Signs and SymptomsGI CancersNon-Hodgkin's LymphomaCeliac DiseaseAdditionally, when initial serologic screening is negative, establishing the diagnosis may require duodenal biopsies.6,13 All diagnostic testing should be performed while the patient remains on a gluten-co...
A Dictionary of Medical Diagnosis. A Treatise on the Signs and Symptoms Observed in Diseased Conditions. For the use of Medical Practitioners and Students.This work aims to occupy a hitherto unoccupied field; it is a dictionary of "the language of signs as presented in the bodies of our ...
populations and receive a high level of medical interventions at the end of life.Implications for Practice - Nurses are well positioned to identify many of the signs, symptoms, and characteristics found in this review and can play a key role in identifying when a person is nearing the end of...
One hundred ninety-five patients with odontalgia, but without overt signs of infection, were enrolled in a prospective, double-blind, randomized clinical trial. Data included dental diagnosis, pain characteristics, presence of caries and restorations, presence and size of periapical radiolucencies and...
Background: This study evaluated the prevalence of the signs and symptoms of temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) among patients with TMD symptoms.Methods: Between September 2011 and December 2011, 243 consecutive patients (171 females, 72 males, mean age 41 years) who were referred to the Depa...
Clinical pediatric neurology: a signs and symptoms approachSpinal Cord 48, 899 (December 2010). doi:10.1038/sc.2010.38Author: R M S Riel-Romerodoi:10.1016/S0025-6196(12)65324-5Yan-GoFrisca LElsevier Inc.Journal of Paediatrics & Child Health...
The symptom ontology was designed around the guiding concept of a symptom being: “A perceived change in function, sensation or appearance reported by a patient indicative of a disease”. Understanding the close relationship of Signs and Symptoms, where
This Consensus Statement from an international, multidisciplinary workshop sponsored by the Pituitary Society offers evidence-based graded consensus recommendations and key summary points for clinical practice on the diagnosis and management of prolactinomas. Epidemiology and pathogenesis, clinical presentation of...
When I was a tutor on theSetting up as a freelance translatorcourse run by the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI), I tried to instil in my students the importance of preparing for the unexpected. Always have a backup plan in place – I advised them – you never know when yo...
2. Diagnoses and their effects As diagnoses are powerful, their use warrants careful consideration. A diagnosis is defined as an identification of a bodily or mental condition, e.g., by symptoms, paraclinical signs, or markers, which are considered to be of disadvantage or harm to a person'...