Cervical Spine Inhomogeneously Enhancing Lesion: Avoiding Confirmation Bias

Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek information and evidence in order to confirm a preexisting hypothesis while giving less importance and overlook an alternative solution. This report describes the case of a 52-year-old man with a long history of neck pain and bilateral upper limbs paresthesi...

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Autores principales: Penner, Federica, Zeppa, Pietro, Cofano, Fabio, Bianconi, Andrea, Ajello, Marco, Zenga, Francesco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8803509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35110934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1741489
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author Penner, Federica
Zeppa, Pietro
Cofano, Fabio
Bianconi, Andrea
Ajello, Marco
Zenga, Francesco
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description Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek information and evidence in order to confirm a preexisting hypothesis while giving less importance and overlook an alternative solution. This report describes the case of a 52-year-old man with a long history of neck pain and bilateral upper limbs paresthesias with a cervical intracanal inhomogeneously enhancing lesion. Despite all the preoperative radiological findings, a spinal meningioma an anterior approach was performed. The mass ended up being a large migrated hernia with the involvement of two levels. Before suggesting treatment, especially surgery, physicians and practitioners need to evaluate all of the possible alternatives in order to optimize patient outcome.
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spelling pubmed-88035092022-02-01 Cervical Spine Inhomogeneously Enhancing Lesion: Avoiding Confirmation Bias Penner, Federica Zeppa, Pietro Cofano, Fabio Bianconi, Andrea Ajello, Marco Zenga, Francesco J Neurosci Rural Pract Confirmation bias is the tendency to seek information and evidence in order to confirm a preexisting hypothesis while giving less importance and overlook an alternative solution. This report describes the case of a 52-year-old man with a long history of neck pain and bilateral upper limbs paresthesias with a cervical intracanal inhomogeneously enhancing lesion. Despite all the preoperative radiological findings, a spinal meningioma an anterior approach was performed. The mass ended up being a large migrated hernia with the involvement of two levels. Before suggesting treatment, especially surgery, physicians and practitioners need to evaluate all of the possible alternatives in order to optimize patient outcome. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2022-01-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8803509/ /pubmed/35110934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1741489 Text en Association for Helping Neurosurgical Sick People. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Cervical Spine Inhomogeneously Enhancing Lesion: Avoiding Confirmation Bias
title Cervical Spine Inhomogeneously Enhancing Lesion: Avoiding Confirmation Bias
title_full Cervical Spine Inhomogeneously Enhancing Lesion: Avoiding Confirmation Bias
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title_short Cervical Spine Inhomogeneously Enhancing Lesion: Avoiding Confirmation Bias
title_sort cervical spine inhomogeneously enhancing lesion: avoiding confirmation bias
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