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Lymphatics of the colon (Gray's illustration)
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11 Jan 2021
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Diagram
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Extranodal lesions in lymphoma - Lugano classification
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07 Jun 2016
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Typhlitis (neutropaenic colitis)
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05 Jan 2015
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Diathesis
Diathesis (plural: diatheses) is a term used to describe a state in which there is an increased chance of something happening. Contemporaneously, the word is used as a synonym for the word predisposition; however the term predates a modern understanding of genetics or pathology 1.
Most commonly...
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Hand-foot syndrome (sickle cell disease)
Hand-foot syndrome, also simply referred to as dactylitis, is a self-limiting manifestation of a vaso-occlusive crisis in individuals with sickle cell anemia.
Terminology
Dactylitis is not a specific finding in sickle cell disease, therefore cautious usage is advised if one chooses to employ i...
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Sickle cell disease
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25 Dec 2020
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Avascular necrosis of bilateral femoral heads
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13 Apr 2017
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MRI
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Primary pulmonary large B-cell lymphoma - cavitating lesions
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11 Aug 2018
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Nuclear medicine
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Acute myeloid leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), also referred to as acute myelogenous leukemia, is a hematological malignancy characterized by the abnormal clonal proliferation of immature myeloid precursors (myeloblasts) or poorly differentiated cells of the hematopoietic system. It primary infiltrates the bone ...
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Acute chest syndrome - sickle cell disease
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28 Aug 2020
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Splenic granulomatous disease
Splenic granulomatous disease refers to sequelae arising from granulomatous infection-inflammation of the spleen.
They are a result of:
infective
splenic tuberculosis
splenic histoplasmosis
splenic brucellosis
non-infective
splenic sarcoidosis
Radiographic features
General
In latent s...
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Gastric, small bowel, and nodal lymphoma
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17 Apr 2019
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Multiple myeloma
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26 Jan 2020
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Ariboflavinosis
Ariboflavinosis is the term given to riboflavin (vitamin B2) deficiency.
Epidemiology
Ariboflavinosis has been seen in both developed and developing countries, and across the socioeconomic spectrum. It is usually present in the context of other hypovitaminoses.
It has been found to more comm...
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Dengue fever
Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne acute systemic viral infection caused by any of the four serotypes of the dengue virus.
Epidemiology
Dengue virus infections occur predominately in tropical and subtropical regions 3.
Clinical presentation
The infection can lead to a broad spectrum of sympto...
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Multiple myeloma
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15 Mar 2020
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Antithrombin III deficiency
Antithrombin (AT) III deficiency (now simply called antithrombin deficiency) refers to a congenital lack of the endogenous anticoagulant antithrombin.
Epidemiology
Antithrombin deficiency is considered the least common of the three main anticoagulant deficiencies (the other two being protein C...
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Hamburger sign in patient with CLL
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03 Feb 2014
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Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm
Blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) is a rare hematological malignancy. It was previously termed as blastic natural-killer lymphoma or agranular CD4+ natural killer cell leukemia.
Epidemiology
It only represent a very small proportion (~0.44%) of all hematological malignancies...
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Acute promyelocytic leukemia
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML) is a distinct subtype of acute myeloid leukemia.
Pathology
Genetics
It is defined by a balanced translocation between chromosomes 15 and 17 resulting in fusion of the promyelocytic leukemia gene (PML) on chromosome 15 with the retinoic acid receptor alpha g...
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