| Ultrasonography has replaced cholecystography as the diagnostic test for gall stones. |
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| It has also provided diagnostic equipment, beds and trolleys for the hospital. |
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| These features are as just as diagnostic as slipways, docks, capstans, roperies, smithies or other such structural evidence. |
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| In other cases the appropriate psychiatric diagnostic category is a somatoform disorder. |
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| Laparoscopy can be used as a diagnostic modality in situations where the cause of abdominal pain is not known. |
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| Some diagnostic modalities, such as computed tomographic scanning, have particularly low yields. |
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| The exact role and indications for use of these imaging modalities as diagnostic aids still are being defined. |
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| In the future, advanced diagnostic modalities, such as myocardial perfusion imaging, may have a role in reducing unnecessary hospitalizations. |
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| These are patients for whom traditional diagnostic and therapeutic modalities have failed. |
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| The questions focused on general applications of therapeutic or diagnostic modalities in nonspecific clinical situations. |
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| Endoscopic minimally invasive surgery has evolved from a diagnostic modality to a widespread surgical technique. |
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| The company has developed diagnostic software to evaluate organisational effectiveness within companies. |
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| However, with the advent of newer diagnostic and treatment modalities, more problems are getting detected and treated earlier, he adds. |
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| Indeed, rheumatoid factor testing is not useful when a patient lacks other diagnostic criteria for rheumatoid arthritis, especially synovitis. |
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| The list of registered patients was cross checked against the lipid clinic computerised diagnostic register. |
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| Applied medical research could be on the diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, on agent-host-environment interactions, or health assessments. |
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| Other diagnostic modalities include Wood's lamp examination, fungal culture, and skin or nail biopsy. |
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| Most studies of psychopathology focus on individual disorders and screen out comorbid cases to reduce diagnostic heterogeneity. |
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| There have been significant new diagnostic tools, such as X-ray imagery, CAT scans, mammography, and sonograms, to mention only a few. |
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| This is crucial not only for investigating potential teratogens but also for monitoring new prenatal screening and diagnostic tests. |
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| Any sign of cancer should be communicated to the radiologist with the referral for a diagnostic mammogram. |
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| The evaluation of any diagnostic tool has to be done in comparison with a gold standard. |
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| It is superseding most diagnostic endoscopic cholangiopancreatography as faster magnetic resonance imaging scanners become more widely available. |
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| Conchs of the Girvan specimens match the diagnostic traits given above in terms of the ligula, aperture and ornamentation on the shell. |
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| To make sure all these features are running smoothly, the vehicles even have on-board diagnostic systems. |
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| In terms of their variability, teeth are not the best taxonomically diagnostic character at the species level. |
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| After this she was not strong enough to work in interventional cardiology and devoted herself to clinical and diagnostic cardiology. |
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| Cardiological equipment, surgical and orthopaedic instruments, respiratory equipment, and diagnostic apparatus are among the primary imports. |
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| The Babinski reflex is not, in and of itself, diagnostic for a particular condition. |
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| Limitations of current diagnostic techniques in detecting infection at an early stage have prompted the development of new diagnostic tools. |
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| For example, tubing made from cobalt alloys can be used in the production of rigid or stiff endoscopes for use in certain diagnostic procedures. |
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| The new diagnostic kits can detect the virus or antibodies for the virus in nasal or throat secretions and serum. |
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| The increasing availability of magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasonography should improve diagnostic reliability. |
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| If the area is not palpable, diagnostic mammography and ultrasonography should be performed. |
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| The excavations produced no diagnostic artifacts but did yield lithic debris and a limited quantity of preserved floral remains. |
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| At this time, a diagnostic endoscope is inserted for assessment of the umbilical cords and placenta. |
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| This can be difficult to see and is not diagnostic, as other sandpipers also have these webbed feet. |
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| What is the diagnostic significance of microhaematuria in patients with pain in the loin or lower urinary tract symptoms? |
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| All patients in the study underwent diagnostic arthroscopy the day after ultrasonography. |
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| There were still, however, strains that appeared to be pure types, from the diagnostic bands on the autoradiogram. |
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| The camera played a critical role in the diagnostic equipment that made sure the shuttle's twin booster rockets were safe for blast-off. |
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| For a wide-spread disease where treatment is cheap and relatively painless for the patient, a cheap and simple diagnostic test is suitable. |
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| The most diagnostic of the physical findings are those found on auscultation of the heart. |
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| Soon the researchers will be cranking out large numbers of diagnostic probes to inventory microbes in manure samples from different environments. |
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| How you would go about facilitating their removal is dependent on the personality of the duppy, and requires a degree of diagnostic work. |
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| A concordant diagnosis is defined as placement of the slide within the correct series of diagnostic classification. |
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| We planned a systematic review to assess the evidence on the diagnostic impact of these and other signs and symptoms. |
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| One Swiss study examined the question of whether chronic course is a desirable classifier in the diagnostic system of mood disorders. |
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| All patients with chronic kidney disease should undergo urinalysis and renal imaging as part of the diagnostic evaluation. |
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| Clinics such as orthopaedics, urology, gynaecology and gastroenterology are dependent on the diagnostic and treatment centre. |
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| The predominant diagnostic group was urology, followed by biopsy and general surgery. |
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| Slides showing reparative changes elicit responses that were among the least concordant for any diagnostic category for laboratory responses. |
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| Patients with CFS often complain of myalgias and arthralgias, but exhibit no diagnostic signs of musculoskeletal disorder. |
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| Doctors believe that this finding could lead to a new diagnostic tool for those that suffer from the disease and allow for early treatment. |
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| This discrepancy along with other diagnostic tests indicated that he was dyslexic. |
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| However, these tests are not as diagnostic as electromyography or muscle biopsy. |
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| However, such an unselective policy has resulted in inestimable numbers of unnecessary exposures to radiation for little diagnostic yield. |
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| Whether a tech makes house calls or has a shop, the tools of the trade should include a bootable disk, virus software, and diagnostic programs. |
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| The best diagnostic test available for DVT is venography, although magnetic resonance imaging may rival venography for accuracy. |
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| These diagnostic talents, secondly, are in the service of an expectant attitude, bearing the burdens of incompletion. |
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| Although no necrosis was present in the diagnostic lymph node, an adjacent lymph node showed total coagulative necrosis. |
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| Personnel can perform diagnostic tests to confirm the diagnosis of latex hypersensitivity. |
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| The question of what constitutes a diagnostic error in anatomic pathology should be addressed. |
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| The instinctive personal preference and familiarity with formalin is an important factor in diagnostic surgical pathology. |
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| Failure of mating pairs to mix cytoplasms during conjugation is diagnostic of a complete block in cell fusion. |
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| The median waiting times were four weeks for specialist visits, 4.3 weeks for non-emergency surgery and three weeks for diagnostic tests. |
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| Epidermoid cysts, squamous papillomas, and fibroepithelial polyps do not usually present differential diagnostic difficulties. |
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| A physician examined 10 patients who fulfilled diagnostic criteria for chronic fatigue syndrome and reported swollen neck glands. |
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| What are the variations in diagnostic tests and interventions for the potential clinical abnormality? |
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| To further minimize the imprudent use of antibiotics for treatment of influenza, diagnostic techniques should be considered. |
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| Recognizing the origin of the malignant tumor represents another diagnostic pitfall. |
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| They demonstrated diagnostic negative birefringence under the polarizing microscope. |
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| Commodification also has brought with it a system of reimbursement based on diagnostic coding according to stringent guidelines. |
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| Commonly used with endoscopes and diagnostic equipment, the material can also be used for potting and encapsulation. |
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| Development and introduction of new diagnostic techniques have greatly accelerated over the past decades. |
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| Unlike other diagnostic criteria, the pulse is very reactive and reflects the most current state of the individual. |
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| Initial diagnostic cystoscopy can be performed under local anesthesia using a rigid or flexible cystoscope. |
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| Many reports and reviews have challenged the diagnostic value of serum precipitins for case finding. |
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| The crash sensors and diagnostic unit measure deceleration, not acceleration. |
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| Biopsy of the primary growth itself is diagnostic and may show caseating granulomatous inflammation. |
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| Goodness of fit was assessed by diagnostic plots and the statistical significance of the Pearson chi-square of the fitted model. |
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| Therefore, every reported case is useful in defining the diagnostic, prognostic, therapeutic, and natural history criteria of the disease. |
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| Subsidence sinkholes are diagnostic landforms of karst, which form in unconsolidated soils or drift deposits overlying cavernous limestone. |
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| The subcontract also includes fabrication of the 90 vacuum vessel ports that will provide plasma heating and diagnostic access. |
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| The strong lateral constriction at the beginning of the gerontic whorl is also a diagnostic shell feature of this subfamily. |
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| He tapped a command onto the keyboard and the computer monitor changed from a radar screen to a diagnostic of the ship. |
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| The breakthrough, however, could come from the development of protein biochips for diagnostic use. |
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| After undertaking this training students will be required to reattempt the diagnostic assessment. |
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| This paper is aimed at a demonstration of diagnostic possibilities in coxalgia. |
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| In patients with an obvious focus of infections, a focused diagnostic workup is required. |
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| This scanner also will allow us to obtain diagnostic scans in patients who are too dyspneic to hold their breath. |
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| Hyperventilation, palpitations, fear, and anxiety are unreliable diagnostic criteria, as these cases demonstrate. |
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| Additionally, patients were given herbal formulae based on the diagnostic patterns of the disorder. |
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| All the studied species have diagnostic alleles in addition to morphologically distinctive characters. |
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| But anaphora has never been taken seriously as a diagnostic for such a distinction. |
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| The insertion of mega-brand convenience stores like these into fragile local business ecologies will be a powerful diagnostic for their health. |
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| A formal audiogram establishes a base from which to pursue more advanced diagnostic testing. |
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| She is also head of the hospital's academic department of diagnostic radiology. |
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| A clinical history and examination, 12 lead electrocardiography, and measurement of troponin concentration are the essential diagnostic tools. |
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| Such granulae have been considered by Becker as a diagnostic feature of this species. |
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| The appeal aims to raise funds needed for new diagnostic and treatment equipment for the hospital. |
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| The main difference is in the stelliplanate elements, which are diagnostic for this species. |
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| Physicians cite diagnostic uncertainty, time pressure, and patient demand as the primary reasons for their tendency to overprescribe antibiotics. |
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| This occurred 10 days after a diagnostic laparoscopy for which she had had a laryngeal mask airway inserted. |
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| The databank used standardised diagnostic criteria during the study and linkage to the individual original obstetric case notes. |
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| Various definitions of the lipodystrophy syndrome exist and different diagnostic tools are used. |
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| These waiting lists are for diagnostic procedures, treatments, and dietetic counselling, to name just a few. |
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| A standard necropsy protocol with agreed diagnostic criteria was used to ensure consistent classification. |
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| The only diagnostic characters the type species has are the straight anterior border with a central raised area and a tapered glabella. |
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| Reliance solely on the conventional diagnostic approach will overlook many people who could benefit from thyroid-replacement therapy. |
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| Even a pronounced hippus may be physiological and does not necessarily require extensive diagnostic investigations. |
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| The diagnostic utility of serodiagnostic methods applied to the blood samples in patients with EPTB is controversial. |
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| Typically, silicification in red wood specimens is so complete that diagnostic woody textures are poorly preserved or missing. |
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| These early sauropods, however, had not yet evolved the tightly arched arrangement of metacarpals diagnostic of neosauropods. |
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| The diagnostic workup of a child with back pain should always commence with a proper history and physical exam. |
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| Anyone who has prolonged hiccups, however, should have a diagnostic workup to rule out a serious medical condition. |
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| We present a case in which the pressure-volume curve proved invaluable in the diagnostic workup of a patient. |
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| Information used to code the injury is obtained from surgical findings or diagnostic workups. |
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| The patient underwent a diagnostic workup that included a colonoscopy and computed tomographic scan. |
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| The diagnostic workup begins with a thyroid-stimulating hormone level test. |
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| The technique consists of establishing an invertibility-based fault detectability condition for the diagnostic model. |
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| The present case was a diagnostic challenge because the dominant feature of the lesion was florid giant cell proliferation. |
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| The duck feather did not contain diagnostic characters for species identification. |
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| These women have to be identified with a variety of preoperative and intraoperative diagnostic procedures of limited accuracy. |
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| A large number of individuals who do not meet diagnostic criteria for alcoholism are, nonetheless, heavy problem drinkers. |
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| It comprises a confusingly large and heterogeneous array of techniques, with both therapeutic and diagnostic approaches. |
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| The clinical presentation and diagnostic approach greatly depend on the type of malformation that is present. |
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| Blood smears can detect infection by these hematozoa, but are thought to have low diagnostic sensitivity. |
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| There have been many recent proposals of new diagnostic techniques for chronic exertional compartment syndrome. |
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| Nitrates often are used in emergency treatment of acute chest pain, but relief with nitrates is an uncertain diagnostic and prognostic sign. |
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| If there are any diagnostic doubts, patients should be referred for evaluation by magnetic resonance imaging or arthroscopy. |
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| This advanced nucleic acid amplification test is rapidly gaining importance in diagnostic microbiology. |
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| You may undergo a battery of diagnostic tests and try a variety of treatment methods. |
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| Keep in mind, your problem is a recognized diagnostic condition among all respectable physicians. |
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| Even so, the characteristic appearance of demilunes is nonetheless a useful diagnostic for identifying sero-mucous glands. |
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| But there is one diagnostic teaser you can use to try and sort this out for this particular situation. |
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| The identification of this taxon at locality 1 is based upon a highly distinctive tabular horn and diagnostic trunk vertebrae. |
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| The positions of primers used for PCR amplification and sequencing and the diagnostic PstI site are indicated. |
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| Presence of inclusions may be described, although they are not generally considered diagnostic. |
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| The endemic Australian genera are closely related and few seed and fruit characters are diagnostic at the generic level. |
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| Grey and black mudrocks in the Annascaul Formation have yielded diagnostic palynomorph assemblages indicative of an Early Ordovician age. |
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| The misbelief that this screening programme is fully diagnostic undermines the importance of the programme evaluators. |
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| Blood-streaked sputum deserves the same diagnostic consideration as blood alone. |
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| Specimens showing a distinct recognizable set of diagnostic features were defined as morphotypes and documented photographically. |
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| Bright yellow or orange fluorescence in response to NP is considered diagnostic for flavonoids. |
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| Most pets that have demodectic mange are young, which is a big aid in the diagnostic process. |
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| Staff in the hospitals and diagnostic practices also became resentful, and many resigned. |
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| Nucleotides diagnostic for the P1 and P7 haplotypes are in black and gray boxes, respectively. |
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| Diurnal water table fluctuations can be considered a diagnostic indicator of groundwater consumption by phreatophytes at most sites. |
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| These diagnostic failures were not malpractice, but the fallibility of humans and machines. |
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| The availability of diagnostic modalities such as scintigraphy and MRI has also been beneficial. |
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| However, this improved prognosis is seen only when one finds the complete constellation of diagnostic features. |
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| All eyes were on Swindon's flagship hospital for the topping out ceremony of the diagnostic and treatment centre. |
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| Using ICP-MS, he determined which elements were most diagnostic of a wine's region of origin. |
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| As with all raninids, many of the diagnostic features of this genus are found in the fronto-orbital region. |
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| These clades are labeled together with four diverse MSY1 codes from each lineage to indicate the diagnostic minisatellite structures. |
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| This use of medication is different from the more traditional use to address Axis I diagnostic symptoms. |
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| They also gave each child a full eye examination using established diagnostic examination procedures and tests. |
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| The authors discuss clinical presentation of disease and diagnostic tests used to identify them. |
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| Further studies are needed using diagnostic criteria and treatment protocols that are representative of community practice. |
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| Special stains for fungus and acid-fast bacteria are negative, although culture is the more definitive diagnostic test. |
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| Most psychiatrists would recognise the symptoms as being diagnostic of the disorder. |
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| No blood findings are characteristic and the chest X ray alone is not diagnostic. |
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| Immunostains for WT1 protein and the characteristic translocation are diagnostic of this tumor. |
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| In this sense, literary and cultural criticism can be a useful diagnostic instrument. |
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| The presence of an increased number of triplet repeat sequences is diagnostic for some single gene disorders. |
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| The same diagnostic delay led to 64 patients having more radical treatment than necessary. |
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| Presence of cardiomegaly on the chest radiograph may be the only diagnostic clue and echocardiography may reveal pericardial effusion. |
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| The characteristic diagnostic feature of Hartnup disorder is a dramatic neutral hyperaminoaciduria. |
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| Become fully informed consumers, knowledgeable enough to challenge doctors who make questionable diagnostic calls. |
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| The characteristic electromyographic changes of dermatomyositis if present can be diagnostic of dermatomyositis muscle damage. |
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| Detection is diagnostic of myocardial damage in patients admitted with suspected acute coronary syndromes and indicates an unfavourable outcome. |
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| Major ophthalmological textbooks list several signs and symptoms as being diagnostic for the cause of acute infectious conjunctivitis. |
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| The cause of Kawasaki disease is unknown, and consequently there is no diagnostic test. |
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| Normalisation of symptoms and diagnostic confusion and are likely to apply to illness behaviour in general. |
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| The diagnostic workup, including imaging studies, was negative for identifying the source of sepsis. |
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| If this fails, or the patient has severe or atypical symptoms, other diagnostic measures are indicated. |
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| A positive screen indicates that the pregnancy is at a greater risk and further diagnostic testing needs to be offered. |
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| Because a key species diagnostic character is the nature of aboral cup plate sculpturing, this specimen cannot be identified. |
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| Combination products will bring new and exciting benefits to both diagnostic and therapeutic medicine. |
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| Therefore, new diagnostic techniques with significantly improved sensitivity and specificity are required. |
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| Clinical history can be unreliable as a diagnostic indicator of latex allergy because of confounding variables. |
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| Compact discs may soon serve as diagnostic tools to be used in doctor's offices, or even at home. |
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| Pneumatic otoscopy and tympanometry are useful diagnostic tools for managing otitis media with effusion. |
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| The initial laboratory results indicated a diagnostic triad of thrombocytopenia, hemolytic anemia, and acute renal failure. |
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| The authors have put forward a concept of identifying specific protein subunits which are immunogenic and using them as diagnostic markers. |
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| Second, the diagnostic tests used including cardiac fluoroscopy and cardio kymographic stress tests are not routinely used any longer. |
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| A diagnostic paracentesis was performed and revealed blood and blood clot, consistent with a resolving hematoma. |
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| A rare, lethal disease with painful treatment, on the other hand, requires a diagnostic tool with very few false positives and negatives. |
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| Have chest pain units led to any improvement in diagnostic accuracy and clinical outcome? |
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| A knowledge of age-dependent physiology and clinical symptomatology will improve diagnostic accuracy. |
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| It will feature a 40-bed hospital as well as a 104-bed nursing home, diagnostic centre, sports injury clinic and convalescent homes. |
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| Physicians have few diagnostic tools to detect the scars and growths of endometriosis. |
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| An exercise test should end when diagnostic criteria have been reached or when the patient's symptoms and signs dictate. |
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| Cultures of fluid and biopsy tissue are the diagnostic methods most likely to yield positive results. |
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| Many terminally ill patients are unable to tolerate a full diagnostic assessment. |
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| Since prostate cancer often has no early warning signs, early diagnostic testing can be critical. |
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| With experience, the disorder may be diagnosed with confidence on initial presentation or after a period of observation and minimal diagnostic testing. |
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| A second diagnostic indication involves the injection of a local anesthetic to confirm the presumptive diagnosis through symptom relief of the affected body part. |
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| Demonstrations in action will illustrate the importance of sociometry in developing diagnostic and intervention tools, as well as enhancing group dynamics. |
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| The device was scuttling over the crates in the cargo bay, making a few routine diagnostic checks, when its sensors picked up some anomalous readings. |
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| She was encouraged in her painting in therapy sessions with Dr. Frederic Wertham, who was one of the first psychiatrists to use art therapy for diagnostic purposes. |
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| In children's mental health, this has resulted in the creation of not only new diagnostic categories but whole new classes of disorder such as developmental neuropsychiatry. |
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| Imaging-guided aspiration of fluid collections is another diagnostic aid. |
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| In diagnostic applications, aluminum filters are used to remove the undesirable portion of soft radiation which would be completely absorbed by the human body. |
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| A diagnostic instrument, the NET evaluates student's academic and social skills and generates individual profiles in seven subtest areas yielding over thirty different scores. |
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| The diagnostic studies confirmed the initial impression that the patient has an esophageal motility disorder, demonstrating classical findings of achalasia. |
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| Establishing the diagnosis of cryptogenic hemoptysis in the absence of a diagnostic code indicating a likely cause for hemoptysis might also introduce some bias. |
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| On Monday of last week, the ailing machine gave up the ghost leaving the hospital without the capacity to carry out even the most basic diagnostic tests. |
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| After the diagnostic thoracentesis, rabbits received procaine penicillin G, 200,000 U intramuscularly daily to prevent early death of the rabbits from overwhelming sepsis. |
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| Due to lack of diagnostic information, the patient received cancer therapy that included a lumpectomy, lymph node dissection, and radiation therapy. |
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| We certainly know that people who meet the diagnostic criteria for being a psychopath, have a very high risk of being violent and have a very high recidivist rate. |
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| In 1 patient, the capsular tissue was so thin and attenuated that the planned revision capsular shift procedure was aborted after a diagnostic arthroscopy. |
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| The joint venture entails Corgenix migrating the rapid diagnostic tests into a handheld device designed by Nanomix. |
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| Private clinics have popped up in several provinces, offering quicker diagnostic care for those willing to pay hundreds of dollars to jump the queue. |
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| A second written questionnaire was sent to 100 professionals involved in the provision of diagnostic services for people with autistic spectrum disorders. |
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| Scientific advances in diagnostic tools make it possible for experts to identify new diseases more quickly than anyone could have done in the past. |
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| Lab and diagnostic equipment is strewn about, rendered useless. |
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| The dsm V committee will not finalize its new diagnostic criteria until December. |
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| Injection of joints, bursae, tendon sheaths, and soft tissues of the human body is a useful diagnostic and therapeutic skill for family physicians. |
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| Because the tests were conducted on corn grown in replicated experiments, they could determine if the diagnostic test level accurately matched the plant response. |
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| Iron deficiency requires a diagnostic workup to determine the underlying cause of the deficiency, medical intervention to correct it, and replacement iron therapy. |
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| Affluenza is not found in our diagnostic categories of mental illness and it is not even a construct that makes sense. |
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| It now provides facilities for maternal and infant care, along with diagnostic laboratories and an emergency blood bank. |
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| Choroidal tubercles, when present, can provide valuable diagnostic clues to life threatening forms of disseminated tuberculosis such as miliary tuberculosis. |
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| I ran the usual diagnostic tests and had the usual conversations and hurried importantly along the endless hospital corridors. |
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| The U content of these metamorphic baddeleyites is towards the low end of the range seen in igneous baddeleyite, but not sufficiently different to be diagnostic. |
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| Considerable effort has been expended at the interface between clinical medicine and scientific methods to achieve the maximum validity and usefulness of diagnostic tests. |
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| The diagnostic relevance of other techniques is under evaluation. |
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| In older patients with Parkinson's disease, changes in the tricuspid valve may be most diagnostic, because the aortic and mitral valves may show age-related changes. |
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| The severe inflammation is less common for intertrigo alone, and a likely incomplete response to antifungal treatment would prompt a search for other diagnostic possibilities. |
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| An 11 gauge vacuum assisted biopsy device is now available which, because it provides more tissue, increases the diagnostic yield when biopsying microcalcification. |
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| In WS, the three PAI loci are highly refractory to cleavage by either HpaII or MspI, diagnostic of dense CG and CCG methylation of the recognition site. |
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| Knowledge of such experiences is of diagnostic and therapeutic importance for a more comprehensive understanding of the patient's biosocial context. |
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| She also had an unusual history of experiencing numerous intussusceptions near her ileocecal valve, but diagnostic x-rays were unable to demonstrate this. |
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| He was one of the first clinical angiographers in Britain and he established a superb service, which he led with courtesy and diagnostic excellence. |
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| The office work-up depends on available diagnostic modalities. |
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| In the last decade, several new lines of evidence have emerged that have re-examined this issue using either new diagnostic modalities or research techniques. |
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| Several diagnostic modalities have been used for ectopic pregnancy, either alone or in combination, but none has been established as superior to others. |
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| The consequences of an incorrect diagnostic decision can be costly for both the child and the clinician, particularly if the wrong psychopharmacological agent is administered. |
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| Specialized diagnostic equipment is a computerized black box these days. |
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| Thus, there is no indisputable diagnostic evidence in the photograph to support Meert's claim that the unconsolidated material is a well developed paleosol. |
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| We have played a major role in clinical trials of therapy for Hepatitis C and multi-centre international studies of non-invasive diagnostic tests for liver fibrosis. |
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| To assess whether such an increase might be explained by a diagnostic shift of the abdominal wall defects, we analysed the time trends of omphalocele in these registries. |
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| I was salivating over the PC diagnostic tools and the POST-Probe, but I left COMDEX without purchasing the toolkit, deciding to make a considered decision later. |
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| Persons with at least one positive stool card were offered further diagnostic testing that most commonly included barium enema, flexible sigmoidoscopy or full colonoscopy. |
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| This would be part of a general move towards blending physiological information with the anatomical information provided by traditional, diagnostic images. |
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| Each is characterized by diagnostic pottery and metal types. |
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| Although unexplained weight loss in the elderly can have myriad causes, an undirected approach to laboratory tests and other diagnostic studies is rarely fruitful. |
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| In addition to nucleolar prominence, multiple nucleoli and nucleolar margination have also been suggested as diagnostic criteria for prostate cancer. |
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| Obstructive sleep apnea is a fairly common sleep disorder and comprises the major group of patients being admitted to the diagnostic sleep laboratories. |
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| A definite diagnosis was made when diagnostic criteria were fully met. |
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| These findings are characteristic and diagnostic of a follicular lymphoma. |
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| The presence of lymphocytes themselves was not considered diagnostic. |
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| An exact clinical pathological diagnosis is often difficult, while the demonstration of the specific fusion protein is diagnostic for these rare sarcomas. |
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| Infrared thermography is a non-invasive diagnostic technique that provides a method to visualize and quantify changes in skin surface temperature. |
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| However, these characters are diagnostic at higher taxonomic levels. |
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| When the diagnostic work-up in this patient revealed no obvious thrombogenic etiology, the presumptive diagnosis was an atheromatous embolic event. |
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| This is because the limits of the circumscription of an ICZN-taxon can only be approximated using the species and diagnostic characters listed by the author. |
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| Because the incidence of cerebral infarction is high in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy, diagnostic testing for coagulation disorders should be considered. |
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| Though significantly high titres indicate an acute infection, rise in titres of antibodies in serum samples collected one week apart is diagnostic. |
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| The slides stained with HE and our method were examined with a light microscope for the presence of urate crystals and diagnostic histologic features of gouty tophus. |
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| As I am going through the potential cancer diagnostic for my dad, this book has given us all in my family the soothing and peace we need in such a tough moment. |
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| It describes the diagnostic eras of shell shock, battle fatigue, and post-traumatic stress disorder in the particular political, cultural, and medical contexts of their time. |
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| It provides a powerful method in laser assessment and alignment, and provides a diagnostic tool for measuring optical surfaces and transmissive components. |
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| Supported lipid bilayers are popular as model systems for cell membranes and are promising for future applications in diagnostic devices and biomimetics. |
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| The actual treatment approach and philosophy is similar to acupuncture in its usage of the meridians and tsubo as well as diagnostic methods, but without the use of needles. |
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| Ian Macdonald became Professor of Midwifery in Glasgow in 1954 and used his elementary knowledge of radar, from his RAF days, to investigate ultrasonics as a diagnostic tool. |
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| Finally, cases that were deemed unacceptable by participants had a higher discordancy rate with respect to diagnostic series than did slides that were deemed acceptable. |
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| Four members of the Cytopathology Resource Committee simultaneously reviewed most concordant and least concordant cases for each diagnostic category. |
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| They stated that testing for Helicobacter pylori in dyspeptic patients provided additional diagnostic information in patients deemed to have a high risk of peptic ulcer. |
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| The car console combines the car phone and stereo with diagnostic, traffic and navigation data, and even location-based services such as hotel details or reservations. |
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| Perhaps the most diagnostic type is the clasp knife that is frequently found on eighteenth-century French sites throughout interior North America. |
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| Many antibodies used in diagnostic immunoassays are derived from rabbits. |
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| This has important applications in protein chromatography, immunoassays for medical diagnostic tests, development of biosensors, biotechnology, and biocatalysis. |
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| The former is considered to be among the diagnostic characteristics of that genus, and the latter is shared by most but not all species of Hyolithes. |
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| Always a good diagnostic about what the wingers hate and fear, eh? |
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| The annual report said that assessing the status of religious freedom often served as a helpful diagnostic for the overall health and stability of a nation. |
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| Intravenous pyelography has been the classic diagnostic test of choice. |
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| Additional prospective studies are necessary to establish the usefulness of this diagnostic modality to predict dystocia, so it is not recommended at this time. |
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| The greatest opportunity for cost savings is found in reprocessing critical devices, such as diagnostic cardiac catheters, forceps, and orthopedic burrs. |
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| Structural characters and call notes remain the most diagnostic traits. |
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| The ultrasonographer was an experienced certified professional with a graduate qualification in diagnostic ultrasound. |
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| Gluer, professor of medical physics in the department of diagnostic radiology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein in Kiel, Germany. |
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| Companion diagnostic tests are used to inform patient selection, dosing requirements, or susceptibility to side effects for a particular drug. |
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| Once crossed, the diagnostic catheter is replaced by a 6Fr thrombolysis infusion catheter with multiple side-holes. |
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| He said the doctor put a tongue depressor in his throat to begin his diagnostic tests. |
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| Application of rapid aetiological diagnostic methods on intraocular specimens in viral retinochoroiditis. |
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| The diagnostic criteria for RLS were updated in 2003 by the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group. |
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| The remaining 284 claims involved diagnostic laparoscopies, hernia repairs, appendectomies, and various gynecologic procedures. |
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| Astrology is a useful diagnostic tool enabling us to see strengths and weaknesses via the birth chart. |
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| Diagnostic devices include the prime hearing impairment diagnostic devices namely audiometers, otoscopes and tympanometers. |
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| The company will offer iDEN test sets that will enable the set-up, diagnostic troubleshooting, repair and maintenance of iDEN networks. |
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| The blue-gray, pruinose apothecia and green leprose thallus are good diagnostic features of this lichen. |
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| The diagnostic laboratories focus on urine toxicology and pharmacogenetic testing. |
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| Virtual 3D microscopy using multiplane whole slide images in diagnostic pathology. |
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| Previously, these proteins have been difficult to detect, and patient monitoring required a comprehensive series of diagnostic tests. |
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| In order for new prenatal diagnostic products to be competitive in the prenatal care market, they must have four attributes. |
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| The test is not diagnostic and a positive result is usually followed up with a diagnostic amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling test. |
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| This report is segmented by animal products, animal types, animal diagnostic market and animal genetics market. |
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