Specimen diagnosis

A specimen diagnosis is a diagnosis that can be guessed reliably from the history, as the differential diagnosis is very short and one entity is the diagnosis in the vast majority of cases.

Site	Diagnosis	Notes
Atrial mass	atrial myxoma
Subscapular	elastofibroma	elderly woman; other (shoulder region) diagnoses: pleomorphic lipoma, Desmoplastic fibroblastoma
Temporal artery	giant cell arteritis
Subungual tumour	glomus tumour	painful
Ischemic leg	atherosclerosis
Olecranon subcutaneous nodule	rheumatoid nodule

See also

• Diagnosis
• Spot diagnosis