Ultrasound can identify obstruction and ductal dilatation and, in some cases, may be sufficient to diagnose cholangiocarcinoma.
On the other hand, cases 1 and 3 both received barium enema examinations which identified obstructions in the colon.
The equipment included a "virtual child," a three-dimensional computerized model used to simulate and identify potential obstructions to a child's airways, and a child mannequin that replicates the behavior of a living infant (it can be hooked up to a mechanical lung device to evaluate choking and suffocating hazards).
The transcribed interviews were analyzed to focally identify attitudinal obstructions related to three standard screening modalities (FOBT, Flexible Sigmoidoscopy, Colonoscopy) with the intent of deriving data useful in specifically tailoring CRCS promotions to each gender.
4 A number of studies have demonstrated that the IO is able to identify airway obstruction.
Diagnostic algorithms using a fixed cut-off to identify bronchial obstruction are expected to provide higher prevalence estimates in the elderly compared to algorithms using the LLN; in our data, however, this was true for the GOLD but not for the BTS classification.
Sublingual microcirculatory observations identified microcirculatory obstructions to be characteristic of septic patients who are resistant to therapy despite corrected systemic hemodynamics [ 25, 32, 33].
The remainder evaluated the accuracy for identifying airflow obstruction without explicitly considering the presence of symptoms.
In AKI, renal scintigraphy is usually of little value for the identification of the mechanism of renal dysfunction, although some patterns can be identified (ureteric obstruction, ischemia) [ 37].
Tobacco is considered one of the most important initial diagnostic characteristics for identifying chronic obstruction, and it is the major risk factor for COPD [ 44, 45].
