QD Clinic - When Labs and Exam are Discordant

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A patient whose labs are way scary but her exam is not

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David H Sikes MD

| Mar 04, 2022 7:36 am

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Jack, this is the perfect clinical situation to perform a musculoskeletal ultrasound. Many of these patients will have power doppler and those should respond more favorably to treatment. The US is better than my exam. We use a tech performed study, who has the time to do the scan ourselves?

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