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- Title
Tissue, Teamwork, and Timing: an Exercise in Clinical Reasoning.
- Authors
Ahmad, Tessnim R.; Kazberouk, Alexander; Santhosh, Lekshmi; Hsu, Gerald; Dhaliwal, Gurpreet
- Abstract
Even if a tissue diagnosis is made from the pancreatic mass, a diagnostic pause will be warranted to re-assess whether the working diagnosis fully explains the patient's signs and symptoms. Even if the pancreatic mass histology shows adenocarcinoma, she is prepared to consider a synchronous malignancy or alternative diagnosis. i B Radiation oncology was consulted and the next day the patient received radiation therapy to the lumbosacral spine. Diagnosis requires comparing the patient (abstracted as a problem representation) with the illness scripts for candidate diagnoses. He did not have lower extremity weakness or urinary retention or incontinence. b The patient is a middle-aged man with subacute worsening of his chronic low back pain with red flag symptoms of weight loss and fecal incontinence.
- Subjects
CHRONIC pancreatitis; LYMPHADENITIS; MEDICAL personnel; MEDICAL logic; DIFFUSE large B-cell lymphomas; MAGNETIC resonance imaging; CHRONIC pain
- Publication
JGIM: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2021, Vol 36, Issue 9, p2839
- ISSN
0884-8734
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s11606-021-06817-2