| ANP | acute necrotizing pancreatitis; adult nurse practitioner; ancillary nursing personnel; A-norprogeste... |
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| ANUG | acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis |
| CNV | choroidal neovascularization; contingent negative variation; cutaneous necrotizing vasculitis |
| HNL | histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenitis |
| INE | infantile necrotizing encephalomyelopathy |
| group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis | A complication of infection with GAS (group A streptococci) in which the bacteria attacks and destroys muscle tissue. According to the CDC, 5-10% of people with severe GAS infection develop necrotizing fasciitis. Though the infection can be treated with antibiotics, the fatality rate is close to 30%. This complication often develops as a wound infection after surgery or injury. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sialometaplasia, necrotizing | A benign, inflammatory, variably ulcerated, occasionally bilateral, self-healing lesion of the minor salivary glands that is often confused clinically and histologically with carcinoma. (12 Dec 1998) |
| necrotizing angiitis | Inflammatory reaction of blood vessels resulting in fibrinoid necrosis of tissue, especially of the blood vessel wall. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing arteriolitis | Necrosis in the media of arterioles, characteristic of malignant hypertension. Synonym: arteriolonecrosis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing cellulitis | Synonym: gangrenous cellulitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing encephalitis | Any encephalitis in which extensive brain necrosis occurs, e.g., acute necrotizing haemorrhagic encephalomyelitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing encephalomyelopathy | Subacute encephalomyelopathy affecting infants, causing dementia, spasticity, and optic atrophy; autosomal recessive inheritance. Synonym: necrotizing encephalomyelopathy, necrotizing encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing encephalopathy | Subacute encephalomyelopathy affecting infants, causing dementia, spasticity, and optic atrophy; autosomal recessive inheritance. Synonym: necrotizing encephalomyelopathy, necrotizing encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing fasciitis | A rare soft-tissue infection primarily involving the superficial fascia and resulting in extensive undermining of surrounding tissues; progress is often fulminant and may involve all soft-tissue components, including the skin; usually occurs postoperatively, after minor trauma, or after inadequate care of abscesses or cutaneous ulcers. See: group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing papillitis | <nephrology> Necrosis of renal papillae, occurring in acute pyelonephritis, especially in diabetics, or in analgesic nephropathy; renal failure may result. Synonym: necrotizing papillitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing scleritis | Fibrinoid degeneration and necrosis of the sclera. (05 Mar 2000) |
| necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis | An acute or recurrent gingivitis of young and middle-aged adults characterised clinically by gingival erythema and pain, fetid odour, and necrosis and sloughing of interdental papillae and marginal gingiva which gives rise to a gray pseudomembrane; fever, regional lymphadenopathy, and other systemic manifestations also may be present. A fusiform bacillus and Treponema vincentii can be isolated from the gingival tissues in large numbers and are felt to play a significant but poorly defined role in the pathogenesis. Synonym: fusospirochetal gingivitis, trench mouth, ulceromembranous gingivitis, Vincent's disease, Vincent's infection. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subacute necrotizing encephalomyelopathy | A rare fatal disorder, primarily of children, being both acute and chronic in onset, manifested primarily as brainstem dysfunction, with ataxia, cranial nerve palsies, pseudobulbar palsy, hemi-or quadriplegia, mental deterioration, and involuntary movements; deficiencies of pyruvate dehydrogenase or cytochrome C oxydase have been found in some patients; pathologically, there is widespread symmetric necrosis involving much of the brainstem; these changes are similar to those seen with Wernicke encephalopathy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| subacute necrotizing myelitis | A disorder of the lower spinal cord in adult males resulting in progressive paraplegia. Synonym: angiodysgenetic myelomalacia, Foix-Alajouanine myelitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| disseminated necrotizing leukoencephalopathy | <radiology> DNL: demyelination due to radiation and chemotherapy, decreased density in deep white matter, with or without peripheral, patchy enhancement, calcification: basal ganglia, grey/white junction (12 Dec 1998) |