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Macroamylasemia Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment

Macroamylasemia is a disease defined by an elevation in serum amylase activity due to the presence of complex macromolecules whose huge size inhibits their elimination via the urinary system.It is not possible to correlate it in any reliable way with any specific illness condition, and therefore, it ought to be treated as a harmless chemical...

Desmoplastic Trichoepithelioma Symptoms, Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment

Trichoepithelioma is a benign, cutaneous neoplasm that develops from the hair follicle. It is divided into three types: singular trichoepithelioma, multiple trichoepithelioma, and desmoplastic trichoepithelioma, which is thought to be an unusual cutaneous adnexal tumor.Hartzell first reported desmoplastic trichoepithelioma in 1904, labeling it a benign cystic epithelioma. Desmoplastic trichoepithelioma is also known as adenoides cysticum...

Zoon’s Balanitis Symptoms, Causes, Cancer, Treatment

Balanitis is soreness and inflammation of the penis glans (head) in uncircumcised males. In circumcision, the foreskin is removed from the head of the penis to protect it from certain kinds of infection. Balanitis is usually caused by yeast, however, it can also be bacterial or viral. It is not infectious.ZB (Zoon Balanitis) is characterized...

Cerebellopontine Angle Meningioma Symptoms, Causes, Prognosis, Treatment

A meningioma is characterized as a tumor, originating from the membranes known as meninges that cover the spinal cord and the brain. Most meningiomas grow slowly, and frequently without generating symptoms for years. However, their impact on surrounding brain tissue, nerves, or arteries can result in significant damage. Meningiomas are mostly found in women than...

Riedel’s Thyroiditis Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | Riedel’s Thyroiditis vs Hashimoto’s

Riedel thyroiditis is typically characterized by a firm, fixed, and typically asymptomatic enlargement of the thyroid. It is a very unusual kind of thyroiditis that causes the parenchymal tissue to gradually change into connective tissue. This is a solid, visible goiter that can lead to discomfort, compressive symptoms, and damage to nearby tissues such as...

Iliolumbar Syndrome Symptoms, Causes, Test, Treatment

The Iliolumbar ligament is characterized as one of the three vertebropelvic ligaments and a thick band of connective tissue. The other two ligaments are called the sacrospinous and the sacrotuberous ligaments. All these ligaments aid in the stabilization of the lumbosacral spine.Iliolumbar ligaments connect the fourth and fifth lumbar vertebrae, also known as L4 and...

Dolichoectasia Symptoms, Causes, Treatment | Dolichoectasia vs Aneurysm

Dolichoectasia means stretched out and bigger. It is used to identify arteries with severe tunica intima (and possibly tunica media) degeneration, which affects the vessel and causes the artery to dilate and distend. It is a disorder in which the vertebral and basilar arteries elongate, dilate, and become tortuous. Although this condition is infrequent and...

Ber-EP4-positive Lung, Skin and Ovarian Cancer

Ber-EP4 is a technique that is used to distinguish between different kinds of cancer. It is found in all epithelial cells both on the surface and in the cytoplasm but not on the hepatocytes, parietal cells, and superficial layers of squamous epithelial cells. It reacts with simple epithelia, epidermis, and stratified non-keratinized squamous epithelium. However,...

AIN Grade 1, 2, 3 Symptoms, Causes, Treatment

Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (AIN) is a precancerous skin change in the perineal region caused by HPV (human papillomavirus) exposure. Anal intraepithelial neoplasia (AIN) refers to the premalignant dysplasia of the anal epithelium, which is caused by infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV). It takes the form of anal cancer over time, necessitating chemo-radiation and maybe...

Loose Anagen Syndrome Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, Home Remedies

Loose Anagen Syndrome, also known as Loose Hair Syndrome, is a condition in which hair strands are not securely connected to the scalp and can thus be gently plucked from the head. Due to an insufficient amount of tissue generation in the internal layers of the hair follicles and hair shafts, the strands emerging from...