منابع مشابه
Performance of the “if in doubt, cut it out” rule for the management of nodular melanoma
BACKGROUND The recognition of nodular melanoma is clinically challenging, and the diagnostic accuracy of dermoscopy and confocal microscopy is lower than for superficial spreading melanoma. OBJECTIVES To test a management strategy consisting in the excision of any nodular lesion that cannot be confidently and precisely classified as a benign tumor after clinical and dermoscopic examination. ...
متن کاملBreasts, bellies, below, and beyond: body piercing jewelry and the transfer technique--when in doubt, don't necessarily take it out!
30 9 body piercing, or implants, have been practiced in become increasingly common to remove body jewelry for 31 10 societies across the world for thousands of years. In diagnostic imaging (computed tomography/magnetic reso32 11 recent years, these practices have become more common nance imaging) or surgical procedures. However, the ques33 12 and widespread, moving beyond what we might have pre...
متن کاملPatient of client? If in doubt, ask.
DO PEOPLE SEEKING HEALTH CARE prefer to be called “patients” or “clients”? To try and answer this question the author surveyed 101 people attending a back-pain clinic and found that most (74) preferred “patient.” Given the implicit assumptions inherent in the use of specific labels, the author advises clinicians to evaluate carefully the attitudinal implications of using a particular term and t...
متن کاملTake It or Leave It ?
This research examines the consumer’s decision whether to make a purchase. I propose one psychological process underlying this decision, namely, a metacognitive process I call preference testing. Specifically, when deciding whether to purchase a particular option, people observe whether they have tested the option against alternative options for purchase. Seeing they have considered a competing...
متن کاملDelirium Quantum Or, Where I Will Take Quantum Mechanics If It Will Let Me
Once again, I take advantage of the wonderfully liberal and tolerant mood Andrei Khrennikov sets at his yearly conferences by submitting a nonstandard paper for the proceedings. This pseudo-paper consists of excerpts drawn from two of my samizdats [Quantum States: What the Hell Are They? and Darwinism All the Way Down (and Probabilism All the Way Back Up) ] that I think best summarize what I am...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Anaesthesia
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0003-2409,1365-2044
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1985.tb10894.x