"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 | 1 | 16 | 17 |
| 1996 | 0 | 25 | 25 |
| 1997 | 0 | 16 | 16 |
| 1998 | 0 | 15 | 15 |
| 1999 | 0 | 24 | 24 |
| 2000 | 0 | 30 | 30 |
| 2001 | 0 | 39 | 39 |
| 2002 | 0 | 25 | 25 |
| 2003 | 0 | 32 | 32 |
| 2004 | 0 | 38 | 38 |
| 2005 | 0 | 46 | 46 |
| 2006 | 0 | 65 | 65 |
| 2007 | 0 | 53 | 53 |
| 2008 | 0 | 38 | 38 |
| 2009 | 0 | 42 | 42 |
| 2010 | 1 | 43 | 44 |
| 2011 | 0 | 62 | 62 |
| 2012 | 3 | 50 | 53 |
| 2013 | 3 | 51 | 54 |
| 2014 | 0 | 49 | 49 |
| 2015 | 0 | 52 | 52 |
| 2016 | 0 | 41 | 41 |
| 2017 | 0 | 45 | 45 |
| 2018 | 0 | 42 | 42 |
| 2019 | 1 | 47 | 48 |
| 2020 | 1 | 30 | 31 |
| 2021 | 1 | 23 | 24 |
| 2022 | 0 | 11 | 11 |
| 2023 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | 22 | 22 |
| 2025 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Diagnosis, Differential" by people in Profiles.
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Allodynia: A Review Article. Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2025 Feb 18; 29(1):49.
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A 26-Year-Old Woman with Postpartum Abdominal Pain. NEJM Evid. 2025 Feb; 4(2):EVIDmr2400398.
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A 68-Year-Old Woman With a Rapidly Reaccumulating Pleural Effusion. Chest. 2024 Dec; 166(6):e191-e195.
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Clinical Reasoning: A 65-Year-Old Woman With Isolated Macroglossia as the Initial Presentation of a Rare Disease. Neurology. 2024 Dec 24; 103(12):e210070.
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Imaging of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension. Radiol Clin North Am. 2025 Mar; 63(2):223-234.
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Guidelines for Pathologic Diagnosis of Mesothelioma: 2023 Update of the Consensus Statement From the International Mesothelioma Interest Group. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2024 Nov 01; 148(11):1251-1271.
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ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Acute Onset of Scrotal Pain-Without Trauma, Without Antecedent Mass: 2024 Update. J Am Coll Radiol. 2024 Nov; 21(11S):S364-S371.
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STK11 Adnexal Tumor: Exploring the Association With Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome and its Distinction From Morphologic Mimickers. Adv Anat Pathol. 2025 Jan 01; 32(1):98-108.
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Swyer-James-MacLeod Syndrome in a Patient with Eisenmenger Syndrome. Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2024 Sep; 52(6):460-463.
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Validation of GenProb-T1D and its clinical utility for differentiating types of diabetes in a biobank from a US healthcare system. J Diabetes Investig. 2025 Jan; 16(1):10-15.