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P.E.T.

Positron emission tomography is a nuclear medicine imaging technique which produces three-dimensional image or picture of functional processes in the body emitted indirectly by a positron emitting radionuclide.

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Haddad syndrome

Haddad syndrome also called as Hirschprung?s disease is a congenital disorder of colon causing chronic constipation. Haddad syndrome which causes enlargement of the colon, caused by bowel obstruction resulting from an aganglionic section of bowel that starts at the anus and progresses upwards.

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Accutane Embryopathy

Also called as Fetal Retinoid Syndrome. Accutane Embryopathy is a characteristic pattern of mental and physical birth defects that results from maternal use of retinoids, the synthetic vitamin A derivative during pregnancy. The most well known retinoid is Isotretinoin (Accutane), a drug used to treat severe nodular acne.

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Uncircumcised Penis Care and Cleaning

Penis consists of two main parts, the shaft and the head. Head of the penis is also called as glans of the penis or the glans penis. Urine and semen are excreted from the body through a small opening at the tip of the glans. In the newborn the shaft and the glans of the penis are covered by a single continuous layer of skin.

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Immune Hemolytic Anemia

Immune hemolytic anemia or autoimmune hemolytic anemia or AIHA is a type of hemolytic anemia in which body's red blood cells or RBC's are destroyed by the body's own immune system.

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Quincke Syndrome

Quincke's edema or familial angioneurotic edema is an rare variant of urticaria, associated or not, that involves the subcutaneous cell tissue and mucous of the upper air digestive tract and face.

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Pars Planitis

A condition which is characterized by inflammation of the peripheral retina of the eye. Pars planitis is a benign condition; there can be significant vision loss in extreme cases.

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Emergency First Aid for Heatstroke

Heat stroke is an abnormally elevated body temperature with physical and neurological symptoms, heat stroke is a medical emergency that can be dangerous if not attended and treated properly and promptly.

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Idiopathic Neonatal Hepatitis

Idiopathic Neonatal Hepatitis is rare life-threatening condition where for unknown reason iron accumulates in the liver of the fetus and produces severe symptoms after birth, during the fetal or infant stage death is common.

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Hidrosadenitis Suppurativa

Hidrosadenitis Suppurativa is a chronic skin condition characterized by swollen, painful, inflamed lesions in the axillae, groin, buttocks and other parts of the body that contain apocrine glands. It is more commonly found in women and can be present under the breasts.

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