Disease

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• Whipple disease
  20 January 2008

  Images
  https://twitter.com/ARP_Press/status/734864146525786115
  https://twitter.com/ARP_Press/status/734864702229086208
  https://twitter.com/ARP_Press/status/734864354378698752
  Whipple’s Disease by Ed Euthman
  Definition: Whipple’s disease (WD) is a chronic systemic inflammatory disease of infectious origin caused by Tropheryma whipplei (TW).
  Abdominal pain and recurrent diarrhea are usually the main symptoms leading to the suspicion of a primary bowel disease. Systemic manifestations (...)

• acute appendicitis
  2 September 2004

  Digital cases
  HPC:25 : acute appendicitis
  HPC:94 : acute appendicitis
  HPC:368 : Granulation tissue after acute appendicitis
  Videos
  Acute appendicitis (by Washington Deceit)
  Peri-appendiceal abscess (by Washington Deceit)
  Laparoscopic appendicectomy
  See also
  appendicectomy (videos)
  References
  Lamps LW. Appendicitis and infections of the appendix. Semin Diagn Pathol. 2004 May;21(2):86-97. PMID: #15807469#
  References
  Minimal added value of further blocks in negative (...)

• Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome
  25 November 2003

  SLOS, SLO syndrome, RSH syndrome, Rutledge lethal multiple congenital anomaly syndrome, polydactyly-sex reversal-renal hypoplasia syndrome, letahl acrodysgenital syndrome

• Parkinson disease
  29 September 2003

  Parkinson’s disease, pakinsonism

• Wilson disease
  30 May 2003

  Wilson’s disease

• Meckel syndrome
  18 March 2004

  Meckel-Gruber syndrome, dysencephalia splanchnocystica

• Hirschsprung disease
  6 October 2003

  Hirschsprung’s disease, congenital intestinal aganglionosis, digestive aganglionnosis; digestive aganglionoses PO1 PO2
  Definition: Aganglionic megacolon is associated with congenital absence of intrinsic ganglion cells in the myenteric (Auerbach) and submucosal (Meissner) plexuses of the gastrointestinal tract. The disorder is genetically heterogeneous.
  Digital cases
  HPC:90 : rectal mucosa biopsies
  HPC:98 : rectal mucosa biopsies
  HPC:151 : Hirschsprung disease - Rectal (...)

• Cowden disease
  2 November 2004

  multiple hamartoma syndrome, Cowden syndrome; PTEN hamartoma tumor syndrome (PHTS).
  Definition: Cowden syndrome is a rare autosomal dominant condition named after the Cowden family in which it was initially documented.
  Images
  Digestive hamartomas with neural and fatty elements, lymphoid aggs
  https://twitter.com/CArnold_GI/status/830854075944144898
  Manifestations of the syndrome include gastrointestinal, oral and cutaneous hamartomas, tumors of breast and thyroid, autoimmune (...)

• thrombotic microangiopathy
  15 April 2005

  thrombotic microangiopathies, Moschkowitz syndrome, TMA

• Crohn disease
  30 December 2003

  Crohn’s disease

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