Office Techniques for Diagnosing Skin Disease

Nail Sampling techniques for Diagnosing of onychomycosis-Section 10

The clinical suspicion of onychomycosis based on appearance of the nails, requires fungal culture for confirmation. The unfamiliar terminologies used in reporting culture results leads to misinterpretation and hamper treatment decision. Accurate laboratory diagnosis of onychomycosis depends on the quality of sample collection, and reporting by microbiologist. Site selection for sampling depends...

New imaging techniques for diagnosing coronary artery disease.

New tomographic cardiovascular imaging tests, such as intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS), coronary computed tomography (CT) angiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can be used to assess atherosclerotic plaques for the characterization and early staging of coronary artery disease (CAD). Although IVUS images have very high resolution capable of revealing very early preclinical CAD, it...

Techniques for Diagnosing Software Faults

Axillary skin biopsy: Diagnostic for Lafora’s disease

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Diagnosing Common Benign Skin Tumors.

Patients will experience a wide range of skin growths and changes over their lifetime. Family physicians should be able to distinguish potentially malignant from benign skin tumors. Most lesions can be diagnosed on the basis of history and clinical examination. Lesions that are suspicious for malignancy, those with changing characteristics, symptomatic lesions, and those that cause cosmetic pro...