Sentences with phrase «false negatives resulting from»

Clinical examination and imaging technologies are critical elements for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer, yet the high rate of false positives and false negatives resulting from these approaches can significantly impact patient care.

Health authorities say the number of false negative results from the tests is probably small but AIDS hotlines were jammed last week with inquiries from people worried by the implications.

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Given the lack of mortality benefit of screening, and the moderate to substantial harms that could result from false - positive screeningtest results and subsequent surgery, the USPSTF concludes with moderate certainty that the harms of screening for ovarian cancer outweigh the benefit, and the net balance of the benefit and harms of screening is negative.

Follow - up interviews were obtained from 1,028 of the women (534 with negative results, 494 with false - positive results).

A doctor can also fail to get enough of a tissue, blood, or urine sample or take a sample from the wrong place, perhaps giving a false - negative result when disease is present, explains David S. Wilkinson, MD, PhD, professor and chair of the department of pathology at Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Va., and chair of the quality - practice committee for the College of American Pathologists, which accredits U.S. and foreign labs.

After I wiped tears from my eyes, I realized that I should let her know that if she is going to get tested for celiac disease she should NOT be on a gluten - free diet before getting tested because it can produce a false negative result.

It's important not to eliminate gluten from your diet before being tested as it would cause a false - negative test result.

Diagnosis of canine dirofilariosis in animals which originate from a low - endemic region is difficult for 3 main reasons: 1) possible absence of circulating microfilariae (occult disease), 2) high frequency of a low number of adults, which in turn produces false negative results, using either ELISA or latex agglutination test, 3) possible false sero - positive results, due to cross-reaction with adult antigens of Dirofilaria (Nochtiella) repens (Schrey, 1996), the agent of subcutaneous dirofilariasis causing chronic pruritic dermatitis in dogs (Tarello, 1999).