BACKGROUND Tubal patency tests are routinely performed in the diagnostic work-up of subfertile patients, but it is unknown whether these diagnostic tests add value beyond the information obtained by medical history taking and findings at physical examination. We used individual patient data meta-analysis to assess this question. METHODS We approached authors of primary studies for data sets c...

OBJECTIVE To examine the diagnostic accuracy of standard clinical tests for the shoulder in recreational athletes with activity related pain. DESIGN Cohort study with index test of clinical examination and reference standard of arthroscopy. SETTING Sports Medicine clinic in Sheffield, U.K. PARTICIPANTS 101 recreational athletes (82 male, 19 female; mean age 40.8 +/- 14.6 years) over a six...

Results from a simple test of post-recovery recognition of objects presented immediately after intracarotid sodium amytal (ISA) injection were compared with those obtained using the 'Montreal' anterograde memory test procedure of post-recovery recognition of items presented later after injection in 16 patients with unilateral temporal lobe pathology undergoing routine bilateral ISA testing prio...

a seventeen-years old woman was presented with infertility and primary amenorrhea. she had normal stature, femate phenotype and normal development of breasts, external genitalia, vagina and cervix. pelvic examination showed a large lobulated mass. on sonography there was a mass with probable origin of ovary. paraclinic tests were carried out. gonadotropins were in postmeno pausal limits. alpha ...

BACKGROUND A prospective study was established to assess the sensitivity of the newly described Bell-van Riet (BvR) test for isolated AC pathology, and compare with 4 commonly used clinical tests. MATERIALS AND METHODS The BvR test is essentially the cross-adduction test, with the addition of attempted elevation against resistance. In a positive test, this results in some pain and the inabili...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to assess the usefulness of bedside examination for screening of vestibular and balance system for occupational medicine purposes. Study group comprised 165 patients referred to Audiology and Phoniatric Clinic due to vestibular and/or balance problems. Caloric canal paresis of 19% was the cut off value to divide patients into 43 caloric-positive vestibular su...

OBJECTIVES Team-based learning (TBL) has been integrated into undergraduate and medical education curricula in many institutions. However, TBL has not been widely introduced into postgraduate medical education. Our study aimed to measure the effect of TBL on promoting learning and teamwork in the setting of pathology residency training. METHODS Four TBL sessions were held and individual and g...