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Laennec’s cirrhosis is named after René Laennec a French physician and the inventor of the stethoscope. It is a disease of the liver in which the normal lobular architecture is […]

Congenital hepatic fibrosis is an inherited fibrocystic liver disease associated with proliferation of interlobular bile ducts within the portal areas and fibrosis that do not alter hepatic lobular architecture. The […]

Young’s syndrome also known as azoospermia sinopulmonary infections sinusitis-infertility syndrome and Barry-Perkins-Young syndrome is a rare condition that encompasses a combination of syndromes such as bronchiectasis rhinosinusitis and reduced fertility. […]

Gingival enlargement (also termed gingival overgrowth hypertrophic gingivitis gingival hyperplasia or gingival hypertrophy and sometimes abbreviated to GO) is an increase in the size of the gingiva (gums). It is […]

Solar urticaria (SU) is a rare condition in which exposure to ultraviolet or UV radiation or sometimes even visible light induces a case of urticaria or hives that can appear […]

Yushō disease (油症) (literally oil symptoms) was a mass poisoning by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) which occurred in northern Kyūshū Japan in 1968. In January 1968 rice bran oil produced by […]

2q37 deletion syndrome is a disorder caused by the deletion of a small piece of chromosome 2.It has been associated with Wilms’ tumor and brachydactyly.

Xanthosis is a type of skin-related disease where one has an abnormal yellow discolouration of the skin resulting from the accumulation of cholesterol within the skin cells. It can also […]

Hydropneumothorax implies presence of both air and fluid in the pleural space ( i.e. between two layers of pleura. An erect chest x-ray will show the air fluid level. The […]

Pulsus alternans is a physical finding with arterial pulse waveform showing alternating strong and weak beats. It is almost always indicative of left ventricular systolic impairment and carries a poor […]