Items tagged “inflammatory”
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Trigger finger
Trigger fingers are a type of stenosing tenosynovitis involving the flexor digitorum superficialis at the level of the A1 pulley. It develops due to repetitive microinjury from frequent flexion-extension movements of the fingers and/or thumb.
Epidemiology
Risk factors
diabetes
obesity
femal...
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Polyarteritis nodosa
Polyarteritis nodosa is a systemic inflammatory necrotizing vasculitis that involves small to medium-sized arteries (larger than arterioles).
Epidemiology
Polyarteritis nodosa is more common in males and typically presents around the 5th to 7th decades. 20-30% of patients are hepatitis B anti...
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Subacute thyroiditis
Subacute thyroiditis (plural is thyroiditides) is used for several different causes of thyroiditis.
granulomatous (de Quervain) thyroiditis
silent thyroiditis
postpartum thyroiditis