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Allred score
The Allred score is a histopathological scoring method for estrogen and progesterone receptor status in breast cancer, combining staining proportion and intensity into a total from 0 to 8.
Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index
The Bath Ankylosing Spondylitis Functional Index (BASFI) is a ten-question, patient-completed questionnaire measuring functional ability in ankylosing spondylitis, scored 0 to 10 with higher scores meaning more severe limitation.
Clinical Frailty Scale
The Clinical Frailty Scale is a 9-point bedside tool grading an older adult's frailty from very fit to terminally ill, developed in Canada and used in over 20 countries.
Electrogastrography
Electrogastrography (EGG) is a noninvasive method recording the stomach's electrical activity through skin electrodes on the abdomen, used to assess gastric rhythm disorders, though it has not become a routine clinical diagnostic test.
FLACC scale
The FLACC scale, standing for Face, Legs, Activity, Cry, and Consolability, is an observational pain scale for infants and young children, scoring five behaviors from 0 to 10.
Impedance manometry
Impedance manometry is a diagnostic technique that combines manometry with electrical impedance on a single catheter. It is used to evaluate dysphagia and reflux disease.
International Prognostic Index
The International Prognostic Index (IPI) is a five-factor clinical scoring system, published in 1993, that predicts survival in aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma, especially diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.
Penicillin skin testing
Penicillin skin testing is a diagnostic procedure that applies penicillin reagents to the skin by prick or intradermal injection to detect IgE-mediated hypersensitivity in suspected penicillin allergy.
Recurrence score
A recurrence score is a genomic test result, best known from the 21-gene Oncotype DX assay for early breast cancer, that estimates distant recurrence risk and chemotherapy benefit.
RYTHMIC study
RYTHMIC study: 2024 RYTHMIC/ITMIG reproducibility study of pT staging of thymic epithelial tumors under the 8th UICC/AJCC TNM system; none of 15 cases agreed by all experts, kappa rose 0.13 to 0.48.
Stereo electroencephalography
Stereo electroencephalography (SEEG) is an invasive brain monitoring technique using depth electrodes through small skull holes to locate the seizure onset zone in drug-resistant focal epilepsy.
WHO CNS5 classification
The WHO CNS5 classification is the World Health Organization's 2021 standard for classifying brain and spinal cord tumors, combining histological and molecular features into an integrated diagnosis with a CNS WHO grade.