| NSHD | nodular sclerosing Hodgkin disease |
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| PSC | patient services coordination; Porter-Silber chromogen; posterior subcapsular cataract; primary scle... |
| SC | conditioned stimulus; sacrococcygeal; Sanitary Corps; scalenus [muscle]; scapula; Schwann cell; scia... |
| SL | sarcolemma; sclerosing leukoencephalopathy; secondary leukemia; segment length; sensation level; sen... |
| SSP | Sanarelli-Shwartzman phenomenon; subacute sclerosing panencephalitis; slice sensitivity profile; sub... |
| subacute sclerosing leukoencephalitis | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
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| subacute sclerosing panencephalitis | <neurology> Chronic progressive illness seen in children a few years after measles infection and involving demyelination of the cerebral cortex. Virus apparently persists in brain cells: usually considered a slow virus disease. (18 Nov 1997) |
| focal sclerosing glomerulopathy | Focal, segmental glomerulosclerosis reported in adults and children with normal serum complement, progressing to chronic glomerulonephritis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| admixture lesion | <radiology> Cyanosis and increased pulmonary blood flow, transposition (TGV), truncus arteriosis, TAPVR, tricuspid atresia (sort of intracardiac TAPVR) (12 Dec 1998) |
| andersson lesion | <radiology> Discovertebral fracture, seen in ankylosing spondylitis (12 Dec 1998) |
| Baehr-Lohlein lesion | Focal embolic glomerulonephritis occurring in bacterial endocarditis. Synonym: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| benign lymphoepithelial lesion | Benign tumour-like masses of lymphoid tissue in the parotid gland, containing scattered small, mainly solid islands of epithelial cells. Synonym: Godwin tumour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bracht-Wachter lesion | A focal collection of lymphocytes and mononuclear cells within the myocardium in bacterial endocarditis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bright t1 lesion | <radiology> (short T1), fat (lipoma, dermoid), sub-acute haemorrhage (metHb), paramagnetic agent (Gd, ? posterior pituitary), proteinaceous fluid (colloid cyst) most abnormalities cause long T1 and T2 (dark/bright) see also: dark T2 lesion (12 Dec 1998) |
| bubbly bone lesion | <radiology> Fibrous dysplasia, enchondroma, giant cell tumour (GCT), non-ossifying fibroma, osteoblastoma, myeloma, aneurysmal bone cyst (ABC), angioma, simple (solitary, unicameral) bone cyst, hyperparathyroid cyst, infection (Brodie's abscess; coccidioidomycosis; echinococcus), chondromyxoid fibroma, chondroblastoma mnemonic: FEGNOMASHIC (!!) (12 Dec 1998) |
| Mallory-Weiss lesion | Laceration of the gastric cardia, as seen in the Mallory-Weiss syndrome. Synonym: Mallory-Weiss tear. (05 Mar 2000) |
| gelatinous lesion | A small area of oedema in the arterial intima, possibly a precursor of a fibrous plaque. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Ghon's primary lesion | Calcification seen in pulmonary parenchyma (usually mid-lung area) and hilar nodes resulting from earlier, usually childhood, infection with tuberculosis. Synonym: Ghon's complex, Ghon's focus, Ghon's primary lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| GI-tract target lesion | <radiology> Metastatic melanoma, primary neoplasm, spindle cell tumour (benign or malignant), lymphoma, carcinoid, carcinoma, metastasis, breast carcinoma, lung carcinoma, renal carcinoma, Kaposi's sarcoma, eosinophilic granuloma, ectopic pancreas (12 Dec 1998) |
| caviar lesion | A dilated vein or varicule existing in the venous collecting system under the tongue. (05 Mar 2000) |