A diagnosis of exclusion or by exclusion (per exclusionem) is a diagnosis of a medical condition reached by a process of elimination, which may be necessary if presence cannot be established with complete confidence from history, examination or testing.

Testing for myriad disorders—benign and malignant, infectious, and rheumatic—all gave normal, negative, or nonspecific results. Faced with that strange and challenging story, the discussant considered many diagnostic possibilities.

2021年5月8日 · A diagnosis of exclusion is an expression that in general applies to that diagnosis that is left over after all other possible differential diagnoses have been excluded.

2022年5月12日 · A description of your symptoms and a physical exam testing for pain sensitivity at certain points on the body are ways health care providers can help make a fibromyalgia diagnosis. Still, the syndrome is also often considered a “diagnosis of exclusion.”

2018年10月26日 · Diagnosis : It is a diagnosis of a medical condition reached by a process of elimination, which may be necessary if presence cannot be established with complete confidence from history, examination or testing.

Familiarity with diagnoses of exclusion is useful in the evaluation for abdominal pain in the emergency department. Judiciously applied, these diagnoses of exclusion provide insight into patterns and pathology in patients with often repeated nondiagnostic visits to …

The term diagnosis of exclusion (per exclusionem) refers to a medical condition whose presence cannot be established with complete confidence from examination or testing. Diagnosis is therefore by elimination of other reasonable possibilities.

Diagnosis by exclusion, also known as differential diagnosis, is a process used in medicine to identify the presence of an entity where you cannot affirmatively determine it through direct observation or testing.

As a diagnosis of exclusion, it is important to rule out infectious etiology as well as malignant, metabolic, and toxic etiologies before arriving at the diagnosis of autoimmune encephalitis [3].

a diagnosis made by excluding those diseases to which only some of the patient's symptoms might belong, leaving one disease as the most likely diagnosis, although no definitive tests or findings establish that diagnosis.