While some unusual or rare diseases may be overlooked, economics and time make it impossible to test for every possible alternative diagnosis.

Possible alternative diagnosis for an abduction deficit would include:

Diagnosis is made by neurologists who carefully rule out alternative diagnoses.

If you weren't one of us we'd be turning you straight over to the surgeons with an alternative diagnosis.

A sustained increased white blood cell count may indicate an alternative diagnosis such as infection.

But that was little comfort when the alternative diagnosis was shame and fear.

An alternative diagnosis is dysmelia - a condition that produces short arms and legs.

If the patient is still experiencing symptoms, additional evaluation and alternative diagnoses should be considered.

It is important that in the absence of ureterolithiasis, particular care should be taken to rule out alternative diagnosis for flank pain.

The alternative diagnosis of eight tumors in our series and similar trends in other series is interesting.