Immunocap ISAC as an important diagnostic tool in rhino‐sinusitis

Immunocap ISAC as an important diagnostic tool in rhino-sinusitis

Results The patient (smoker) complained on a variety of symptoms that were bothering her for more than 3 years: headaches, significant fatigue, nasal blockage, breathlessness on exercise and occasionally at rest. There were no ocular symptoms. She had several courses of antibiotics during this period with slight improvement. Careful history revealed progressive deterioration in her condition; t...

Urine microscopy--an important diagnostic tool.

With the development of a wide range of blood tests and multiple test strips (dipsticks) for testing urine, urine microscopy often seems to be forgotten both in everyday use and in the literature on diagnosis of kidney and urinary tract disease. However, existing European guidelines stress the importance of urine examination, including the use of microscopy (1). In the following, a brief summar...

Urinary sediment: still an important diagnostic tool.

This special issue of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine is based on the lectures delivered at the international symposium “Urinary sediment: still an important diagnostic tool”, which took place in Rome on the 4th and 5th of December 2014, thanks to the full support of “A. Menarini Diagnostics”. The symposium was the realization of a project which I conceived years ago on the convictio...

A Study of Imprint Cytology with Cytomorphometry as an Important Diagnostic Tool in Oropharyngolaryngeal Lesions

Objective. Non-neoplastic and neoplastic mucosal lesions from orophayngolaryngeal region constitute a major health problem in developing countries. Carcinoma of this region is the commonest neoplasm in male in our country. The study was aimed at testing for the accuracy of cytological diagnosis as well as morphometry analysis and compared with histopathology in order to see whether the correlat...

Tourism as an Economic Develpment Tool