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A cryptogenic disease is a disease of which the cause is unknown. It may be used in a particular case when the nature of the patient’s condition is known but the cause has not been found (e.g. cryptogenic stroke). The word cryptogenic also appears in the names of some disease entities when the situation is sufficiently common to be considered a diagnosis in its own right (e.g.

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