinary diversion for neurogenic bladder. Ever since she underwent simple cystectomy, there have been no further episodes of UTI....
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PMID: 21743229
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Saudi journal of kidney diseases and transplantation : an official publication of the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation, Saudi Arabia (22)4 2011
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BMC Dermatology (11)1 2011
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Skin diseases are underestimated and overlooked by most clinicians despite being common in clinical practice. Many patients are hospitalized with co-existing dermatological conditions which may not be detected and managed by the attending physicians. The objective of this study was to determine the b...
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PMID: 21492436
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We report the case of a 22-year-old woman with a preoperative diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and superior vena caval thrombosis. Intraoperatively, an extensive sarcoma was seen to extend retrograde from the pulmonary artery, past the right ventricle and right atrium, and into the superior vena cava...
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PMID: 21423477
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Total laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH) is a minimally invasive technique, which results in comparable morbidity and better cosmesis compared with total abdominal hysterectomy. The literature is discrepant as to whether it is associated with a higher incidence of positive peritoneal cytology compared w...
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PMID: 21164295
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The case of a 20-year-old pregnant woman with a history of one previous cesarean section (CS) who developed a tumorous mass in the area of the CS scar is presented. The clinical diagnosis of endometriosis or fibromatosis was made but the histologic findings were confusing and the pat...
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PMID: 21995171
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Our case describes one such rare event and questions whether women should be evaluated based on their individual social behaviors and risk factors....
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PMID: 21682123
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Journal of Trauma (70)1 2011
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I trauma center from March 2008 to September 2008. After Institutional Review Board approval, all evaluable blunt trauma patients older than 15 years were evaluated by a senior resident or attending surgeon for TL spine deformity, tenderness to palpation, and neurologic deficits. Patients were follo...
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PMID: 20489662
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American Family Physician (82)11 2010
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despite the improved quality of diagnostic technology, myocardial infarction still belongs to the diseases that are most frequently overlooked. Especially asymptomatic patients or patients with atypical symptoms are more common to be misdiagnosed. Failure to correctly diagnose is the leading cause o...
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PMID: 21120784
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Journal of Trauma (69)6 2010
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We repeated this evaluation using the high-quality images and improved the methodology.
The 70 Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM)-quality CXR images were randomly selected from two prospectively collected trauma databases including 22 normal, 5 overt PTX, and 43 study OPTX images...
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PMID: 21150515
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We report a case of a 70-year-old man with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) in whom bronchial asthma had been clinically diagnosed and treated, and who showed remarkable improvement by pulmonary endarterectomy. He had dyspnea on exertion and had been clinically treated for bronc...
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PMID: 21141063
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The concept of quality and the principle of continuous quality improvement are implemented by quality management systems. Quality management systems surpass mere quality control. These systems account for patient and employee needs, the management style and the structure of an enterprise. Many of th...
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PMID: 20577939
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Multiple sclerosis may affect both afferent and efferent visual pathways, and sometimes physicians err on ordinary ophthalmologic diagnosis due to overlapping symptoms between demyelinating and nondemyelinating visual diseases. The present article highlights nondemyelinating ocular occurrences due t...
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PMID: 20736835
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This article reviews recent trends in nongyn cytology with an emphasis on error reduction, second opinion, and critical diagnosis. Compared with the surgical pathology literature, there is only a limited number of reports addressing these topics in nongyn cytology. Discussion of the error literature...
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PMID: 20966649
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To analyze the reason of error diagnosis and inappropriate treatment of radius head fractures complicating distal radioulnar joint dislocation (Essex-Lopresti injury) and to seek for the reasonable treatment.
From 2008 to 2009, 2 male patients of radius head fractures complicating distal radioulnar...
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PMID: 21254691
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American Surgeon (76)11 2010
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Our goal was to identify the most effective strategy for decreasing radiation exposure while retaining the benefits of computerized imaging. Based on a literature review and our trauma registry, the mortality risk of untreated injuries was compared with that of patients who received treatment of inj...
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PMID: 21140695
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The diagnostic of malignancy in biopsy specimens is very important because it guides to selected treatment option and prognostic prediction. However biopsy specimens usually have small pieces leading to variations of the interpretation by anatomical pathologists.
To detect and correct the errors or...
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PMID: 21114211
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Granulomatous mycosis fungoides is an unusual histopathological variant of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma without clinical distinction from classic mycosis fungoides. Symptoms associated with peripheral nerve involvement have rarely been reported in the literature.
The authors described a case of granulo...
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PMID: 21114213
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We evaluated automated platelet counting methods using the Abbott Cell-Dyn Sapphire (Abbott Diagnostics, Santa Clara, CA), Sysmex XE-2100 (Sysmex, Kobe, Japan), ADVIA 2120 (Siemens Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY), and Beckman Coulter LH 750 (Beckman Coulter, Miami, FL) compared with the international re...
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PMID: 20855645
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Testing for pheochromocytoma becomes more frequent in clinical practice. False positive test results may cause patient anxiety and unnecessary imaging studies. The data on false positive results for pheochromocytoma in routine clinical practice are lacking. To examine the prevalence of false positiv...
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PMID: 19998239
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To investigate the clinical features of autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) in children so as to improve the awareness of the disease.
The medical records of 12 children who were clinically diagnosed as AIH between 2004 and 2008 were reviewed. The scoring system of the International Autoimmune Hepatitis Grou...
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PMID: 21176485
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Pediatric Emergency Care (26)10 2010
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Drastic effects of cryoglobulin on blood cell counts, erythrocyte morphology and M-protein analysis.
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Psychological Medicine (40)10 2010
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