Pathological Entities Were Mixed Together

I thought we were in this together?

On Carcinomas and Other Pathological Entities

Tumours, abscesses, cysts, scars and fractures are familiar types of what we shall call pathological continuant entities. The instances of such types exist always in or on anatomical structures, which thereby become transformed into pathological anatomical structures of corresponding types: a fractured tibia, a blistered thumb, a carcinomatous colon. In previous work on biomedical ontologies we...

Pediatric and adult dilated cardiomyopathy represent distinct pathological entities.

Pediatric dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the most common indication for heart transplantation in children. Despite similar genetic etiologies, medications routinely used in adult heart failure patients do not improve outcomes in the pediatric population. The mechanistic basis for these observations is unknown. We hypothesized that pediatric and adult DCM comprise distinct pathological entities...

Diabetes and hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: related or separate entities often found together.

The Finnish diabetologist, Yki-Järvinen, stated it most provocatively in a 1999 lecture: “Diabetes is a cardiovascular disease which you diagnose by measuring blood glucose.” The relation between diabetes mellitus and ischemic heart disease is tight, and patients with diabetes mellitus carry the same risk of cardiovascular death as patients with a previous myocardial infarction and no diabetes ...

prevalence of pathological entities in neck masses: a study of 1208 consecutive cases

conclusions the age and location of neck masses are the most important variables. the data in this study showed that the neoplastic lesions (including metastatic lesions) were the most common neck masses and the anterior triangle was the most common anatomical location. in addition, age can play an important role in differential diagnosis. therefore, any mass in the neck, especially in older pa...