| bone cysts, aneurysmal | Solitary lesions of bone that typically cause a bulging of the overlying cortex bearing some resemblance to the saccular protrusion of the aortic wall in aortic aneurysm, hence the name. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| aneurysmal bone cyst | <radiology> ABC, 10 - 30 yrs, 75% before skeletal maturity, sites: long bones; also, flat bones Findings: metaphyseal if unfused, metaepiphyseal after fusion, lytic, expansile, thin, continuous rim, thin internal bony strands (12 Dec 1998) |
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| bone cysts | Pathological bone spaces in the metaphyses of long bones of growing children. They are of disputed origin. Cysts may be either empty or filled with fluid and have a delicate connective tissue lining. (12 Dec 1998) |
| aneurysmal | Relating to an aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aneurysmal bruit | A blowing murmur heard over an aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aneurysmal cough | Cough due to impingement of an aortic aneurysm on the recurrent laryngeal nerve or other nearby structures. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aneurysmal murmur | A systolic or systolic-diastolic murmur heard over some cardiac aneurysms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aneurysmal phthisis | The clinical picture of chest pain, cough with or without sputum, and haemoptysis sometimes produced by aortic aneurysm; reminiscent of an advanced tuberculous syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aneurysmal sac | The dilated wall of an artery in a saccular aneurysm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| aneurysmal varix | Dilation and tortuosity of a vein resulting from an acquired communication with an adjacent artery. Synonym: Pott's aneurysm, varix anastomoticus. (05 Mar 2000) |
| arachnoid cysts | Fluid-filled sacs between the layers of the pia mater and arachnoid. These lesions, which often mimic intracranial neoplasms, present clinically at all ages but are probably congenital in origin. (12 Dec 1998) |
| paraphysial cysts | Cyst's arising from vestigial remnants of the paraphysis; they are the possible origin of some third ventricular colloid cyst's. (05 Mar 2000) |
| glomerular cysts | Cyst's formed by dilatation of Bowman's capsules, found in rare cases of congenital polycystic kidneys. (05 Mar 2000) |
| congenital renal cysts | <radiology> Congenital solitary cyst, multilocular cyst, multicystic disease (renal dysplasia), polycystic disease, autosomal-recessive (childhood) form, autosomal-dominant (adult) form, medullary sponge kidney, medulary cystic disease see also: Potter syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| multiple renal cysts | <radiology> Adult (autosomal-dominant) polycystic kidney disease, multiple simple cysts, tuberous sclerosis, von Hippel-Lindau syndrome, Meckel-Gruber syndrome (12 Dec 1998) |
| corpora lutea cysts | Persistent corpora lutea with cyst formation. (05 Mar 2000) |