News tagged with diagnostic evaluation


Upper lumbar disc space related to hip pain

(HealthDay)—Disc space narrowing at disc levels L1/L2 and L2/L3, visible on lumbar radiographs, may help to identify hip pain patients whose pain originates in the lumbar spine, according to research published ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Unexplained intellectual disability explained by state-of-the-art genetic analysis

A research team reported that next generation sequencing of the exome, the 1 to 2% of the DNA containing the genes that code for proteins, enabled the identification of the genetic causes of unexplained intellectual disability ...

Genetics created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Etiologic diagnosis of nonsyndromic genetic hearing loss in adult vs pediatric populations

Genetic testing for a certain mutation in pediatric patients is valuable in determining a cause for unexplained hearing loss, according to a study in the November 2012 issue of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery.

Surgery created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0