Sentence examples for primary diagnostic tools from inspiring English sources

In TB endemic countries, smear microscopy is the primary diagnostic tools to diagnose active TB patients.

Laboratory diagnostic algorithms changed considerably over the study period, particularly from the mid-1990s onwhens whighly-sensitivetive single and multiplex PCR assays began to replace highly-specific wet mount and Gram stain microscopy and bacteriological culture as primary diagnostic tools for gonorrhoea and trichomonas (Table S1).

Until now, it has not been used as a primary diagnostic tool but was applied mainly for the investigation of complex anomalies [117, 129, 130, 131, 132].   3.

This article describes a digital workflow using cone beam computed tomography imaging as the primary diagnostic tool in the virtual planning of the computer-guided surgery and fabrication of a maxillary interim complete removable dental prosthesis and mandibular interim implant-supported complete fixed dental prosthesis with computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing technology.

CE is therefore not the primary diagnostic tool for coeliac disease.

Mammograms are not the solution to everything, and certainly not perfect, but it is the primary diagnostic tool we have right now for early detection.

The primary diagnostic tool used up to the mid-1990s was the DSM-IIIR [25] and in 1994 this was superseded by the DSM-IV criteria [26] and in 2000 by the DSM-IV-TR [27].

EUS may be considered a primary diagnostic tool in these patients.

It is not a primary diagnostic tool in localising the tumour.

The primary diagnostic tool in audiology is the pure tone audiogram.

Corneal tomography attracted a lot of attention as the primary diagnostic tool for keratoconus [ 10– 10].