Pathological processes

Articles

• necrosis
  9 November 2004

  tissular death

• cell injury
  28 January 2006

  cellular injury

• suppuration
  17 October 2005

  suppurative inflammation, purulent inflammation

• metastasis
  29 October 2003

  cancer metastasis, tumoral metastasis, metastases
  Definition: Metastasis can be viewed as an evolutionary process, culminating in the prevalence of rare tumour cells that overcame stringent physiological barriers as they separated from their original environment and developmental fate.
  Types
  lymphatic dissemination
  nodal metastasis
  carcinomatous lymphangitis
  Localization
  visceral metastasis
  pulmonary metastasis
  hepatic metastasis
  digestive metastasis
  cerebral metastasis (...)

• Fibrosis
  25 May 2004

  Localization
  hepatic fibrosis
  pulmonary fibrosis
  retroperitoneal firbrosis
  nodal fibrosis
  References
  Wynn T. Cellular and molecular mechanisms of fibrosis. J Pathol. 2008 Jan;214(2):199-210. PMID: #18161745#
  Ingelfinger JR. Forestalling fibrosis. N Engl J Med. 2003 Dec 4;349(23):2265-6. PMID: #14657436#

• thyroid tumorigenesis
  19 May 2004

  Genic inactivations
  CTNNB1 exon 3 mutations in poorly differentiated (25%) and undifferentiated thyroid carcinomas (21.4%) (#11238046#)
  See also:
  thyroid tumors

• ovarian tumorigenesis
  8 September 2004

  References
  Shih IeM, Kurman RJ. Ovarian tumorigenesis: a proposed model based on morphological and molecular genetic analysis. Am J Pathol. 2004 May;164(5):1511-8. PMID: #15111296#

• prostatic tumorigenesis
  5 July 2007

  prostate carcinogenesis

• genic inactivation
  21 September 2004

  gene inactivation

• tissular injury
  19 April 2004

  tissue injury

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