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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-gordon-schiff-md
February 26, 2025 - On the other hand, take the case of Linda McDougal , whose breast biopsy was switched between two patients … She was diagnosed as having breast cancer, which she didn't have, and underwent a mastectomy. … A woman comes in with a breast lump and the doctor confirms its presence on physical exam and appropriately … But we now know that if there is a palpable breast lump, further workup has to be done even with a normal … simply reminds me about the pitfall related to false negative mammograms in the face of a palpable breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/hidden-heparins-hit-happens
March 27, 2024 - admission, the patient was found to be tachycardic and hypotensive, with excoriations of the skin over the breast … heparin was ever injected subcutaneously in this case, and the location of some of the lesions (e.g., breast … progressive, microvascular thrombosis ensues that typically leads to necrosis of the dermis overlying the breast … Case & Commentary: Part 3
Autopsy revealed thrombi in the vessels of the skin of breast and abdomen … microthrombi in dermal vessels strongly suggests that the skin lesions that were initially observed over the breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39857/psn-pdf
October 13, 2010 - This study compared complication rates in breast reduction surgery between surgical residents
and an
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wrong-site-surgery-1
September 02, 2020 - This commentary describes a case of wrong-site surgery , an erroneous breast biopsy, and the resulting
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/doctors-orders-killed-cancer-patient-dana-farber-admits-drug-overdose-caused-death-globe
March 10, 2021 - columnist, who fell victim to an inadvertent overdose of chemotherapy while receiving treatment for breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/74041/psn-pdf
October 16, 2015 - implicit-racialethnic-bias-among-health-care-professionals-and-its-influence-health-care
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/racial-disparities-diagnostic-delay-among-women-breast-cancer
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/845651/psn-pdf
November 17, 2016 - variability-diagnostic-error-rates-10-mri-centers-performing-lumbar-spine-mri-examinations
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/undiagnosed-breast-cancer-mr-imaging-analysis-causes
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/47415/psn-pdf
December 05, 2018 - https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evaluation-12-strategies-obtaining-second-opinions-improve-interpretation-breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44242/psn-pdf
January 08, 2016 - diagnostic-errors
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-concordance-among-pathologists-interpreting-breast-biopsy-specimens
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/42831/psn-pdf
October 31, 2014 - issue/preventing-overdiagnosis-how-stop-harming-healthy
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/possible-net-harms-breast-cancer-screening-updated-modelling-forrest-report
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46064/psn-pdf
April 19, 2017 - missed-diagnoses-acute-myocardial-infarction-emergency-department-variation-patient-and
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/process-care-failures-breast-cancer-diagnosis
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37425/psn-pdf
March 28, 2012 - diagnoses found that misdiagnosis of four common types of cancer—melanoma, as well
as cancer of the breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/fluidity-diagnostic-wet-reads
April 24, 2018 - Artifact
June 30, 2021
WebM&M Cases
Delayed Breast … December 23, 2020
The role of cognitive bias in breast radiology diagnostic and … Effect of using the same vs different order for second readings of screening mammograms on rates of breast … May 1, 2011
Missed breast cancers at US-guided core needle biopsy: how to reduce
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49525/psn-pdf
December 01, 2006 - admission, the patient was found to be tachycardic and hypotensive, with excoriations of the skin
over the breast … heparin was ever injected
subcutaneously in this case, and the location of some of the lesions (e.g., breast … progressive, microvascular thrombosis ensues that typically leads to necrosis of
the dermis overlying the breast … Case & Commentary: Part 3
Autopsy revealed thrombi in the vessels of the skin of breast and abdomen. … microthrombi in dermal vessels strongly suggests that the skin lesions
that were initially observed over the breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46904/psn-pdf
August 20, 2018 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-assessment-deep-learning-algorithms-detection-lymph-node-metastases-women-breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44131/psn-pdf
May 13, 2015 - The researchers used a large reliable
dataset for patients with a diagnosis of breast, colorectal, or
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41337/psn-pdf
May 29, 2012 - This qualitative study of patients
undergoing treatment for breast or colon cancer found that a significant
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46404/psn-pdf
December 07, 2017 - to
identify adverse events in cancer care through medical record review, using a random sample of breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/sepsis-smart
May 03, 2023 - 2023
Identifying patients whose symptoms are underrecognized during treatment with breast
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45797/psn-pdf
October 31, 2017 - errors-cancer-diagnosis-current-understanding-and-future-directions
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/process-care-failures-breast-cancer-diagnosis