"Diagnosis, Differential" 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.
Determination of which one of two or more diseases or conditions a patient is suffering from by systematically comparing and contrasting results of diagnostic measures.
| Descriptor ID |
D003937
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E01.171
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Diagnosis, Differential".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Diagnosis, Differential".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Diagnosis, Differential" by people in this website by year, and whether "Diagnosis, Differential" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1995 | 0 | 21 | 21 |
| 1996 | 0 | 33 | 33 |
| 1997 | 0 | 18 | 18 |
| 1998 | 1 | 24 | 25 |
| 1999 | 0 | 23 | 23 |
| 2000 | 0 | 36 | 36 |
| 2001 | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2002 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2003 | 0 | 44 | 44 |
| 2004 | 0 | 29 | 29 |
| 2005 | 0 | 37 | 37 |
| 2006 | 0 | 53 | 53 |
| 2007 | 0 | 51 | 51 |
| 2008 | 1 | 64 | 65 |
| 2009 | 0 | 61 | 61 |
| 2010 | 0 | 48 | 48 |
| 2011 | 0 | 40 | 40 |
| 2012 | 0 | 59 | 59 |
| 2013 | 1 | 64 | 65 |
| 2014 | 2 | 54 | 56 |
| 2015 | 1 | 62 | 63 |
| 2016 | 3 | 59 | 62 |
| 2017 | 2 | 91 | 93 |
| 2018 | 2 | 81 | 83 |
| 2019 | 2 | 71 | 73 |
| 2020 | 1 | 51 | 52 |
| 2021 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| 2022 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| 2023 | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| 2024 | 0 | 26 | 26 |
| 2025 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Diagnosis, Differential" by people in Profiles.
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Approach to the Patient: From Endocrinopathy to the Diagnosis of a Histiocytic Disorder. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2025 May 19; 110(6):1756-1766.
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High Diagnostic Yield of Fine Needle Biopsy for Pancreatic Serous Cystadenomas-A Multicenter Study. Pancreas. 2025 Apr 01; 54(4):e349-e352.
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MR imaging of pediatric meniscal retears: pearls and pitfalls - a pictorial review. Pediatr Radiol. 2025 May; 55(6):1043-1053.
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AI-MET: A deep learning-based clinical decision support system for distinguishing multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children from endemic typhus. Comput Biol Med. 2025 Apr; 188:109815.
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Abusive Head Trauma. Pediatr Clin North Am. 2025 Jun; 72(3):451-465.
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Differential diagnosis in immune checkpoint inhibitors neurotoxicity. J Neurol. 2025 Jan 15; 272(2):116.
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The effect of a provisional diagnosis on intern diagnostic reasoning: a mixed methods study. Diagnosis (Berl). 2025 May 01; 12(2):208-216.
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Understanding BI-RADS Category 3. Radiographics. 2025 01; 45(1):e240169.
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Synaptophysin Positive Pulmonary Glomus Tumor Mimics Carcinoid Tumor on Fine-Needle Aspiration. Diagn Cytopathol. 2025 Apr; 53(4):E66-E69.
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Diagnostic challenges of high-grade myeloid malignancies with partial plasmacytoid dendritic cell differentiation: report of two cases with literature review. Leuk Lymphoma. 2025 Apr; 66(4):764-772.