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Chronic idiopathic jaundice
Health care; Diseases
A benign, autosomally recessive inherited hyperbilirubinemia characterised by the presence of a dark pigment in the centrilobular region of the liver cells. There is a functional defect in biliary ...
Pleomorphic adenoma
Health care; Diseases
A benign, slow-growing tumor, most commonly of the salivary gland, occurring as a small, painless, firm nodule, usually of the parotid gland, but also found in any major or accessory salivary gland ...
Melanotic neuroectodermal tumour
Health care; Diseases
A benign, rapidly growing, deeply pigmented tumour of the jaw and occasionally of other sites, consisting of an infiltrating mass of cells arranged in an alveolar pattern, and occurring almost ...
Acidophil adenoma
Health care; Diseases
A benign tumor, usually found in the anterior lobe of the pituitary gland, whose cells stain with acid dyes. Such pituitary tumours may give rise to excessive secretion of growth hormone, resulting ...
Syringoma
Health care; Diseases
A benign tumour of the sweat glands which is usually multiple and results from malformation of sweat ducts. It is uncommon and more common in females than in males. It is most likely to appear at ...
Lymphangioma
Health care; Diseases
A benign tumour representing a congenital malformation of the lymphatic system and made up of newly formed lymph-containing vascular spaces and channels. Lymphangioendothelioma is a type of ...
Necrotizing sialometaplasia
Health care; Diseases
A benign, inflammatory, variably ulcerated, occasionally bilateral, self-healing lesion of the minor salivary glands that is often confused clinically and histologically with carcinoma.
