Several of its anatomical traits, like the long and robust forelimbs once thought to be diagnostic of birds, were actually common to a group of dinosaurs known as deinonychosaurs.
Mucocele formation is common in CF patients and its presence in children should be diagnostic of CF unless proven otherwise.
As Call et al. noted in their 2005 meta-analysis: "Unfortunately, no specific symptom or combination of symptoms is diagnostic of this common infection" [ 18].
Painless sores on the skin are diagnostic of leishmaniasis.
Furthermore, measures of anxiety and depression at a general population level in South Africa may be needed so that the diagnostic accuracy of common mental disorders among patients with anxiety and depression can be compared to those without these disorders.
This issue however, remains largely under-investigated and little is known on the diagnostic utility of common insulin sensitivity indices, and whether they even do better than non-laboratory-based determinants of insulin sensitivity, in SSA populations.
Can rapid, practical and reliable point of care diagnostic tests be designed for common causes of fever other than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV?
Based on the nationwide insurance database, diagnoses of injury and poisoning have been found to be the most common diagnostic categories (26.4% of all cases) for patients of emergency units in Taiwan [ 2], and the average incidence of acute spinal trauma in Taiwan has been calculated to be 61.61/100,000, and is similar in both genders (rate ratio of male to female: 0.99) [ 3].
The presence of PK-resistant PrP (PrPres) in a sample is a common diagnostic indicator of TSE infection [ 18].
Clinically, GGT activity in human serum is a common diagnostic indicator of several diseases including liver cancer, alcoholic hepatitis, disrupted bile formation, pancreatic cancer and other hepatic or biliary tract-associated diseases.
