False Negative Reactions

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of the sensitivities of contrast and isotope voiding cystourethrograms for the detection of pancreas transplant bladder leaks. 
  • A quality control program within a clinical trial Consortium for PCR protocols to detect Plasmodium species. 
  • Accuracy of radionuclide imaging in distinguishing renal masses from normal variants. 
  • Accuracy of self-reports of fecal occult blood tests and test results among individuals in the carpentry trade. 
  • Accuracy of the chest radiograph in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. 
  • Acute injuries of the lateral ligaments of the ankle: comparison of stress radiography and arthrography. 
  • Acylcarnitines in plasma and blood spots of patients with long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase defiency. 
  • Amebiasis: epidemiologic studies in the United States, 1971-1974. 
  • An abnormal cervicovaginal cytology smear in uterine carcinosarcoma is an adverse prognostic sign: analysis of 25 cases. 
  • Analysis of the solitary pulmonary nodule by means of digital techniques. 
  • Antigen-specific T-lymphocyte function after cord blood transplantation. 
  • Assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Bioluminescence screening for bacteriuria. 
  • Breast carcinoma: MR imaging before re-excisional biopsy. 
  • CT during arterial portography: diagnostic pitfalls. 
  • Causes of misinterpretation of cross-sectional imaging studies for dissection of the craniocervical arteries. 
  • Chiari malformation Type I surgery in pediatric patients. Part 1: validation of an ICD-9-CM code search algorithm. 
  • Colon sentinel lymph node mapping: practical surgical applications. 
  • Comparison of acridine orange, methylene blue, and Gram stains for blood cultures. 
  • Comparison of commercial kits for detection of cryptococcal antigen. 
  • Comparison of recall and cancer detection rates for immediate versus batch interpretation of screening mammograms. 
  • Correlation of DNA ploidy and histologic diagnosis from prostate core-needle biopsies: is DNA ploidy more sensitive than histology for the diagnosis of carcinoma in small specimens? 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of the diagnosis of meniscus tears. 
  • Cytologically low grade malignancies: an important interpretative pitfall responsible for false negative diagnoses in fine-needle aspiration of the breast. 
  • Dexamethasone suppression test for depression. 
  • Diagnosis and management of common bile duct stones in patients with sickle hemoglobinopathies. 
  • Differentiating normal from abnormal inferior thoracic paravertebral soft tissues on chest radiography in children. 
  • Do proficiency test results correlate with the work performance of screeners who screen Papanicolaou smears? 
  • Dural sinus thrombosis: sources of error in image interpretation. 
  • Effect of human variability on independent double reading in screening mammography. 
  • Efficacy of radiographic chest imaging in patients with testicular cancer. 
  • Establishing a malaria diagnostics centre of excellence in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • Evaluation of cervical cytology. 
  • Evaluation of choroidal neovascular membranes by Octopus perimetry. 
  • False-negative findings for primary lung tumors on FDG positron emission tomography: staging and prognostic implications. 
  • Gastrointestinal bleeding in adult patients with Meckel's diverticulum: the role of technetium 99m pertechnetate scan. 
  • Gene expression profile assays as predictors of recurrence-free survival in early-stage breast cancer: a metaanalysis. 
  • Hepatic abscess: sensitivity of imaging tests and clinical findings. 
  • Herpes simplex virus hepatitis after renal transplantation. 
  • I perform more than 100 interventional procedures every year but have never seen radiation-induced skin injury: am I missing something? 
  • Inadequate sensitivity of tuberculin tine test for screening employee populations. 
  • Inferences about prostate intrafraction motion from pre- and posttreatment volumetric imaging. 
  • Initial experience with intraoperative PTH determinations in the surgical management of 130 consecutive cases of primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Interferences with urine drug screens. 
  • Intraoperative frozen section analysis of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients: a meta-analysis and single-institution experience. 
  • Lack of radiographic loosening signs in a hip resurfacing that failed by stem fracture. 
  • Likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity values can be back-calculated when the odds ratios are known. 
  • Lymphatic mapping and sentinel lymph node biopsy in early-stage breast carcinoma: a metaanalysis. 
  • MR imaging with surface coils in primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Making the diagnosis of acute appendicitis: do more preoperative CT scans mean fewer negative appendectomies? A 10-year study. 
  • Malaria vaccine efficacy: the difficulty of detecting and diagnosing malaria. 
  • Mandatory diagnostic screening tests to individualize therapy: a curious paradox. 
  • Measurement of fibrinogen degradation products. 
  • Melanomas that defy clinical recognition. 
  • Negative biopsies, deadly disease: metastatic angiosarcoma. 
  • New techniques for DNA sequence classification. 
  • Nine-year single center experience with cervical mediastinoscopy: complications and false negative rate. 
  • PET imaging in patients with bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma. 
  • Pancreatic FNA in 1000 cases: a comparison of imaging modalities. 
  • Performance of case-finding tools for depression in the nursing home: influence of clinical and functional characteristics and selection of optimal threshold scores. 
  • Playing the odds. 
  • Projected morbidity and mortality from missed diagnoses of coronary artery disease in the United States. 
  • Proper staging techniques in testicular cancer patients. 
  • Prostate cancer and chip specimens: complete versus partial sampling. 
  • Quantitation of target molecules from polymerase chain reaction-based limiting dilution assays. 
  • Renal allograft rejection: evaluation by Doppler US and MR imaging. 
  • Retroperitoneal imaging with third and fourth generation computed axial tomography in clinical stage I nonseminomatous germ cell tumors. 
  • Screening adults for pre-diabetes and diabetes may be cost-saving. 
  • Sensitivity of the Hemoccult II slide test in detecting colonic neoplasms. 
  • Sentinel node biopsy for head and neck melanoma: a systematic review. 
  • Sentinel node staging of resectable colon cancer: results of a multicenter study. 
  • Seronegative secondary syphilis in a patient infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) with Kaposi sarcoma. A diagnostic dilemma. 
  • Should the intent of testing influence its interpretation? 
  • Significant sex differences in the correlation of electrocardiographic exercise testing and coronary arteriograms. 
  • Spontaneous vertebral dissection: clinical, conventional angiographic, CT, and MR findings. 
  • Stanford University network for diagnosis of retinopathy of prematurity (SUNDROP): 36-month experience with telemedicine screening. 
  • The anatomy of missed breast cancers. 
  • The continued vital role of electron microscopy in the diagnosis of renal disease/dysfunction. 
  • The detection of renal carcinoma extension into the renal vein and inferior vena cava: a prospective comparison of venacavography and magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • The incidence of ureteral obstruction and the value of intraoperative cystoscopy during vaginal surgery for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • The medical legal implications of following mammographic breast masses. 
  • The prevalence and validity of high, biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI among 8.8 million children. 
  • The significance of automated systems for detecting significant bacteriuria. 
  • The tandem mass spectrometry newborn screening experience in North Carolina: 1997-2005. 
  • Thymoma detection by mediastinal CT: patient with myasthenia gravis. 
  • Tuberculosis transmission from a patient with skin lesions and a negative sputum smear. 
  • Ultrasound and gallium for the diagnosis of abdominal and pelvic abscesses. 
  • Use of the dexamethasone suppression test in depression. 
  • Validation of DNA methylation biomarkers for diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Validity of a telemedicine system for the evaluation of acute-phase retinopathy of prematurity. 
  • [(99m)Tc]Tilmanocept Accurately Detects Sentinel Lymph Nodes and Predicts Node Pathology Status in Patients with Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck: Results of a Phase III Multi-institutional Trial. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Lee, Walter T, Associate Professor of Surgery, Radiation Oncology
  • Orlando, Lori Ann, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology