"Artifacts" 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.
Any visible result of a procedure which is caused by the procedure itself and not by the entity being analyzed. Common examples include histological structures introduced by tissue processing, radiographic images of structures that are not naturally present in living tissue, and products of chemical reactions that occur during analysis.
| Descriptor ID |
D016477
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.047
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Artifacts" by people in Profiles.
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Rising Early-onset Colorectal Cancer Incidence Is Not an Artifact of Increased Screening Colonoscopy Use in a Large, Diverse Healthcare System. Gastroenterology. 2022 01; 162(1):325-327.e3.
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Comorbidity Index Score Increases Due to Coding Artifacts. Epidemiology. 2020 03; 31(2):e13-e15.
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Navel jewelry artifacts and intravertebral variation in spine bone densitometry in adolescents and young women. J Clin Densitom. 2009 Jan-Mar; 12(1):84-8.
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Towards improved biomarker studies of cervical neoplasia: effects of precolposcopic procedures on gene expression patterns. Diagn Mol Pathol. 2005 Jun; 14(2):59-64.