"Defensive medicine" is so prevalent that it has become part of standard protocol — for example, mandatory pre-operative exams even where the patient record is current, and even for minor procedures.
Most patients have a post-operative exam two to three days after surgery.
Have a pre-operative exam with your surgeon, usually a day or two before the surgery.
All pre-operative CT exams were retrospectively reviewed by two chest radiologists who were unaware of the tumour histology subtype, origin and patient outcome.
Per operative pathology exam allowed to check glial tumour diagnosis with samples obtained either from open-sky surgery or stereotactic biopsies.
There were 15 males and 24 females, ranging in age from 2-13 yeand and with an average age of 4.7 years and median age of 4 years at the time of pre-operative CT exams.
Correlate adenoid size as determined by lateral neck radiographs and intra-operative mirror exam.
Assess the correlation of endoscopic findings to the degree of adenoid hypertrophy seen on intra-operative mirror exam.
In addition to a complete pre-operative physical exam, each patient underwent a psychological evaluation designed to measure optimism, depression, neuroticism, and self-esteem.
Tissue harvesting and preparation Per-operative pathology exam permitted the checking of glial tumour diagnosis with samples obtained from either open-sky surgery or stereotactic biopsies.
Classification of injury type was based on review of complete patient medical records, including history, physical exam, definitive diagnoses, radiologic studies, intra-operative examination, and pathological examination.
