erroneous diagnosis

The erroneous diagnosis, he later said, was more political than medical.

The parents said at the time that an erroneous diagnosis said the girl suffered from parasites.

It is not uncommon for the erroneous diagnoses of malingering or cortical blindness to be made.

Experts said the variation in testing could lead to erroneous diagnoses and subject patients to expensive, unnecessary and potentially hazardous treatment.

About half of our patients had attended hospital on several occasions when either no satisfactory diagnosis was established or an erroneous diagnosis was made.

There are numerous variables in the testing procedure that may affect the validity of the test results and may result in a missed or erroneous diagnosis.

By his few expressions of regret it appears that he cannot forgive himself for his careless acceptance of the erroneous diagnosis of my affliction.

To the Editor: Your article perpetuates a dangerous equation of psychosis with schizophrenia, reflecting assumptions that contribute to erroneous diagnoses of schizophrenia in manic-depressive cases.

Mach effect can also lead to an erroneous diagnosis of pneumothorax by creating a dark line at the lung periphery (whereas a true pneumothorax will have a white pleural line).

Laura Daly, a woman from Missouri, suffered from an inherited disorder in which the gall bladder was not properly attached; the resultant complications led to multiple erroneous diagnoses of AN.

After application of a cycloplegic agent to keep the ciliary muscle in relaxed position and avoid the erroneous diagnosis of a pseudomyopia, the patient takes a seat and places their chin on a rest.

After graduation in 1852 he served two years in the army as an officer in the East India Company in Bombay, but his military career ended in his erroneous diagnosis of aortic aneurysm.

Initially admitted to the Royal Sussex Hospital, Brighton, he was transferred to St Francis' Hospital, Haywards Heath, where he underwent a craniotomy following the erroneous diagnosis of a brain haemorrhage.

Following her husband to his native land, Burney sent home long, richly detailed accounts of life in postrevolutionary France, as well as a riveting account of her harrowing mastectomy, performed without anesthetic of any sort after a possibly erroneous diagnosis of cancer.

F.D.A. officials said they did not have any evidence that consumers had been harmed by errors tied to the test kits, but the agency feared that the manufacturing process was so deficient as to raise doubts about its effectiveness and pose the risk of creating test kits that could result in faulty or erroneous diagnoses.