Familiarity with some of the aortic, coronary, pericardial, and pulmonary diagnoses, and the sometimes subtle imaging findings will help to suggest alternative diagnoses, thereby avoiding diagnostic delay.
Apart from correctly defining the extent of the lesion, the radiologist has an important role in avoiding diagnostic delays and misdiagnosis.
In polytrauma patients, to avoid diagnostic step that could result in the loss of valuable time and the delay of therapeutic maneuvers, the use of a prompt diagnostic protocols that ensures high sensitivity, specificity and diagnostic accuracy are need [33 35].
Radiologists say that improvements in hip M.R.I.'s are a good reason to avoid diagnostic arthroscopy.
First, we remark the importance of using headache classification to avoid diagnostic errors.
Moreover, ultrasonography represents a noninvasive technique that enables rapid preoperative identification of the parasitic origin of the nodules, thus avoiding unnecessary diagnostic delays.
Cryptococcosis of the lumbar vertebra should be considered in the differential diagnosis of patients with lumbar vertebral masses to avoid missed diagnosis, misdiagnosis and diagnostic delay.
Although cryptococcosis of the lumbar vertebra is extremely rare, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis for patients with lumbar vertebral masses to avoid missed diagnosis, misdiagnosis and diagnostic delay.
When people are subjected to poor treatment, diagnostic delay and unhealthy environments because of the color of their skin, "race" impairs their health.
Endometriosis is characterized by considerable diagnostic delay.
