A 47- year- old woman was receiving chemotherapy because of a stage III ovarian cancer. She went to the Emergency Room (ER) with a low fever (37º centigrades), nausea and pain in her abdomen. Continue reading Right lower quadrant pain and ovarian cancer. It is clear. Why should we make a differential diagnosis?
The recognition of clinical patterns is the key action to select a diagnosis when different entities share common signs and symptoms. Although the way in which each physician approaches a clinical problem can be very variable, there is agreement that the
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Differential Diagnosis is a key step in Medicine, but it is poorly practiced by young and old doctors. Some of the “reasons” that especially young doctors and residents expose to justify this fact are the following:
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