Diagnosis is the process of identifying the disease, disorder, or condition responsible for a patient's signs and symptoms, integrating clinical history, physical examination, laboratory testing, imaging, and increasingly molecular and genomic analysis. It rests on the systematic interpretation of evidence: generati…
Diagnosis is the process of identifying the disease, disorder, or condition responsible for a patient's signs and symptoms, integrating clinical history, physical examination, laboratory testing, imaging, and increasingly molecular and genomic analysis. It rests on the systematic interpretation of evidence: generating a differential, applying diagnostic criteria, and weighing test characteristics such as sensitivity, specificity, and predictive value to confirm or exclude candidate conditions. Modern diagnostics span laboratory assays, histopathology and cytopathology, functional and cross-sectional imaging, and the detection of biomarkers and pathogen-specific or somatic mutations. Accurate and timely diagnosis determines prognosis and guides therapy, while diagnostic error, delay, and disparity remain important sources of avoidable harm. The field continually refines its tools to distinguish overlapping presentations, characterise rare entities, and personalise management. Peer-reviewed research published in this area illustrates this breadth, addressing laboratory diagnosis of immune thrombocytopenia, molecular diagnosis of thyroid cancer, combined PET/CT and immunochemical evaluation of malignancy, MR-enterography in Crohn's disease, prenatal three-dimensional ultrasound and Doppler imaging, disclosure and diagnosis in HIV care, and bioinformatics approaches to disease diagnosis, together reflecting the multidisciplinary, evidence-driven character of Clinical and Diagnostic Pathology.
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