Items tagged “rg_38_3_new”
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von Hippel-Lindau disease (mnemonic)
Features of von Hippel-Lindau disease can be remembered by the mnemonic:
HIPPEL
Mnemonic:
H: hemangioblastoma of CNS
I: increased risk of renal cell cancer
P: pheochromocytoma
P: pancreatic lesions (cyst, cystadenoma, cystadenocarcinoma, neuro-endocrine tumors)
E: eye and ear dysfunction ...
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Lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces
Lung cancer associated with cystic airspaces, rather than a distinct disease, represents a spectrum of radiological patterns of tumor growth mainly characterized by lesions arising or abutting the walls of cystic airspaces. Attention to this pattern has been brought in recent decades primarily d...
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Iliopsoas bursitis
Iliopsoas bursitis usually presents as non-specific anterior hip pain and can be due to a number of causes, the three main causes being acute trauma, overuse injuries, and rheumatoid arthritis.
Pathology
Iliopsoas bursitis can occur primarily, e.g. overuse, secondary to a snapping iliopsoas te...
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Propionic acidemia
Propionic acidemia is a rare organic acidemia caused by a deficiency in the enzyme propionyl coenzyme A carboxylase.
Epidemiology
Propionic acidemia has an incidence of around 1 in 150,000 in the general population 1.
Clinical presentation
Around 80% of children with propionic acidemia wi...