Items tagged “overview”
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Arteriovenous malformation
Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are characterized by an abnormal leash of vessels allowing for arteriovenous shunting. They can occur anywhere in the body but are most common in the brain 1. There is direct arteriovenous communication with no intervening capillary bed. They can be congenital ...
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Avulsion injury
Avulsion injuries or fractures occur where the joint capsule, ligament, tendon or muscle attachment site is pulled off from the bone, usually taking a fragment of cortical bone. Avulsion fractures are commonly distracted due to the high tensile forces involved. There are numerous sites at which ...
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Osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA), also known as degenerative joint disease (DJD), is the most common form of arthritis, being widely prevalent with high morbidity and social cost.
Terminology
Some authors prefer the term osteoarthrosis instead of osteoarthritis as some authors do not believe in an inflamm...
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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
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Fibrosarcoma
Fibrosarcomas are malignant tumors of fibroblast origin. They are a type of soft tissue sarcoma that can be grouped by patient age, i.e. adult fibrosarcoma and infantile fibrosarcoma, and/or anatomical region, for example:
fibrosarcoma of the breast
fibrosarcoma of the chest wall
fibrosarcoma...
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Glenoid labral tear
Glenoid labral tears are the injuries of the glenoid labrum and a possible cause of shoulder pain.
Clinical presentation
Patients with labral tears may present with a wide range of symptoms (depends on the injury type), which are often non-specific:
pain or discomfort (usually a precise point...
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Enteric duplication cyst
Enteric duplication cyst is a broad term for a number of congenital cystic lesions that arise along the gastrointestinal tract. Please see individual articles for further information:
foregut duplication cyst
midgut duplication cyst
tailgut duplication cyst
See also
fetal enteric d...
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Rhabdomyoma
Rhabdomyomas are rare benign mesenchymal tumors that can be classified as:
cardiac rhabdomyoma
extracardiac (non-cardiac) rhabdomyoma
adult rhabdomyoma
fetal rhabdomyoma
genital rhabdomyoma
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Hip impingement syndromes (overview)
There are several different impingement syndromes of and around the hip, which are all characterized by a painful reduction of motion in the hip joint 1:
femoroacetabular impingement (FAI)
ischiofemoral impingement
subspine (anterior inferior iliac spine) impingement
greater trochanteric-pel...
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Thumb pathology
Thumb pathology is wide and includes all lesions involving the tendons, ligaments, muscles, bone, and articulations of the thumb.
congenital
triphalangeal thumb
absent thumb
tendon tear/rupture
Stener lesion
yo-yo on a string sign
fractures of the thumb
Bennett fracture-dislocation
Rola...
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Non-expandable lung
Non-expandable lung results from failure of the lung to re-expand even despite a therapeutic measure such as insertion of a chest tube. This can include two semantically similar but slightly different terms:
trapped lung: non-expandable lung due to remote / prior pleural inflammation
lung entr...