List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 15

Typical pulmonary carcinoid tumour is a subtype of pulmonary carcinoid tumor. It is an uncommon low-grade malignant lung mass that is most often in the central airways of the lung.It […]

Geomelophagia is an unusual pica (medical eating disorder) in iron-deficiency anemia and is characterized by abnormal ingestion of raw potatoes.

A dysfunctional epiglottis is when the epiglottis the flap that separates the trachea from the esophagus stops working correctly. This causes food to mistakenly go down the trachea when swallowing […]

Uterine adenosarcoma also adenosarcoma of the uterus and Müllerian adenosarcoma of the uterus is an uncommon form of cancer that arises from mesenchymal tissue of the uterus and has a […]

Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma abbreviated ca ex PA is a type of cancer typically found in the parotid gland. It arises from the benign tumour pleomorphic adenoma. Its prognosis depends […]

Rotavirus enteritis is the most common cause of severe diarrhoea among infants and young children. It is caused by Rotavirus a genus of double-stranded RNA virus in the family Reoviridae. […]

As of April 2012 multiple press sources reported an outbreak of an unidentified skin disease in the Ba Tơ District of Quảng Ngãi Province Vietnam. The disease is reported to […]

Spinal muscular atrophy with lower extremity predominance (SMA-LED) is an extremely rare neuromuscular disorder of infants characterised by severe progressive muscle atrophy which is especially prominent in legs.The disorder is […]

A placental infarction results from the interruption of blood supply to a part of the placenta causing its cells to die. Small placental infarcts especially at the edge of the […]

An otic polyp (also called aural polyp) is a benign proliferation of chronic inflammatory cells associated with granulation tissue in response to a longstanding inflammatory process of the middle ear.