Diagnostic Errors

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Cautionary Tale: Florid Splenic γδ T-cell Proliferation and False-Positive T-cell Clonality by PCR Leads to a Grave Misdiagnosis. 
  • A Misdiagnosed Atypical Case of Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Diagnosed by Computed Tomography Guided Spleen Biopsy. 
  • A case of mistaken identity: persistent sciatic artery stenosis as a cause of critical limb ischemia. 
  • A multicenter analysis of the ED diagnosis of pneumonia. 
  • A multiobserver study of the effects of including point-of-care patient photographs with portable radiography: a means to detect wrong-patient errors. 
  • A survey-based study of diagnostic and treatment concordance in standardized cases of cellulitis and pseudocellulitis via teledermatology. 
  • Accounting for nonignorable verification bias in assessment of diagnostic tests. 
  • Accuracy and interobserver variability of coronary cineangiography: a comparison with postmortem evaluation. 
  • Acute detection of ST-elevation myocardial infarction missed on standard 12-Lead ECG with a novel 80-lead real-time digital body surface map: primary results from the multicenter OCCULT MI trial. 
  • Acute pubic osteomyelitis. 
  • Adenosine deaminase type 2 deficiency masquerading as GATA2 deficiency: Successful hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Alzheimer disease with psychosis: excess cognitive impairment is restricted to the misidentification subtype. 
  • An analysis of the causes of adverse events from the Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 
  • Angiographic validation of the American College of Cardiology Foundation-the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Collaboration on the Comparative Effectiveness of Revascularization Strategies study. 
  • Are en face frozen sections accurate for diagnosing margin status in melanocytic lesions? 
  • Association of Diabetes With Central Corneal Thickness Among a Multiethnic Asian Population. 
  • Author response: Transient smartphone blindness: Relevance to misdiagnosis in neurologic practice. 
  • Basal cell carcinoma originating from a nevus sebaceus on the scalp of a 7-year-old boy. 
  • Biopsy first: Lessons learned from Cancer and Leukemia Group B (CALGB) 140503. 
  • CT utilization: the emergency department perspective. 
  • Carcinoembryonic antigen as an adjunct to determination of clinical stage in prostate cancer. 
  • Carcinoma of the larynx and hypopharynx: computed tomographic-histopathologic correlations. 
  • Cardiac imaging impaired by a silicone breast implant. 
  • Causes of errors in polyp detection at air-contrast barium enema examination. 
  • Characteristics of Detected and Missed Prostate Cancer Foci on 3-T Multiparametric MRI Using an Endorectal Coil Correlated With Whole-Mount Thin-Section Histopathology. 
  • Chemical burn misdiagnosed as brown recluse spider bite. 
  • Children with appendicitis on the US-Mexico border have socioeconomic challenges and are best served by a freestanding children's hospital. 
  • Clinical diagnostic reasoning. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Index of suspicion. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Taken out of context. 
  • Clinical problem-solving. Undercover and overlooked. 
  • Clinical problem-solving: costly errors. 
  • Clinicopathologic Features and Prognostic Impact of Lymph Node Involvement in Patients With Breast Implant-associated Anaplastic Large Cell Lymphoma. 
  • Cognitive errors and logistical breakdowns contributing to missed and delayed diagnoses of breast and colorectal cancers: a process analysis of closed malpractice claims. 
  • Common Resident Errors When Interpreting Computed Tomography of the Abdomen and Pelvis: A Review of Types, Pitfalls, and Strategies for Improvement. 
  • Comparison of optical coherence tomography in diabetic macular edema, with and without reading center manual grading from a clinical trials perspective. 
  • Complications of nonoperative and operative treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. 
  • Conflict of interest disclosures. 
  • Controlled evaluation of BacT/Alert standard aerobic and FAN aerobic blood culture bottles for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Cutaneous Angiosarcoma of the Eyelid Mimicking Morbihan Disease. 
  • Cystic pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: a clinicopathologic study. 
  • Cytologic features of adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified, in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Cytologic features of squamous cell carcinoma in conventional smears: comparison of cases that performed poorly with those that performed well in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Cytomegalovirus sialadenitis in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome: a potential diagnostic pitfall with fine-needle aspiration cytology. 
  • Decompression illness diagnosis and decompression study design. 
  • Detecting glaucoma progression from localized rates of retinal changes in parametric and nonparametric statistical framework with type I error control. 
  • Detection of dyslipoproteinemia with the use of plasma total cholesterol and triglyceride as screening tests. The Lipid Research Clinics Program Prevalence Study. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy and inter-rater reliability of 64-multislice 3D-CTA compared to intra-arterial DSA for intracranial aneurysms. 
  • Early undifferentiated connective tissue disease (CTD). VI. An inception cohort after 10 years: disease remissions and changes in diagnoses in well established and undifferentiated CTD. 
  • Effect of cardiac cycle on ultrasound assessment of endothelial function. 
  • Effect of improper scan alignment on retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements using Stratus optical coherence tomograph. 
  • Effect of signal strength and improper alignment on the variability of stratus optical coherence tomography retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements. 
  • Errors in surgical neuropathology and the influence of cognitive biases: the psychology of intelligence analysis. 
  • Estimating deaths from cardiovascular disease: a review of global methodologies of mortality measurement. 
  • Estimating overdiagnosis in lung cancer screening--reply. 
  • Ethnic variability in retinal vessel caliber: a potential source of measurement error from ocular pigmentation?--the Sydney Childhood Eye Study. 
  • Evaluating Resident On-Call Performance: Does Volume Affect Discrepancy Rate? 
  • Evaluation of dysphonic patients by general otolaryngologists. 
  • Evidence-based decision support for neurological diagnosis reduces errors and unnecessary workup. 
  • Exploring the potential of context-sensitive CADe in screening mammography. 
  • Extrusion of tibial tunnel bioabsorbable screw 15 months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. 
  • False FHL: a normal variant posing risks in posterior hindfoot endoscopy. 
  • False-positive diagnosis of aortic dissection associated with femoral cardiopulmonary bypass. 
  • Features Associated With Discordance Between Pulmonary Arterial Wedge Pressure and Left Ventricular End Diastolic Pressure in Clinical Practice: Implications for Pulmonary Hypertension Classification. 
  • Fetal cerebral ventriculomegaly: misidentification of the true medial boundary of the ventricle at US. 
  • Fine-needle aspiration of papillary thyroid carcinoma: distinguishing between cases that performed well and those that performed poorly in the College of American Pathologists Nongynecologic Cytology Program. 
  • Focal intrahepatic extramedullary hematopoiesis mimicking neoplasm. 
  • Fool's gold: Why imperfect reference tests are undermining the evaluation of novel diagnostics: a reevaluation of 5 diagnostic tests for leptospirosis. 
  • Genetic diagnosis in Lafora disease: genotype-phenotype correlations and diagnostic pitfalls. 
  • Giant cell aortitis mimicking intramural hematoma. 
  • Giant cell tumor of rib masquerading as thymoma: a diagnostic pitfall in needle core biopsy of the mediastinum. 
  • Glutaric acidemia, type I, missed by newborn screening in an infant with dystonia following promethazine administration. 
  • Hepatic uterus-like mass misdiagnosed as hepatic abscess. 
  • How common is misdiagnosis in late-onset Pompe disease? 
  • How well do clinic-based blood pressure measurements agree with the mercury standard? 
  • Hyperchromatic crowded groups in cervical cytology--differing appearances and interpretations in conventional and ThinPrep preparations: a study from the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Cervicovaginal Cytology. 
  • Identifying error-making patterns in assessment of mammographic BI-RADS descriptors among radiology residents using statistical pattern recognition. 
  • Imaging evaluation of the patient with worst headache of life--it's not all subarachnoid hemorrhage. 
  • Impact of core-needle breast biopsy on the surgical management of mammographic abnormalities. 
  • Infrequent diagnosis of primary human immunodeficiency virus infection: missed opportunities in acute care settings. 
  • Initial Effectiveness of a Monitoring System to Correctly Identify Inappropriate Lack of Follow-Up for Abdominal Imaging Findings of Possible Cancer. 
  • Institutional review of outside cytology materials: a retrospective analysis of two institutions' experiences. 
  • Interpretation of pediatric chest radiographs by non-radiologist clinicians in Botswana using World Health Organization criteria for endpoint pneumonia. 
  • Interpretive Diagnostic Error Reduction in Surgical Pathology and Cytology: Guideline From the College of American Pathologists Pathology and Laboratory Quality Center and the Association of Directors of Anatomic and Surgical Pathology. 
  • Journal Club: incidental thyroid nodules detected at imaging: can diagnostic workup be reduced by use of the Society of Radiologists in Ultrasound recommendations and the three-tiered system? 
  • Lateral condyle fractures: missed diagnoses in pediatric elbow injuries. 
  • Leukemia/lymphoma in cerebrospinal fluid: distinguishing between cases that performed well and poorly in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in Non-gynecologic Cytology. 
  • Logical Differential Prediction Bayes Net, improving breast cancer diagnosis for older women. 
  • Lung-cancer screening. 
  • MNGIE neuropathy: five cases mimicking chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy. 
  • Malaria vaccine efficacy: the difficulty of detecting and diagnosing malaria. 
  • Measuring the significance of participant evaluation of acceptability of cases in the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison Program in cervicovaginal cytology. 
  • Middle cerebral artery aneurysm misdiagnosed as a temporomandibular disorder: report of a case. 
  • Minimizing the risk of inappropriately administering thrombolytic therapy (Thrombolysis and Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction [TAMI] study group). 
  • Misleading aspiration biopsy in combined intraocular pathology. 
  • Missed opportunities for timely diagnosis of pediatric lupus in South Africa: a qualitative study. 
  • Navigating the scylla and charybdis of chest pain management in the emergency department. Is a computer the answer? 
  • Necropsy diagnosis of endometrial cancer and detection-bias in case/control studies. 
  • Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria Pulmonary Infection Could Be Easily Misdiagnosed Leading to Serious Consequences. 
  • Nosocomial infection in the NICU: a medical complication or unavoidable problem? 
  • Occult orthopaedic trauma in the multiply injured patient. 
  • Occult temporal arteritis. 
  • Optical coherence tomography errors in glaucoma. 
  • Outpatient diagnostic errors: unrecognized hyperglycemia. 
  • Ovarian cyst rupture causing hemoperitoneum: imaging features and the potential for misdiagnosis. 
  • Overdiagnosis in low-dose computed tomography screening for lung cancer. 
  • PACS in sonography: accuracy of interpretation using film compared with monitor display. Picture archiving and communication systems. 
  • Paget's disease of the breast masquerading as squamous cell carcinoma on cytology: a case report. 
  • Parathyroid 4D CT and Scintigraphy: What Factors Contribute to Missed Parathyroid Lesions? 
  • Pathological bone fractures in a 20-year old athletic male with multifocal solitary plasmacytoma of bone. 
  • Pediatric melanoma: a single-institution experience of 150 patients. 
  • Perceived misinterpretation rates in oncologic 18F-FDG PET/CT studies: a survey of referring physicians. 
  • Perceptron error surface analysis: a case study in breast cancer diagnosis. 
  • Performance characteristics of different modalities for diagnosis of suspected lung cancer: summary of published evidence. 
  • Phenotype of normal spirometry in an aging population. 
  • Physiologic pseudoseizures: an EEG case report of mistake in identity. 
  • Pitfalls in avoiding operation for autoimmune pancreatitis. 
  • Postoperative pubic osteomyelitis misdiagnosed as osteitis pubis: report of four cases and review. 
  • Predictors of Physician Under-Recognition of Angina in Outpatients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease. 
  • Predictors of Ultrasound Failure to Detect Hepatocellular Carcinoma. 
  • Prenatal diagnosis and the pediatric surgeon: the impact of prenatal consultation on perinatal management. 
  • Preoperative Cytologic Diagnosis of Noninvasive Follicular Thyroid Neoplasm with Papillary-Like Nuclear Features: A Prospective Analysis. 
  • Preoperative MR imaging in hyperparathyroidism: results and factors affecting parathyroid detection. 
  • Presumptive diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis based on radiographic findings. 
  • Prevalence and clinical outcomes of undiagnosed diabetes mellitus and prediabetes among patients with high-risk non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Primary immunodeficiency or not? Making the correct diagnosis. 
  • Problems created in attenuation-corrected SPECT images by artifacts in attenuation maps: a simulation study. 
  • Projected morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses of coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Prospective correlation of cervicovaginal cytologic and histologic specimens. 
  • Pseudo-migration of a biliary stent. 
  • Psoriatic arthritis of the foot and ankle: analysis of joint involvement and diagnostic errors. 
  • Pulmonary artery intimal sarcoma mimicking pulmonary thromboembolism: A case report. 
  • Q: elevated serum creatine kinase (does/does not) equal myocardial infarction? 
  • Quality Improvement in 3D Imaging. 
  • Quality-assurance study of simultaneously sampled, non-correlating cervical cytology and biopsies. 
  • Quantifying the Effect of Abdominal Body Wall on In Situ Peak Rarefaction Pressure During Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging. 
  • Radiology Trainee Performance in Digital Breast Tomosynthesis: Relationship Between Difficulty and Error-Making Patterns. 
  • Radiology resident mammography training: interpretation difficulty and error-making patterns. 
  • Re: "Community-acquired pneumonia". 
  • Recurrent pseudobacteremias traced to a radiometric blood culture device. 
  • Reports of presumptive brown recluse spider bites reinforce improbable diagnosis in regions of North America where the spider is not endemic. 
  • Retroaortic left renal vein in testicular cancer patient: potential staging and treatment pitfall. 
  • Rim-rent tear of the rotator cuff: a common and easily overlooked partial tear. 
  • Sarcopenia: an undiagnosed condition in older adults. Current consensus definition: prevalence, etiology, and consequences. International working group on sarcopenia. 
  • Schwannoma in neurofibromatosis type 1: a pitfall for detecting malignancy by metabolic imaging. 
  • Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). Part II: Clinical applications. 
  • Some common fallacies in arguments from M/EEG data. 
  • Spectrum of Pitfalls, Pseudolesions, and Misdiagnoses in Noncirrhotic Liver. 
  • Spectrum of Pitfalls, Pseudolesions, and Potential Misdiagnoses in Cirrhosis. 
  • Squamous cell neoplasia controversy in the female exposed to diethylstilbestrol. 
  • Strategies of dose reduction. 
  • Subtyping primary insomnia: is sleep state misperception a distinct clinical entity? 
  • Sumatriptan-induced stroke in sagittal sinus thrombosis. 
  • Symptomatic obstruction of the brachiocephalic and left subclavian arteries obscured by aortic stenosis. 
  • Synthetic positron emission tomography-computed tomography images for use in perceptual studies. 
  • Systematic review with meta-analysis: global prevalence of uninvestigated dyspepsia according to the Rome criteria. 
  • Tailoring Radiology Resident Education Using Aggregated Missed-Cases Data. 
  • Technologic advances for evaluation of cervical cytology: is newer better? 
  • Temporoparietal hypometabolism in frontotemporal lobar degeneration and associated imaging diagnostic errors. 
  • Thal patch gastroesophagoplasty: chest radiographic findings simulating leak or abscess. 
  • The Linear Nail Streak: A Lesson in Cultural Humility. 
  • The influence of cardiograph design and automated algorithms on the incidence and detection of electrode cable reversals in an academic electrocardiogram laboratory. 
  • The misdiagnosis of interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome in a VA population. 
  • The potential for failure in gynecologic regulatory proficiency testing with current slide validation criteria: results from the College of American Pathologists Interlaboratory Comparison in Gynecologic Cytology Program. 
  • Thyroid malignancy masquerading as thyroiditis. 
  • Time course of satisfaction of search. 
  • Tissue storage and primer selection influence pyrosequencing-based inferences of diversity and community composition of endolichenic and endophytic fungi. 
  • Transient smartphone blindness: Relevance to misdiagnosis in neurologic practice. 
  • Understanding and recognizing cardiac amyloidosis. 
  • Understanding errors in diagnostic radiology: proposal of a classification scheme and application to emergency radiology. 
  • Unrecognised Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia among hospital inpatients in less developed countries. 
  • User and system pitfalls in liver imaging with LI-RADS. 
  • Using computer-extracted image features for modeling of error-making patterns in detection of mammographic masses among radiology residents. 
  • Utility of fine-needle aspiration in the diagnosis of primary osteosarcoma. 
  • Variability in mammogram interpretation. 
  • Vectorcardiographic criteria for the diagnosis of inferior myocardial infarction. 
  • Walking the walk…or achieving quality is harder than it seems. 
  • When tumefactive demyelination is truly a tumor: case report of a radiographic misdiagnosis. 
  • [Misdiagnosis and mistherapy of ectopic thyroid gland]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Cohen, Seth Morris, Professor of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • DeLong, Elizabeth Ray, Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Esclamado, Ramon Mitra, Professor Emeritus of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences, Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences
  • Fox, James Walter, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Patel, Uptal Dinesh, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Nephrology
  • Patz Jr., Edward F., James and Alice Chen Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Pathology