Archives mensuelles: April 2015
Corneal Arcus
The corneal arcus is the most common extravascular cholesterol deposit and more commonplace. This is a deposition of cholesterol forming a circle or an...
Red ear
The formation of a red ear can be a reason for consultation very ordinary or instead be a key diagnostic feature in some systemic...
Oblique fold of the ear
The statues of the Emperor Hadrian, heart failure death (dropsy as old manuscripts), represent the ear lobe crossed by an oblique notch, and it...
Hyperleukocytosis
The leukocytosis is defi ned by a number of white blood cells than 10,000 / mm3. Such a value but draws attention:
- Moderate leukocytosis...
Thrombocytosis
Thrombocytosis is defined as a platelet count greater than 600,000 / mm3. We distinguish secondary thrombocytosis (iron deficiency, inflammation or hyposplenism) of "primitive" thrombocytosis...
Chronic renal failure
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is defined as a chronic decrease in glomerular filtration rate. In France, about 2 million people have CKD. Risk subjects...
Prostate cancer screening
WHY?
According to 2000 statistics, prostate cancer is the most common male cancer (40,000 cases per year), and the second leading cause of cancer death...
Mouth ulcers
Warning:
• Before an atypical ulcer, do not overlook an ulcerated neoplasia or other inflammatory disease.
• If recurrent canker sore, do not ignore a systemic...
Medical Abbreviations
A
AAA Abdominal aortic aneurysm
AAD American Academy of Dermatology
Anti-arthritic Aasal symptomatic slow-acting
AASLD Amercian Association for the Study of Liver Diseases: www.aasld.org
Ac. Acid
Ac Antibodies
ACC American College...
Pituitary MRI
MRI is currently the gold standard for morphological study of the hypothalamic-pituitary region, having supplanted the pituitary scanner and X-ray of the sella.
I. INDICATIONS...
