liver fibrosis, liver fibrogenesis
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hepatic fibrosis
11 March 2004 -
digestive cystic fibrosis
9 February 2005Definition: Cystic fibrosis (CF), the most common lethal autosomal recessive disease in white populations, is characterized by dysfunctional chloride ion transport across epithelial surfaces.
Although recurrent pulmonary infections and pulmonary insufficiency are the principal causes of morbidity and death, gastrointestinal symptoms commonly precede the pulmonary findings and may suggest the diagnosis in infants and young children.
The protean gastrointestinal manifestations of CF result (...) -
deep-penetrating nevus
1 July 2004plexiform spindle cell nevus
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caseous necrosis
16 September 2005Caseous necrosis is a distinctive form of coagulative necrosis, is encountered most often in foci of tuberculous infection.
The term caseous is derived from the cheesy white gross appearance of the area of necrosis.
On microscopic examination, the necrotic focus appears as amorphous granular debris seemingly composed of fragmented, coagulated cells and amorphous granular debris enclosed within a distinctive inflammatory border known as a granulomatous reaction. Unlike coagulative (...) -
Marfan disease
17 November 2003Marfan’s disease, Marfan syndrome
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abscess
9 June 2004abcesses
Definition: Abscesses are localized collections of purulent inflammatory tissue caused by suppuration buried in a tissue, an organ, or a confined space. They are produced by deep seeding of pyogenic bacteria into a tissue.
Abscesses have a central region that appears as a mass of necrotic leukocytes and tissue cells. There is usually a zone of preserved neutrophils around this necrotic focus, and outside this region vascular dilation and parenchymal and fibroblastic proliferation (...) -
thymic seminoma
6 June 2006See also
germinal tumors seminoma
thymic tumors thymic germinal tumors
mediastinal tumors mediastinal germinal tumors mediastinal seminoma -
progressive transformation of germinal centers
15 December 2003PTGC, progressive transformation of germinal center
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ovarian teratoma
10 March 2004ovarian teratomas; OT; OTs; ovarian pure teratoma
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granulomatous adenitis with caseous necrosis
8 March 2007Etiology
mycobacterial adenitis
See also
adenitis granulomatous adenitis caseous necrosis