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    Malignancy (from Latin male 'badly', and -gnus 'born') is the tendency of a medical condition to become progressively worse; the term is most familiar...
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  • Malignancy is an American technical death metal band from Yonkers, New York, formed in February 1992. Malignancy was formed in February 1992 by vocalist...
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    different approach in diagnosis and treatment of hematological malignancies. Hematological malignancies are malignant neoplasms ("cancer"), and they are generally...
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  • The Trousseau sign of malignancy or Trousseau's syndrome is a medical sign involving episodes of vessel inflammation due to blood clot (thrombophlebitis)...
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    Pancreatic cancer arises when cells in the pancreas, a glandular organ behind the stomach, begin to multiply out of control and form a mass. These cancerous...
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    warrant further investigation for malignancy. Occasionally, a physical examination may find the location of a malignancy. Diagnostic methods include: Biopsy...
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    an accumulation of fluid in the abdomen and lead to distension. If the malignancy has not been diagnosed by the time it causes ascites, it is typically...
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    develop as a paraneoplastic syndrome associated with several forms of malignancy. It is a type of inflammatory myopathy. Diagnosis is typically based on...
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    "Association Between Coeliac Disease and Risk of Any Malignancy and Gastrointestinal Malignancy: A Meta-Analysis". Medicine. 94 (38): e1612. doi:10.1097/MD...
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    a good predictor of malignancy. Malignancy is only diagnosed when ultrasound findings and FNAC report are suggestive of malignancy. The TI-RADS (Thyroid...
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    accompany (60%), or follow (22%) the onset of an internal cancer.: 506  Malignancy-associated acanthosis nigricans is usually rapid in onset and may be accompanied...
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  • Hypercalcemia of malignancy (cancer) is due to a variety of mechanisms. The two most common are humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy and local osteolytic...
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    purulent, turbid: Infection, empyema, pancreatitis, malignancy. Pink to red/bloody: Traumatic tap, malignancy, pulmonary infarction, intestinal infarction,...
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    metastatic. Alternatively, enlarged lymph nodes may represent a primary malignancy of the lymphatic system itself, such as lymphoma (both Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's)...
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    Retropharyngeal abscess Lymphadenopathy of cervical lymph nodes Thyroid malignancy Eagle syndrome Rabies Esophageal dysphagia Lumen Impacted foreign body...
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    Skin cancer (redirect from Skin malignancy)
    diagnosed form of oncopathology in humans and represents a wide range of malignancies. More than 40% of the total number of diagnosed cancers in the world...
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  • A urogenital pelvic malignancy is a regional lymph node involvement in urogenital malignancies (category N in the TNM classification system) is a significant...
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    Merkel cells, also known as Merkel-Ranvier cells or tactile epithelial cells, are oval-shaped mechanoreceptors essential for light touch sensation and...
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    are typically seen in settings of immunodeficiency, trauma, surgery, malignancy, skin infections/burns, and septic abortions. Sites prone to infection...
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    oncology (field of surgery treating cancer/malignancy of the head and neck) Head and neck mucosal malignancy (cancer of the pink lining of the upper aerodigestive...
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    mucinous neoplasm. Small neuroendocrine tumors.(<2 cm) without features of malignancy may be treated by appendectomy if complete removal is possible. Other...
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  • neoplasm: A rare hematologic malignancy which is a malignancy of plasmacytoid dendritic cells. Hematological malignancies Myeloblast transient myeloproliferative...
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  • "Leukocytosis Treatment & Management". Medscape. 8 July 2022. Schiffer, Charles. "Hyperleukocytosis and leukostasis in hematologic malignancies". UpToDate....
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  • during female genital mutilation. A clitoridectomy is often done to remove malignancy or necrosis of the clitoris. This is sometimes done along with a radical...
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    might suggest infection, connective tissue or autoimmune disease, or a malignancy of blood cells such as a lymphoma or leukaemia. Rarely, depending on location...
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    pointing upward. Malignancy Sinus is radioopaque. Sometimes, destruction of walls of sinus is seen and is diagnostic of malignancy Distance between antero-lateral...
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  • Category V, and near total thyroidectomy for Category VI. The risk of malignancy in a malignant FNAC report is 93.7% while for a suspicious FNAC report...
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  • of malignancy, about > 2% to ≤ 10% likelihood of malignancy 4B: intermediate suspicion of malignancy, about > 10% to ≤ 50% likelihood of malignancy 4C:...
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  • Progestogen-only pills (POPs), colloquially known as "mini pills", are a type of oral contraceptive that contain synthetic progestogens (progestins) and...
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    AIDS. He is the Chief of the HIV and AIDS Malignancy Branch in the NCI and also coordinates HIV/AIDS malignancy research throughout the NCI as director...
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