We herein report, together with a review of the relevant literature, a clinical case of a patient who had been admitted to hospital for otorrhea, which was differentially diagnosed by skull-base osteomyelitis and improved by arthrocentesis.
For diagnosis by gene expression profile, conventional binary classifiers are not sufficient because the number of tissue types to be differentially diagnosed is usually greater than two.
Infection, heart failure and tumour progression can be differentially diagnosed and excluded using additional radiological clinical data.
Paget's disease, hypercementosis, fibrous dysplasia, and early stage malignant bone tumor were differentially diagnosed and excluded.
The patient was differentially diagnosed with osteoarthritis of the hip or idiopathic necrosis of the femoral head.
GSTs have been found to be differentially regulated by dehydration (Bianchi et al. 2002).
On one hand, it is expected that disease conditions such as cancer may be diagnosed early by analyzing complex protein mixtures in easily accessible human blood (serum or plasma), in which proteins induced by cancer may be differentially cleaved, secreted, leaked out, and therefore differentially detected from normal healthy conditions.
Impetigo is generally diagnosed by observation.
Encephaloceles are usually diagnosed by ultrasonography.
Hemorrhoids are typically diagnosed by physical examination.
