Even if CT should be more accurate, US is nearly as good in experienced hands and, given the lack of ionizing radiation, is the preferred examination in children, particularly if equivocal results are followed up by CT [28].
In daily practice, pneumonia diagnosis is based on clinical presentation through patient history and physical exam, plus radiological imaging commonly chest X-ray (and infrequently CT scan) that may help confirm the diagnosis particularly with equivocal clinical status.
It can be useful in specific cases particularly with equivocal conventional imaging.
Campbell argues that "modern" thinking — particularly the slippery, equivocal moves of postmodernists and post-structuralists — has eroded truth.
However, existing evidence for this incentive salience hypothesis in vision is equivocal, particularly in naturalistic circumstances, and little is known about underlying neural systems.
However, much of the epidemiological evidence for increased health benefits following improvements in the quality of drinking water has been equivocal, particularly in low-income settings (Clasen 2006; Waddington 2009; Cairncross 2010).
Therefore, MRI should be used for the characterisation of masses in those patients where the results of ultrasound are equivocal, particularly if the markers are normal, or in younger patients where conservative, rather than radical, surgery is contemplated.
[F]FDG PET/CT can give valuable information in patients with breast cancer, particularly in scenarios with equivocal findings on other imaging and regarding disease progression.
Their functional importance, however, has been critically reviewed, particularly in light of equivocal or negative outcomes in clinical trials in which CD4 T cells have been specifically targeted [ 1, 3, 4].
By reducing the number of cases with equivocal diagnosis, particularly in a common setting of limited clinical information and/or suboptimally processed specimen lacking the frozen tissue, the widespread use of these immunostains has the potential to reduce the number of patients receiving inappropriate treatment.
