scholarly journals Comparative assessment of the effectiveness of multiparametric ultrasound techniques in the differential diagnosis of solid kidney formations

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2S) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
R. A. Kadyrleev ◽  
S. S. Bagnenko ◽  
E. A. Busko ◽  
E. V. Kostromina ◽  
L. N. Shevkunov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Multiparametric Ultrasound

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scholarly journals Multiparametric ultrasound diagnosis of metastatic and lymphoproliferative changes in lymph nodes in primary-multiple malignant tumors, including breast cancer and lymphoma

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Kovaleva ◽  
T. Yu. Danzanova ◽  
G. T. Sinyukova ◽  
P. I. Lepedatu ◽  
E. A. Gudilina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Lymph Nodes ◽  
Shear Wave ◽  
Malignant Tumors ◽  
Shear Wave Elastography ◽  
Doppler Imaging ◽  
Contrast Enhanced Ultrasound ◽  
Contrast Enhanced ◽  
Multiparametric Ultrasound

In this article, based on two clinical examples, the possibilities of multiparametric ultrasound in the differential diagnosis of metastatic and lymphoproliferative changes in lymph nodes in primary-multiple malignant tumors, including breast cancer and lym - phoma, are evaluated. Multiparameteric ultrasound includes B-mode, color and energy Doppler imaging, strain elastography, shear wave elastography and contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS). Standardization and reproducibility of these ultrasound techniques will allow to objectify the study, obtaining specific indicators of shear wave velocity in the zones of interest and specific signs of contrast enhancement, which can be used as impor tant differential diagnostic tool in oncology.

The Diagnostics of Injustice

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-48
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Donahue-Ochoa
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
John Rawls ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Classification Of Diseases

Chapter 1 argues that careful diagnosis of injustices is central to understanding what to do about them. This requires differential diagnosis: the comparative assessment of different diagnoses of injustice. Yet present-day political theory treats such diagnostics as only a marginal task, even though past political theory considered it central. Chapter 1 undermines this marginalization, by tracing it to the tradition begun by John Rawls and its faulty practice of non-ideal theory. It argues that by the tradition’s own principles, non-ideal theory cannot succeed without such diagnostics. The chapter then recuperates such diagnostics by describing the leading theories of systematic injustice. These theories constitute the closest thing we have to a nosology (the classification of diseases) and pathology (the study of disease in general) of systematic injustice. If we wish to see political theory once again take seriously the differential diagnosis of injustices, then it will have to take these theories seriously.

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF THE FEATURES AND DISADVANTAGES OF THE OPERATIONAL COMPONENT OF THINKING IN OLDER PRESCHOOLERS WITH MENTAL RETARDATION AND MENTAL RETARDATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (34) ◽  
Author(s):  
S.N KASHTANOVA ◽  
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I.N GOLOVANOVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Mental Retardation ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Comparative Studies ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Operational Characteristics ◽  
Operational Component

This article is devoted to the study of the main features and disadvantages of the operational component of thinking in children of older preschool age with mental retardation and mental retardation. Currently, there are not enough detailed comparative studies that state the features and disadvantages of the operational characteristics of thinking in children of these categories. The relevance of obtaining comparative research content is determined by the practical tasks of differential diagnosis and building the correct educational route for children. In the course of the present study, identical and distinctive characteristics in the development of operations of analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization, classification and abstraction of children with ASD and mental retardation are recorded. The results obtained determine the prospects for using these data in the methodological support of preschool children in preparing for school.

Tumor Diagnosis

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 262-265
Author(s):  
Bruce Mackay
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Transmission Electron Microscopy ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Light Microscopy ◽  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Ultrastructural Study ◽  
Diagnostic Procedures ◽  
Specific Diagnosis ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Microscopic Diagnosis

The broadest application of transmission electron microscopy (EM) in diagnostic medicine is the identification of tumors that cannot be classified by routine light microscopy. EM is useful in the evaluation of approximately 10% of human neoplasms, but the extent of its contribution varies considerably. It may provide a specific diagnosis that can not be reached by other means, but in contrast, the information obtained from ultrastructural study of some 10% of tumors does not significantly add to that available from light microscopy. Most cases fall somewhere between these two extremes: EM may correct a light microscopic diagnosis, or serve to narrow a differential diagnosis by excluding some of the possibilities considered by light microscopy. It is particularly important to correlate the EM findings with data from light microscopy, clinical examination, and other diagnostic procedures.

The Preschool Stuttering Screen for Health Care Professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Joseph Donaher ◽  
Christina Deery ◽  
Sarah Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Developmental Profile

Healthcare professionals require a thorough understanding of stuttering since they frequently play an important role in the identification and differential diagnosis of stuttering for preschool children. This paper introduces The Preschool Stuttering Screen for Healthcare Professionals (PSSHP) which highlights risk factors identified in the literature as being associated with persistent stuttering. By integrating the results of the checklist with a child’s developmental profile, healthcare professionals can make better-informed, evidence-based decisions for their patients.

The Effect of Sensori-Neural Hearing Loss on Threshold-Duration Functions

1968 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 842-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. N. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Time Constant ◽  
Present Series ◽  
Auditory Disorders ◽  
Threshold Duration

Previous findings on the threshold for tones as a function of their duration have suggested that such functions may be systematically affected by sensori-neural hearing losses of cochlear origin. The present series of investigations was designed to explore this relation further and to determine also whether the amount of hearing loss present has any effect upon the results which are obtained. Preliminary studies were also carried out on a conductively impaired listener to indicate whether hearing losses of this type affect the threshold-duration function. The results indicate that the threshold-duration function is systematically affected by sensori-neural hearing losses of cochlear origin. This effect is manifested by a progressive shortening of the time constant relating threshold to duration and is not uniquely related to the amount of hearing loss present. The results obtained from the conductively impaired listener suggested that this type of hearing loss has no effect on the threshold-duration function, thereby implying that such functions may contribute significantly to the differential diagnosis of auditory disorders.

POST-TRANSFUSION PURPURA VS. HEPARIN-INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA: DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Araujo ◽  
J. J. Sa ◽  
V. Araujo ◽  
M. Lopes ◽  
L. M. Cunha-Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Heparin Induced Thrombocytopenia

A Historical Review of Complex Regional Pain Syndrome in the “Guides Library”

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert J. Barth
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome ◽  
Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy ◽  
International Association ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
Pain Syndrome ◽  
Sixth Edition

Abstract Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a controversial, ambiguous, unreliable, and unvalidated concept that, for these very reasons, has been justifiably ignored in the “AMA Guides Library” that includes the AMAGuides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides), the AMA Guides Newsletter, and other publications in this suite. But because of the surge of CRPS-related medicolegal claims and the mission of the AMA Guides to assist those who adjudicate such claims, a discussion of CRPS is warranted, especially because of what some believe to be confusing recommendations regarding causation. In 1994, the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) introduced a newly invented concept, CRPS, to replace the concepts of reflex sympathetic dystrophy (replaced by CRPS I) and causalgia (replaced by CRPS II). An article in the November/December 1997 issue of The Guides Newsletter introduced CRPS and presciently recommended that evaluators avoid the IASP protocol in favor of extensive differential diagnosis based on objective findings. A series of articles in The Guides Newsletter in 2006 extensively discussed the shortcomings of CRPS. The AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, notes that the inherent lack of injury-relatedness for the nonvalidated concept of CRPS creates a dilemma for impairment evaluators. Focusing on impairment evaluation and not on injury-relatedness would greatly simplify use of the AMA Guides.

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