Consider sarcoidosis in patients with nephrocalcinosis, even if the chest roentgenogram is normal

the past hospitalization and its association with suicide attempts and ideation in patients with mdd and comparison with bmd (depressed type) group

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Renal impairment in sarcoidosis with special reference to nephrocalcinosis.

Utility of fiberoptic bronchoscopy in patients with hemoptysis and a nonlocalizing chest roentgenogram.

The need for fiberoptic bronchoscopy in the patient with hemoptysis and a normal or nonlocalizing chest roentgenogram remains a subject of debate. Currently, diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopy is recommended as the investigative procedure of choice. To develop predictors that identify the patient in whom fiberoptic bronchoscopy is most likely to be diagnostic, we reviewed our community's experi...

The significance of irregular opacities on the chest roentgenogram.

Scanty irregular opacities are not uncommonly observed on the chest roentgenogram in the absence of interstitial fibrosis of the lungs. In such circumstances the irregular opacities, when present, tend to be relatively scanty and seldom, if ever, exceed an ILO category of 1/1. They are found in association with cigarette smoking, especially when emphysema is also present. The development of irr...

Finding truth even if the crowd is wrong

Over a hundred years ago Galton reported on the uncanny accuracy of the median estimate of the weight of an ox, as judged by spectators at a country fair [1]. Since then, the notion that the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ is superior to any individual has itself become a piece of crowd wisdom, raising expectations that web-based opinion aggregation might replace expert judgment as a source of policy gui...