Lymphedema = الوذمة اللمفاوية LYMPHEDEMA Lymphedema is a consequence of prolonged edema; edema is an interference of the physiologic movement of fluid from capillaries through the interstitial spaces and back into lymphatics. In edema, the equilibrium is shifted and more fluid remains in the interstitial space—when this becomes chronic, inflammatory cells and their […]
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Lymphogranuloma venereum= الورم الحبيبي اللمفاوي الزهري Lymphogranuloma Venereum EPIDEMIOLOGY Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) is a rare sexually transmitted disease due to specific Chlamydia variants. It is endemic in East and West Africa, India, Southeast Asia, South and Central America, and some Caribbean islands; and accounts for 2 percent to 10 percent of genital […]
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Lymphomatoid papulosis = الداء الحطاطي اللمفواني Lymphomatoid PapulosisLymphomatoid papulosis (LyP) is a chronic papulonecrotic or papulonodular skin disease with histologic features suggestive of a malignant lymphoma. The disease is characterized by recurrent crops of pruritic papules at different stages of development that predominantly arise on the trunk and limbs. The papules heal spontaneously over 1-2 […]
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Kaposi sarcoma =غرن كابوزي Kaposi Sarcoma In 1872, the Austro-Hungarian dermatologist Moriz Kaposi described five patients with multicentric cutaneous and extra-cutaneous neoplasm that primarily affected older individuals.1 This disease, originally described as idiopathic multiple pigment sarcoma, was later eponymously designated Kaposi sarcoma (KS). Since then, different variants of this tumor have been described, which have […]
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Kasabach_Merritt Syndrome = متلازمة كاسباخ ميرريت
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