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Astrocytomas are a type of cancer of the brain. They originate in a particular kind of glial cells star-shaped brain cells in the cerebrum called astrocytes. This type of tumor […]

Nocardiosis is an infectious disease affecting either the lungs (pulmonary nocardiosis) or the whole body (systemic nocardiosis). It is due to infection by bacterium of the genus Nocardia most commonly […]

Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) WHO classification name glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive malignant primary brain tumor in humans involving glial cells and accounting for 52% of all functional […]

The term lordosis refers to the normal inward curvature of the lumbar and cervical regions of the spine.Excessive or hyperlordosis can happen and this is commonly referred to as swayback […]

Hyperalgesia (/ˌhaɪpərælˈdʒiziə/ or /-siə/; ‘hyper’ from Greek ὑπέρ (huper “over”) ‘-algesia’ from Greek algos ἄλγος (pain)) is an increased sensitivity to pain which may be caused by damage to nociceptors […]

Meningiomas are a diverse set of tumors arising from the meninges the membranous layers surrounding the central nervous system. They arise from the arachnoid cap cells of the arachnoid villi […]

Small-cell carcinoma (also known as small-cell lung cancer or oat-cell carcinoma) is a type of highly malignant cancer that most commonly arises within the lung although it can occasionally arise […]

Ependymoma is a tumor that arises from the ependyma a tissue of the central nervous system. Usually in pediatric cases the location is intracranial while in adults it is spinal. […]

Oligodendrogliomas are a type of glioma that are believed to originate from the oligodendrocytes of the brain or from a glial precursor cell. They occur primarily in adults (9.4% of […]

A prolactinoma is a benign tumor (adenoma) of the pituitary gland that produces a hormone called prolactin. It is the most common type of pituitary tumor. Symptoms of prolactinoma are […]