Fatigue and stress-related illnesses often become diagnoses of exclusion after extensive investigation. 'Tired all the time' is a frequent reason for referral to the endocrine clinic, the implicit question being--is there a subtle endocrine pathology contributing to the patient's symptoms? Often initial assessment suggests not but there are no clear data to address the question of whether overt...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 10 clinical tests that can be used in the diagnosis of greater trochanteric pain syndrome (GTPS) in women, and to compare these clinical tests to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty-eight participants with GTPS (49.5 ± 22.0 years) and 18 asymptomatic participants (mean age ± standard deviation [SD], 52.5 ± 22...

The beginnings of pathology Pathology is the study of deviation from normal health. It has been studied from the time when man first began to reason on the disorders which affected him. Its separation from medicine in general began with enquiry into the causes of disease and the early history of pathology has been described by Long.' During the 5000 years of Egyptian dynasties around three quar...

In addition to history (1), clinical examination (2) and imaging procedures (3), there are a variety of simple blood and urine tests which may detect pathology. This paper presents a description of the use of the tests most commonly used in hospitals and private practice together with some of the more specific investigations. The information provided has been drawn from two well known texts.(4)(5)

abstract   background: regarding the variety of tests present for detecting and also screening prostate cancer and also bearing in mind the advantages and disadvantages of these tests we decided to re-evaluate these tests (total prostate specific antigen and all of its modifications) in detecting prostate cancer in men with intermediate serum psalevels.   methods: following a cross sectional st...

Deficits in executive function and the relationship to frontal lesion load as detected on MRI were investigated in 42 multiple sclerosis patients. A battery of neuropsychological test examining executive skills including computerized tests of planning and spatial working memory was administered to all subjects. Performance on these tests was impaired in the patient group when compared with a gr...

The present work aims to contribute the study and development of methodologies for shrinkage tests self-compacting concrete (SCC) using addition polypropylene (PP) microfibers as a variable validate correlations between tests. objective this was evaluate, through area age at which cracks appeared, role PP fibers control pathology. Reference SCC traces with additions 6 mm 12 were created purpose...

UNLABELLED Immunohistochemistry (IHC) has been employed in the differential diagnosis of tumors. OBJECTIVE To assess the use of IHC in cases of head and neck tumor. METHOD This is a retrospective study of the cases included in the Cancer Registry of the institution. RESULTS IHC was used in 76 (11%) of 704 pathology tests. Most cases were carcinomas (85.80%), and 83.66% of them were squamo...