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- Adrenal Gland [tumors] [lab
tests] [other diseases] [Vanderbilt
Pituitary Center test protocols]
- Autoimmune (collagen
vascular, rheumatoid) disease; Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center
- Birth defects: via
link to International
Birth Defects Information Systems (IBIS)...a
vast catalogue of information
- Breast
cancer
- Cancer websites:
- ASCO's "Cancer.Net": especially for non-pprofessionals HERE.
- NCCN: Clinical Practice Guidelines of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN). Guidelines produced by a formal coalition of experts associated with 19 of the world's leading cancer centers. Decisions by expected lifespan and functional capacity.
- Cardiovascular disease:
- cardiac
- vasculitidies;...... temporal arteritis.
- aortic dissection catastrophies, causes
- Coagulation & thrombosis evaluation & about
the Pro Time INR
- Ear Nose & Throat (Head & NECK):
- Neoplasms
- non-neoplastic
- Eye...Ophthalmic...ocular pathology.
- Fertility:
-
sperm morphology
- Functional, psychosomatic, supratentorial disorders to consider:
- gastrointestinal motility disorders.
- chronic fatigue.
- pain disorders.
- psychodermatological diseases [HERE]
- Gastro-esophago-Intestinal and
liver disease:
- [GI ] & [celiac disease & other PSEs] & [Haggitt
levels, intrapolypoidal ca.] & [on-line endoscopic atlas]
- Liver ...hepatitis C test interpretation decision tree.
- Digestive Disease Center (DDC)
@ MUSC
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Genetic disorders and/or influences/predisposition:
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database:
over 12,800 items and can generate a differential diagnosis from physical
findings...based at Johns Hopkins University
- Education about genetics @ NLM/NIH
- Gene Clinics database:
more detailed information about specific diseases and labs specialized in
testing...at U. of Washington, Seattle
- U. S. Office of Rare Diseases
- Covering bases for genetic
testing
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Gynecologic issues:
- Pap smears & associated
issues
- vulvar & perineal lesions, biopsy & lab testing
- uterus: IHC & HPV testing;
endometrium biopsies; neoplasia
- lower tract neoplasms
(vulva, vagina, cervix)
- fallopian tubes and ovary: [PCOS] [ovarian ca. screening]
- vaginal discharge (leukorrhea)
causes
- Heart Disease
- Hematopathology
- Hemochromatosis
- Infectious diseases (anthrax,
West Nile, etc.):
-
CDC web
site...files
of key details on each disease
- post-exposure hepatitis & HIV testing [HBV
immune status] [HBV] [HCV]
[HIV]
- Liver/biliary diseases
- Lung/pulmonary & respiratory tract:
- Lung/respiratory tract;... cancer issues;... ca. DDX flow chart.
- ciliary dyskinesia test
- Heath-Edwards pulmonary hypertension vasculopathy grades.
- chronic cough differential diagnosis
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Lymph node dissections
- Microbiology
-
Nomenclature web
site
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ATCC (new organisms and genetic info)
web site
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anthrax &
bioterrorism
via CAP
site and the above CDC site
- antibiotic guide @ John Hopkins
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viral testing by clinical-situation (rash, encephalitic,
etc.) category [HAPS
file]
-
Al Chan's Micro. site
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Kenneth
Todar's on-line textbook
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Mycology website...Doctorfungus
- Muscle biopsy & links.
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Neurological
& neurosurgical situations/diseases:
-
anatomic pathology
- CNS inflammations & degenerations, Duke website
(click on "Teaching" & scroll to links at page bottom).
-
Athena
Diagnostics specialty neurological genetic and
other tests
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Neurological
disorders link site :
sleep disorders, restless legs (within akasthesia), Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, etc.
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nasal fluid vs. CSF leak?
- Nutritional status assessment.
- Orthopedic...bone & joint pathology:
- septic joint and crystallosis diagnosis
- bone & joint surgical pathology
- Osteoporosis
- Obstetrical pathology:
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Placental pathology
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miscarriages & abortions data
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prenatal prophylaxis & birth defects monitoring
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Gestational trophoblastic disease
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other problems
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Pancreatic pathology & ca.:...[Johns Hopkins: pancreatic
cancer]...[at
Pathology Outlines]
- Parathyroid pathology
- Prostate cancer
- Renal disease & tumors
- Respiratory: see lung, above.
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Signs, symptoms, and syndrome lists and notes
- Skin: cancer & diseases...hair loss; pigment problems; nail disorders; special DIF & skin serology studies...medical skin, even emergency DX.
- Soft tissue tumors
- Spleen pathology
- Testicular
- Thymic/thoracic
- Thyroid disease:
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medical
- discordant test results chart; ambulatory screening tests decision tree.
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tumors & prognosis calculation
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Urinary/Urology and Testicular
- penile, scrotal, & perineal lesions, biopsy & lab testing
- urinary tract stones...reference lab analysis..&..causes & prevention by type of stone.
- bladder cancer office-based screening test decision tree.
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