The study was conducted on 527 patients with SUI diagnosed on the basis of urodynamic studies.
Recurrence was diagnosed on the basis of imaging studies, mainly chest and abdominal computed tomography and bone scans, which were performed at 6- and 12-month intervals, respectively, during the first 2 years after surgery.
Probably, the study included patients diagnosed on the basis of chest radiographs or clinical symptoms, as L-J medium was not yet available.
All patients with cardiac sarcoidosis in this study were diagnosed on the basis of the revised Japanese Ministry of Health and Welfare Criteria, which requires a histologic or clinical diagnosis of extracardiac sarcoidosis, thereby limiting its utility in diagnosing isolated cardiac sarcoidosis [1].
Almost all patients included in this study were diagnosed on the basis of symptoms.
For the purpose of this study, CS was diagnosed on the basis of the presence of swollen limbs and history of limb compression according to the criteria described previously [ 16, 17].
Therefore, we divided the studies in one group diagnosed on a synovial fluid analysis and another group diagnosed on the ACR/colchicine criteria.
Erosion already has been documented or diagnosed on study models and on photographs [ 10, 13, 15], and this could be of particular value in cross-sectional and incidence studies as well as for the monitoring of individual cases.
Although our patients were symptomatic at the time of aspergilloma diagnosis, sinus aspergilloma may remain asymptomatic in 13.2 to 20% of patients and may be diagnosed on imaging studies obtained for another reason [ 26, 27].
During follow-up, 3046 thyroid cancer cases were diagnosed among the study subjects on average 15 years after the measurements.
