List of articles in "Disease" category - Page 264

A pinguecula is a common type of conjunctival degeneration in the eye.

A urachal cyst is a sinus remaining from the allantois during embryogenesis. It is a cyst which occurs in the remnants between the umbilicus and bladder. This is a type […]

Athletic heart syndrome (AHS) also known as athlete’s heart athletic bradycardia or exercise-induced cardiomegaly is a non-pathological condition commonly seen in sports medicine in which the human heart is enlarged […]

Unverricht–Lundborg disease (abbreviated ULD or EPM1) is the most common form of an uncommon group of genetic epilepsy disorders called the progressive myoclonus epilepsies. It is caused due to a […]

Ocular ischemic syndrome is the constellation of ocular signs and symptoms secondary to severe chronic arterial hypoperfusion to the eye. Amaurosis fugax is a form of acute vision loss caused […]

Ocular larva migrans is the ocular form of the larva migrans syndrome that occurs when toxocara canis larvae invade the eye. They may be associated with visceral larva migrans. Unilateral […]

A blowout fracture is a fracture of the walls or floor of the orbit. Intraorbital material may be pushed out into one of the paranasal sinuses. This is most commonly […]

A Paget’s abscess named by eminent British surgeon and pathologist Sir James Paget is an abscess that recurs at the site of a former abscess which had resolved.

The term Vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia (VIN) refers to particular changes that can occur in the skin that covers the vulva. VIN is not cancer and in some women it disappears […]

Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) also known as haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (British spelling) and hemophagocytic or haemophagocytic syndrome is an uncommon hematologic disorder. It is a life threatening disease of severe hyperinflammation caused […]