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false-negative rate

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false-negative rate
Etymology: L, fallere, to deceive, negare, to deny, ratum, calculate
the rate of occurrence of negative test results in subjects known to have the disease or behavior for which an individual is being tested.


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Troponin testing, for example, has proven valuable because its false-negative rate is low.
Both needle techniques have a false-negative rate, mostly as a result of technical error or geographic mis-sampling.
The false-negative rate of conventional histology depends on the protocol followed for pathological examination of SLNs which varies considerably throughout Europe [7] and can be reduced by serial sections and immunohistochemistry (IHC).
 
 
 
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