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Musculoskeletal Diseases > Fasciitis

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Fasciitis  

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Entry terms

  • Fascitides
  • Fascitis

Note

  • see MeSH definition for major types; eosinophilic fasciitis: coord IM with EOSINOPHILIA (IM); FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING is available

Scope note

  • Inflammation of the fascia. There are three major types: 1, Eosinophilic fasciitis, an inflammatory reaction with eosinophilia, producing hard thickened skin with an orange-peel configuration suggestive of scleroderma and considered by some a variant of scleroderma; 2, Necrotizing fasciitis (FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING), a serious fulminating infection (usually by a beta hemolytic streptococcus) causing extensive necrosis of superficial fascia; 3, Nodular/Pseudosarcomatous /Proliferative fasciitis, characterized by a rapid growth of fibroblasts with mononuclear inflammatory cells and proliferating capillaries in soft tissue, often the forearm; it is not malignant but is sometimes mistaken for fibrosarcoma.

History note

  • 81

In other languages

  • faskiitti

    Finnish

  • fasciitis
  • fascitis
  • kalvotulehdus
  • lihaskalvon tulehdus
  • lihaskalvotulehdus
  • peitinkalvon tulehdus
  • peitinkalvotulehdus
  • Bindvävshinneinflammation

    Swedish

  • Fascit

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005208

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