Chronic ulcerative stomatitis: A comprehensive review and proposal for diagnostic criteria

Agitated behaviors are a common and nearly universal occurrence among patients suffering from dementing illnesses. The pharmacologic treatments available for this troubling syndrome are varied, but treatment studies are limited. Clinicians are frequently faced with the challenging management of patients with disruptive behavior who fail to respond to trials with multiple agents. This review summarizes available treatment studies of agitation in dementia and offers a guide to therapy and management. Reports of therapies for agitation in dementia are limited by lack of controlled studies, variability of diagnostic criteria and outcome measures, and small sample size. The need for carefully designed, well-controlled studies of outcome in this growing population is formidable. It is imperative to identify effective and well-tolerated treatment strategies to reduce the morbidity of these distressing and burdensome symptoms.

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Fibrocartilaginous embolism: a comprehensive review of an under-studied cause of spinal cord infarction and proposed diagnostic criteria

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine ◽

10.1080/10790268.2015.1116726 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 39 (2) ◽

pp. 146-154 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Mahmoud A. AbdelRazek ◽

Ashkan Mowla ◽

Salman Farooq ◽

Nicholas Silvestri ◽

Robert Sawyer ◽

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Keyword(s):

Spinal Cord ◽

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Spinal Cord Infarction ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Fibrocartilaginous Embolism

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Stauffer’s syndrome: A comprehensive review and proposed updated diagnostic criteria

Urologic Oncology Seminars and Original Investigations ◽

10.1016/j.urolonc.2018.01.019 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 36 (7) ◽

pp. 321-326 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mário Fontes-Sousa ◽

Helena Magalhães ◽

Fernando Calais da Silva ◽

Maria Joaquina Maurício

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Comprehensive Review

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Cancer or Tuberculosis: A Comprehensive Review of the Clinical and Imaging Features in Diagnosis of the Confusing Mass

Frontiers in Oncology ◽

10.3389/fonc.2021.644150 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 ◽

Author(s):

Yufan Xiang ◽

Chen Huang ◽

Yan He ◽

Qin Zhang

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Multimodal Imaging ◽

Laboratory Tests ◽

Clinical Characteristics ◽

Clinical Problem ◽

Imaging Features ◽

Clinical Experiences ◽

Comprehensive Review ◽

Factors Associated

Confusing masses constitute a challenging clinical problem for differentiating between cancer and tuberculosis diagnoses. This review summarizes the major theories designed to identify factors associated with misdiagnosis, such as imaging features, laboratory tests, and clinical characteristics. Then, the clinical experiences regarding the misdiagnosis of cancer and tuberculosis are summarized. Finally, the main diagnostic points and differential diagnostic criteria are explored, and the characteristics of multimodal imaging and radiomics are summarized.

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Fatal human cyclical neutropenia with unresolving tonsillitis and bilateral cervical abscesses

The Journal of Laryngology & Otology ◽

10.1017/s002221510011638x ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 105 (6) ◽

pp. 487-488

Author(s):

C. Bandason ◽

R. J. Lee

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Fatal Case ◽

Review Of The Literature ◽

Periodic Oscillations ◽

Haematological Disorder ◽

Cyclical Neutropenia ◽

Clinical Awareness ◽

Ulcerative Stomatitis ◽

Patients Experience ◽

Peripheral Neutrophil

AbstractHuman Cyclical Neutropenia is a rare haematological disorder, characterized by periodic oscillations in peripheral neutrophil levels from normal to neutropenic, during which patients experience ulcerative stomatitis, fever, malaise and occasional cutaneous and subcutaneous infections.We present our experience with a fatal case of Human Cyclical Neutropenia together with a brief review of the literature and diagnostic criteria. The paper aims to heighten the clinical awareness of the otolaryngologist to the condition. Close co-operation with the haematologist is essential both for diagnosis and management.

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Diverse facets of cervical adenocarcinoma: comprehensive review of clinicopathologic features and diagnostic criteria

Diagnostic Histopathology ◽

10.1016/j.mpdhp.2010.06.013 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 16 (10) ◽

pp. 455-467 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Edyta Catalina Pirog

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Cervical Adenocarcinoma ◽

Clinicopathologic Features ◽

Comprehensive Review

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An adrenocortical oncocytoma with unusual mitochondrial inclusions and cytoplasmic crystals

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100168980 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 250-251

Author(s):

W.T. Gunning ◽

G.D. Haselhuhn ◽

E.R. Phillips ◽

S.H. Selman

Keyword(s):

Adrenal Gland ◽

Salivary Glands ◽

Mitotic Activity ◽

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Vascular Invasion ◽

Benign Neoplasm ◽

Benign Tumors ◽

Nuclear Morphology ◽

Case Presentation ◽

Microscopic Evidence

Within the last few years, adrenal cortical tumors with features concordant with the diagnostic criteria attributed to oncocytomas have been reported. To date, only nine reported cases exist in the literature. This report is the tenth case presentation of a presumptively benign neoplasm of the adrenal gland with a rare differentiation. Oncocytomas are well recognized benign tumors of the thyroid, parathyroid, and salivary glands and of the kidney. Other organs also give rise to these types of tumors, however with less frequency than the former sites. The characteristics generally used to classify a tumor as an oncocytoma include the following criteria: the tumor is 1) usually a solitary circumscribed mass with no gross nor microscopic evidence of metastasis (no tissue nor vascular invasion), 2) fairly bland in terms of mitotic activity and nuclear morphology, and 3) composed of large eosinophillic cells in which the cytoplasm is packed full of mitochondria (Figure 1).

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An Introductory Examination of Speech Disfluencies in Spanish–English Bilingual Children Who Do and Do Not Stutter During Narratives

Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups ◽

10.1044/2019_persp-19-00040 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 131-141

Author(s):

Cristina Rincon ◽

Kia Noelle Johnson ◽

Courtney Byrd

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Preliminary Data ◽

Diagnostic Information ◽

English Speakers ◽

Bilingual Children ◽

English Bilingual ◽

Developmental Stuttering ◽

Mean Length Of Utterance

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the frequency and type of speech disfluencies (stuttering-like and nonstuttering-like) in bilingual Spanish–English (SE) children who stutter (CWS) to SE children who do not stutter (CWNS) during narrative samples elicited in Spanish and English to provide further diagnostic information for this population and preliminary data toward an expansion of this study. Method Participants included six bilingual SE children (three CWS, three CWNS) ranging in age from 5 years to 7;5 (years;months) and recruited from the surrounding Houston, Texas area. Participants provided a narrative sample in English and Spanish. The frequency of speech disfluencies was tabulated, and mean length of utterance was measured for each sample. Results Results indicate that both talker groups exceed the diagnostic criteria typically used for developmental stuttering. Regardless of the language being spoken, CWS participants had a frequency of stuttering-like speech disfluencies that met or exceeded the diagnostic criteria for developmental stuttering that is based on monolingual English speakers. The CWNS participants varied in meeting the criteria depending on the language being spoken, with one of the three CWNS exceeding the criteria in both languages and one exceeding the criteria for percentage of stuttering-like speech disfluencies in one language. Conclusion Findings from this study contribute to the development of more appropriate diagnostic criteria for bilingual SE-speaking children to aid in the reduction of misdiagnoses of stuttering in this population.

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