Nurse's Guide to Diagnostic Procedures

A Guide to Radiological Procedures

A guide to radiological procedures

It is a pleasure to recommend the second edition of this book. I can only repeat what I have said about the first edition that it represents excellent value for money. I think the authors are to be congratulated on the content and presentation, and their bravery in publishing a book on techniques should not be under-estimated, as virtually every radiologist has an individual approach to each ex...

Diagnostic Procedures to Detect Chlamydia trachomatis Infections

The intracellular life style of chlamydia and the ability to cause persistent infections with low-grade replication requires tests with high analytical sensitivity to directly detect C. trachomatis (CT) in medical samples. Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) are the most sensitive assays with a specificity similar to cell culture and are considered the method of choice for CT detection. In...

Staff and patient absorbed doses due to diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures

Background: Annual patient effective dose equivalent can be considered as a quantitative physical parameter describing the activities performed in each nuclear medicine department. Annual staff dose equivalent could be also considered as a parameter describing the amount of radiation risk for performing the activities. We calculated the staff to patient dose equivalent ratio to be used as a phy...

Diagnostic procedures in sarcoidosis.

One hundred consecutive patients suspected of having sarcoidosis were examined by means of available diagnostic procedures and the results of the examinations were compared. While Kveim tests and/or lymphocyte transformation tests gave the most significant results in cases of less than two years' standing, a combination of these and organ biopsies is required for the diagnosis of cases of more ...