The Backache Index (BAI) is applied to patients with low back pain (LBP) in order to help therapists, doctors, and surgeons perform physical examinations easily.
Most importantly, identical scanning locations can be adjusted over time, and thus, follow-up examinations easily performed [10].
Careful examination ought easily to have exposed these obvious counterfeiting devices.
This examination is easily made, so far as the evolution of a reaction or of a receiving mechanism is concerned, in all predators trying to find their prey and in all prey animals attempting to escape an approaching predator.
The pUS examination could easily be performed in 5 minutes during a routine consultation in the GPs office.
Morphological examination can easily be performed by using May-Grunwald Giemsa staining to determine the mod of cell death [ 28– 31].
Radiological examination is easily accessible and allows determining with a relatively high accuracy both the length of the x-rayed bone and its possible angular deformity.
Histologic examination can easily differentiate mucosal lentiginosis from melanoma, but melanocytic nevi superimposed on a background of anogenital LS, both clinically and histologically, may mimic malignant melanoma [ 59].
The contrast agent is simply administered via the usual peripheral venous access or via a central venous catheter, and the examination can easily be repeated, without jeopardizing renal function.
