Foro Osler: our opinion
Unsafe cognitive acts: a classification
Do we have to re-biopsy a cancer recurrence?
Diagnosis is associated to the initial assesment of a clinical problem. But in some chronic diseases such as many cancers we must be sure if we are in front of the same tumor or a different one. Breast cancer is the paradigm of this situation…
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Backward clinical reasoning: the brain speaks
What do you think is the key symptom in this 45 year-old female patient with a diagnosis of lymphoproliferative disorder and this MNR image?
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Tumour heterogeneity: a challenge for Diagnosis
Diagnosis is an exercise of categorisation. Many pathological entities are still defined using the anatomical location. Tumours are a clear example of this situation but things are now changing based on genetic profiles.
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