Specimen diagnosis
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A specimen diagnosis is a diagnosis that can be guessed reliably from the history, as the differential diagnosis is very short and one entity is the diagnosis in the vast majority of cases.
| Site | Diagnosis | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Atrial mass | atrial myxoma | |
| Subscapular[1] | elastofibroma | elderly woman; other (shoulder region) diagnoses: pleomorphic lipoma, desmoplastic fibroblastoma |
| Temporal artery | giant cell arteritis | |
| Subungual tumour | glomus tumour | painful |
| Ischemic leg | atherosclerosis | |
| Olecranon subcutaneous nodule | rheumatoid nodule |
See also
References
- ↑ URL: http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1057113-overview. Accessed on: 26 October 2011.