False Positive Reactions

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case of spurious hypercalcitoninemia: a cautionary tale on the use of plasma calcitonin assays in the screening of patients with thyroid nodules for neoplasia. 
  • A comparative analysis of the information content in long and short SAGE libraries. 
  • Abnormal outcomes following cervical cancer screening: event duration and health utility loss. 
  • Absence of secretory endometrium after false-positive home urine luteinizing hormone testing. 
  • Accuracy of radionuclide imaging in distinguishing renal masses from normal variants. 
  • Accuracy of the chest radiograph in diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. 
  • Acute Dengue fever causes false-positive reactivity in OraQuick rapid HIV-1/2 antibody test. 
  • Amebiasis: epidemiologic studies in the United States, 1971-1974. 
  • An evaluation of lesion detectability with cone-beam, fanbeam and parallel-beam collimation in SPECT by continuous ROC study. 
  • An unusual case of false-positive serology for the human immunodeficiency virus: report from the heterosexual HIV transmission study. 
  • Are effort measures sensitive to cognitive impairment? 
  • Artificial neural networks for single photon emission computed tomography. A study of cold lesion detection and localization. 
  • Assessment of regional wall motion abnormalities with real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Automated breast mass detection in 3D reconstructed tomosynthesis volumes: a featureless approach. 
  • Autopsy validation study of the academic research consortium stent thrombosis definition. 
  • BAEPs in infants with myelomeningocele and later development of Chiari II malformation-related brainstem dysfunction. 
  • Baseline 24-2 Central Visual Field Damage Is Predictive of Global Progressive Field Loss. 
  • Benefits and Harms of Breast Cancer Screening: A Systematic Review. 
  • Biplane correlation imaging: a feasibility study based on phantom and human data. 
  • Blood culture contamination in Tanzania, Malawi, and the United States: a microbiological tale of three cities. 
  • CT during arterial portography: diagnostic pitfalls. 
  • CT evaluation of subarachnoid hemorrhage: a practical review for the radiologist interpreting emergency room studies. 
  • Captopril renography in the diagnosis of renovascular disease. 
  • Causes of misinterpretation of cross-sectional imaging studies for dissection of the craniocervical arteries. 
  • Cell-free DNA analysis for noninvasive examination of trisomy. 
  • Clinical utility of broth cultures of cerebrospinal fluid from patients at risk for shunt infections. 
  • Clinical utility of cardiac valve Gram stain and culture in patients undergoing native valve replacement. 
  • Clinical utility of erythrocyte sedimentation rate and plasma protein analysis in the elderly. 
  • Comparative Cost-Effectiveness of Clinic, Home, or Ambulatory Blood Pressure Measurement for Hypertension Diagnosis in US Adults. 
  • Comparing the value of mammographic features and genetic variants in breast cancer risk prediction. 
  • Comparison of PCR, culture, and histopathology for diagnosis of tuberculous pericarditis. 
  • Comparison of acridine orange and Gram stains for detection of microorganisms in cerebrospinal fluid and other clinical specimens. 
  • Comparison of acridine orange, methylene blue, and Gram stains for blood cultures. 
  • Comparison of an enzyme immunoassay to an indirect fluorescent immunoassay for the detection of antinuclear antibodies. 
  • Comparison of commercial kits for detection of cryptococcal antigen. 
  • Comparison of radiologists and technologists in the performance of air-contrast barium enemas. 
  • Comparison of the posttraumatic stress disorder scale versus the clinician-administered posttraumatic stress disorder scale in domestic violence survivors. 
  • Computed tomography screening for lung cancer: where are we now? 
  • Computer-aided detection in screening mammography: variability in cues. 
  • Computer-assisted detection of mammographic masses: a template matching scheme based on mutual information. 
  • Computerized detection of masses in digital mammograms: analysis of bilateral subtraction images. 
  • Computerized detection of masses in digital mammograms: investigation of feature-analysis techniques. 
  • Confirmation of visual field abnormalities in the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study. Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study Group. 
  • 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. 
  • Cytologic screening after hysterectomy for benign disease. 
  • Diagnosis of Giardia lamblia infections by detection of parasite-specific antigens. 
  • Diagnostic ability of Heidelberg Retina Tomography in detecting glaucoma in a population setting: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Diagnostic accuracy of the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph for glaucoma a population-based assessment. 
  • Diagnostic tests: understanding results, assessing utility, and predicting performance. 
  • Diagnostic ultrasound and pars plana vitrectomy in penetrating ocular trauma. 
  • Differentiating normal from abnormal inferior thoracic paravertebral soft tissues on chest radiography in children. 
  • Doppler contrast sonography for detecting reduced perfusion in experimental ischemia of prepubertal rabbit testes. 
  • Dural sinus thrombosis: sources of error in image interpretation. 
  • Edge displacement field-based classification for improved detection of polyps in CT colonography. 
  • Effect of human variability on independent double reading in screening mammography. 
  • Efficacy and safety of MR imaging with liver-specific contrast agent: U.S. multicenter phase III study. 
  • Efficacy of radiographic chest imaging in patients with testicular cancer. 
  • Elevated serum CA-125 levels: hepatitis or ascites? 
  • Establishing a malaria diagnostics centre of excellence in Kisumu, Kenya. 
  • Evaluation of ECG algorithms designed to improve detect of transient myocardial ischemia to minimize false alarms in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome. 
  • Evaluation of choroidal neovascular membranes by Octopus perimetry. 
  • Evidence of off-target effects associated with long dsRNAs in Drosophila melanogaster cell-based assays. 
  • Exploring the potential of context-sensitive CADe in screening mammography. 
  • Factors affecting reproducibility between genome-scale siRNA-based screens. 
  • False Positive Lyme Disease IgM Immunoblots in Children. 
  • False positive images in the follow-up of patients with brain tumors. 
  • False-Positive Pancreatic Uptake Detected on 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT: A Priority Changing Incidental Finding While Assessing the Need for a Prostate Biopsy. 
  • False-positive Gram-stained smears. 
  • False-positive MRI detection of recurrent or metastatic pediatric infratentorial tumors. 
  • False-positive calvarial uptake of indium-111 leukocytes in a patient with hyperostosis frontalis interna. 
  • False-positive spinal MR findings for subarachnoid spread of primary CNS tumor in postoperative pediatric patients. 
  • False-positivity of HIV-2 immunoblots in a cohort of elite suppressors infected with HIV-1. 
  • Falsely elevated urinary excretion of catecholamines and metanephrines in patients receiving labetalol therapy. 
  • Frequency doubling technology perimetry abnormalities as predictors of glaucomatous visual field loss. 
  • Gastric graft-versus-host disease: a blinded histologic study. 
  • Gender, cardiology, and optimal medical care. 
  • Gene expression profile assays as predictors of recurrence-free survival in early-stage breast cancer: a metaanalysis. 
  • Genetic and nongenetic covariates of pain severity in patients with adenocarcinoma of the pancreas: assessing the influence of cytokine genes. 
  • Has the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine been fully exonerated? 
  • High Dimensional Variable Selection with Error Control. 
  • Histopathologic distinctions in the relationship of estrogens and endometrial cancer. 
  • Identification of the Fraction of Indolent Tumors and Associated Overdiagnosis in Breast Cancer Screening Trials. 
  • Identifying glaucomatous vision loss with visual-function-specific perimetry in the diagnostic innovations in glaucoma study. 
  • Immunochromatographic test for rapid detection of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the nasopharynx. 
  • Impact of Normal Aging and Progression Definitions on the Specificity of Detecting Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thinning. 
  • Impact of ostium secundum atrial septal defect closure on the resolution of falsely positive electrocardiographic criteria for myocardial scarring. 
  • Implanted Monitor Alerting to Reduce Treatment Delay in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome Events. 
  • Improved prediction of rates of visual field loss in glaucoma using empirical Bayes estimates of slopes of change. 
  • Improving indel detection specificity of the Ion Torrent PGM benchtop sequencer. 
  • Incorporation of a Laguerre-Gauss channelized Hotelling observer for false-positive reduction in a mammographic mass CAD system. 
  • Increasing utilization of human T-cell lymphotropic virus (+) donors in liver transplantation: is it safe? 
  • Inferences about prostate intrafraction motion from pre- and posttreatment volumetric imaging. 
  • Influence of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy on the performance of Heidelberg retina tomography II for diagnosis of glaucoma. 
  • Initial experience with intraoperative PTH determinations in the surgical management of 130 consecutive cases of primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Intrahepatic, extramedullary hematopoiesis mimicking hemangioma on technetium-99m red blood cell SPECT examination. 
  • Intraoperative frozen section analysis of sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer patients: a meta-analysis and single-institution experience. 
  • Isolated adipic aciduria. 
  • It May Be Time to Abandon Urine Tests for Bladder Cancer. 
  • Levels of office blood pressure and their operating characteristics for detecting masked hypertension based on ambulatory blood pressure monitoring. 
  • Likelihood ratios, sensitivity, and specificity values can be back-calculated when the odds ratios are known. 
  • Limited value of interlaced ECG-gated radiography in the presence of a normal chest radiograph. 
  • Linkage disequilibrium inflates type I error rates in multipoint linkage analysis when parental genotypes are missing. 
  • Liver and abdominal screening in patients with cancer: CT versus MR imaging. 
  • Lyme disease: authentic imitator or wishful imitation? 
  • 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. 
  • Matter arising: off-targets and genome-scale RNAi screens in Drosophila. 
  • Minimizing the risk of reporting false positives in large-scale RNAi screens. 
  • Modeling false positive error making patterns in radiology trainees for improved mammography education. 
  • Modelling the cumulative risk for a false-positive under repeated screening events 
  • National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory Medicine practice guidelines: Clinical utilization of cardiac biomarker testing in heart failure. 
  • National Lung Screening Trial findings by age: Medicare-eligible versus under-65 population. 
  • Novel association of smaller anterior chamber width with angle closure in Singaporeans. 
  • Overtreatment of presumed urinary tract infection in older women presenting to the emergency department. 
  • Pancreatic FNA in 1000 cases: a comparison of imaging modalities. 
  • Pancreatic pseudocyst: comparative evaluation by sonography and computed tomography. 
  • Performance of case-finding tools for depression in the nursing home: influence of clinical and functional characteristics and selection of optimal threshold scores. 
  • Performance of the Moorfields motion displacement test for identifying eyes with glaucoma. 
  • Performance of the T2Bacteria Panel for Diagnosing Bloodstream Infections: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study. 
  • Performance of the serum cobalamin assay for diagnosis of cobalamin deficiency. 
  • Plasmalyte as a cause of false-positive results for Aspergillus galactomannan in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid. 
  • Playing the odds. 
  • Potential Confounding of Diagnosis of Rabies in Patients with Recent Receipt of Intravenous Immune Globulin. 
  • Predicting the cumulative risk of false-positive mammograms. 
  • Predictive accuracy in the neuroprediction of rearrest. 
  • Proper staging techniques in testicular cancer patients. 
  • Prospective evaluation of radionuclide angiocardiography for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. 
  • Pulmonary hypertension and nitric oxide depletion in sickle cell disease. 
  • Quality of life and trial adherence among participants in the prostate, lung, colorectal, and ovarian cancer screening trial. 
  • Quantitative iris parameters and association with narrow angles. 
  • Rapid bacterial antigen detection is not clinically useful. 
  • Rapid diagnosis of maple syrup urine disease in blood spots from newborns by tandem mass spectrometry. 
  • Rapid self testing for HIV infection. 
  • Relation of results of exercise stress tests in young women to phases of the menstrual cycle. 
  • Sample size for FDR-control in microarray data analysis. 
  • Screening adults for pre-diabetes and diabetes may be cost-saving. 
  • Screening for cerebral metastases with FDG PET in patients undergoing whole-body staging of non-central nervous system malignancy. 
  • Screening for narrow angles in the singapore population: evaluation of new noncontact screening methods. 
  • Segmentation of suspicious clustered microcalcifications in mammograms. 
  • Seizures, syncope, or breath-holding presenting to the pediatric neurologist--when is the etiology a life-threatening arrhythmia? 
  • Serologic Screening for Genital Herpes: An Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. 
  • Should the intent of testing influence its interpretation? 
  • Shrinkage estimation for robust and efficient screening of single-SNP association from case-control genome-wide association studies. 
  • Significant sex differences in the correlation of electrocardiographic exercise testing and coronary arteriograms. 
  • Simulation optimization of PSA-threshold based prostate cancer screening policies. 
  • Subcultures of BACTEC-positive but gram or acridine orange stain-negative NR 6A and 7A blood culture bottles are unnecessary. 
  • Systolic venous waves cause spurious signs of arterial hemoglobin desaturation. 
  • The Incidence of Propionibacterium acnes in Open Shoulder Surgery: A Controlled Diagnostic Study. 
  • The antiphospholipid syndrome: what are we really measuring? How do we measure it? And how do we treat it? 
  • The detection of renal carcinoma extension into the renal vein and inferior vena cava: a prospective comparison of venacavography and magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • The effect of reactive atypia/inflammation on the laser-induced fluorescence diagnosis of non-dysplastic Barrett's esophagus. 
  • The efficacy of full-lung tomography in the detection of early metastatic disease from melanoma. 
  • The first positive: computing positive predictive value at the extremes. 
  • The impact of abnormal mammograms on psychosocial outcomes and subsequent screening. 
  • The laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease. 
  • The prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus in patients and their spouses entering a large in vitro fertilization program. 
  • Thymoma detection by mediastinal CT: patient with myasthenia gravis. 
  • Time course of satisfaction of search. 
  • Trisomy 13-confined placental mosaicism: is there an increased risk of gestational hypertensive disorders? 
  • Ultrasound and gallium for the diagnosis of abdominal and pelvic abscesses. 
  • Use of decrease in apparent diffusion coefficient values to predict infarct age. 
  • Use of florbetapir-PET for imaging beta-amyloid pathology. 
  • Validation of DNA methylation biomarkers for diagnosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Validation of an International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision Code Algorithm for Identifying Chiari Malformation Type 1 Surgery in Adults. 
  • Variability in mammogram interpretation. 
  • Vitrectomy for the diagnosis and management of uveitis of unknown cause. 
  • cis element/transcription factor analysis (cis/TF): a method for discovering transcription factor/cis element relationships. 
  • β-D-glucan surveillance with preemptive anidulafungin for invasive candidiasis in intensive care unit patients: a randomized pilot study. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Abbruzzese, James, D. C. I. Distinguished Professor of Medical Oncology, Medicine, Medical Oncology
  • Charles, Hal Cecil, Associate Professor of Radiology, Radiology
  • Jowell, Paul Simon, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, Gastroenterology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Orlando, Lori Ann, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology