"False Positive Reactions" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Positive test results in subjects who do not possess the attribute for which the test is conducted. The labeling of healthy persons as diseased when screening in the detection of disease. (Last, A Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D005189
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.354.506
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| Concept/Terms |
False Positive Reactions- False Positive Reactions
- False Positive Reaction
- Positive Reaction, False
- Positive Reactions, False
- Reaction, False Positive
- Reactions, False Positive
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "False Positive Reactions" by people in Profiles.
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Improved False-Positive Rates and the Overestimation of Unintended Harm from Lung Cancer Screening. Lung. 2019 06; 197(3):327-332.
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Should We Separate the Pulmonary Surveillance Protocol for Postsurgical T1a and T1b Renal Cell Carcinoma? A Multicenter Database Analysis. Urology. 2018 Dec; 122:127-132.
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Predictors of false-positive stroke thrombectomy transfers. J Neurointerv Surg. 2017 Sep; 9(9):834-836.
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False Increase of Estradiol Levels in a 36-Year-Old Postmenopausal Patient With Estrogen Receptor-Positive Breast Cancer Treated With Fulvestrant. Clin Breast Cancer. 2016 Feb; 16(1):e11-3.
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Current utility of diagnostic catheter cerebral angiography. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2014 Mar; 23(3):e145-50.
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Examining the Binge Eating Scale in screening for binge eating disorder in bariatric surgery candidates. Obes Surg. 2013 Jan; 23(1):1-6.
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MIRA-assisted microarray analysis, a new technology for the determination of DNA methylation patterns, identifies frequent methylation of homeodomain-containing genes in lung cancer cells. Cancer Res. 2006 Aug 15; 66(16):7939-47.
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Fine-needle aspiration of clinically suspicious palpable breast masses with histopathologic correlation. Am J Surg. 2002 Nov; 184(5):410-3.
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Fine-needle aspiration of 697 palpable breast lesions with histopathologic correlation. Surgery. 1997 Oct; 122(4):824-8.
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Tc-99m MIBI accumulation in remnant thymus. A cause of false-positive interpretation in parathyroid imaging. Clin Nucl Med. 1995 Apr; 20(4):379-80.