Urgent referral for suspected CNS cancer: which clinical features are associated with a positive predictive value of 3 % or more?

BACKGROUND: Urgent referral for suspected central nervous system (CNS) cancer is recommended, but little analysis of the referral criteria diagnostic performance has been conducted. New 2015 NICE guidance recommends direct brain imaging for patients with symptoms with positive predictive values (PPV...

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Autores principales: Mohammad, Hasan Raza, Boardman, Jeremy, Howell, Laura, Mills, Roger J., Emsley, Hedley C. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27561306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-016-0677-1

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5000444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27561306
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12883-016-0677-1

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