8 Terms
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Diseases
POEMS syndrome
Health care; Diseases
A multisystemic disorder characterised by a sensorimotor polyneuropathy (polyneuropathies), organomegaly, endocrinopathy, monoclonal gammopathy, and pigmentary skin changes. Other clinical features ...
Polycythemia vera
Health care; Diseases
A myeloproliferative disorder of unknown etiology, characterised by abnormal proliferation of all hematopoietic bone marrow elements and an absolute increase in red cell mass and total blood volume, ...
Wegener's granulomatosis
Health care; Diseases
A multisystem disease chiefly affecting males, characterised by necrotizing granulomatous vasculitis involving the upper and lower respiratory tracts, glomerulonephritis, and variable degrees of ...
Mucinous cystadenoma
Health care; Diseases
A multilocular tumour with mucin secreting epithelium. They are most often found in the ovary, but are also found in the pancreas, appendix, and rarely, retroperitoneal and in the urinary bladder. ...
Paracoccidioidomycosis
Health care; Diseases
A mycosis affecting the skin, mucous membranes, lymph nodes, and internal organs. It is caused by Paracoccidioides brasiliensis. It is also called paracoccidioidal granuloma. Superficial resemblance ...
Prurigo
Health care; Diseases
A name applied to several itchy skin eruptions of unknown cause. The characteristic course is the formation of a dome-shaped papule with a small transient vesicle on top, followed by crusting over or ...
Acute erythroblastic leukaemia
Health care; Diseases
A myeloproliferative disorder characterised by neoplastic proliferation of erythroblastic and myeloblastic elements with atypical erythroblasts and myeloblasts in the peripheral blood.
