Proceedings: Carcinoembryonic antigen. Report of a screening study
Arteriovenous fistula masquerading as valvular heart disease
Immunodiagnosis of sexually transmitted disease.
Methods for detecting microbial antigens in clinical specimens offer an alternative to culture in the diagnosis of some sexually transmitted diseases. Developers of the immunologic methods are faced with a number of problems in evaluating the new tests. Traditionally, these tests are compared to culture as the "gold standard." Unfortunately, cultur...
Septate versus bicornuate uteri: errors in imaging diagnosis
Since two mullerian defects, the septate and bicornuate uteri, are no longer repaired by means of the same operative approach, an accurate preoperative diagnosis of these anomalies is now critical. A septum can be removed by means of hysteroscopic metroplasty. However, repair of a bicornuate uterus still requires abdominal surgery. Hysterosalpingog...
Accuracy of Chlamydia trachomatis antigen detection methods in a low-prevalence population in a primary care setting
We compared a direct fluorescent-antibody stain (DFA) and an enzyme immunoassay (EIA) with a standard cell culture technique for the detection of Chlamydia trachomatis infection in women in an urban family practice setting. We also evaluated a DFA sample in a commercial laboratory to determine the interlaboratory reliability of this test. There wer...
Treatable Abdominal Pathologic Conditions and Unsuspected Malignant Neoplasms at Autopsy in Veterans Who Received Mechan...
Study objectiveTo determine, in medical patients who received mechanical ventilation, the frequency and types of major unexpected diagnoses at autopsy that, if known before death, would probably have led to improved survival (class I errors) or substantively changed management but not survival (class IIB errors).DesignRetrospective cohort study.Set...
Variations in acromial ossification simulating infant abuse in victims of sudden infant death syndrome
A variation in ossification of the acromial process of the scapula is described. Postmortem radiographs, obtained in 78 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome, showed an ossific opacity adjacent to the acromial process in 10 infants (13%). This finding was noted bilaterally in six patients and unilaterally in four patients. No two ossicle...
Nonspecific Findings on MR Imaging
Although magnetic resonance (MR) imaging is highly sensitive for the detection of abnormalities of the musculoskeletal system, changes in marrow and soft-tissue signal intensity are often nonspecific, and benign conditions may be mistaken for malignancy. In an effort to identify the cause of this type of misdiagnosis in MR examinations, the MR scan...
Malignant mesenchymoma of the thigh
Une masse cervicale de diagnostic souvent errone: le chemodectome carotidien.
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