| Kashin-Beck disease |
An endemic arthritis found in parts of China and Russia. Caused by eating bread made from a fungus-infected grain.
Ãâó: www.ilar.org/Glossary/Glossary_k.htm
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| Kasai procedure |
a surgical method performed to reestablish bile flow from the liver to the intestine in infants diagnosed with biliary atresia.
Ãâó: www.theliverfoundationforkids.org/glossary.html
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| Kasabach-Merritt s. |
a blood disorder usually occurring in the first few months of life in which severe thrombocytopenia and other evidence of intravascular coagulation are accompanied by rapidly expanding hemangiomas of the trunk, extremities, and abdominal viscera, sometimes associated with bleeding and anemia. Bleeding is thought to be due to trapping and destruction of platelets within the tumor and depletion of circulating clotting factors. Called also hemangioma-thrombocytopenia s.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| Kasabach-Merritt syndrome |
see under syndrome.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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| Kasai o. |
portoenterostomy.
Ãâó: www.mercksource.com/pp/us/cns/cns_health_library.j...
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