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...

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