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The extra fluid that builds up in the body makes it hard for the blood to feed cells and get rid of waste products. The tissue becomes poorly nourished and fragile, resulting in stasis dermatitis. The disorder is common on the ankles because there...
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Detailed information on preventing unintentional injuries
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Statistics relating to unintentional injuries
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Scrapes and sprains are a fact of life for most children, so it’s good to know what to do when they come home with a minor injury.
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Trampolines are popular. Thousands of children are rocketing skyward, and trampoline injuries are also on the rise.
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Children in households where a parent lives with another unrelated adult are at much greater risk of death from an injury suffered in the home.
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Detailed information on neurological trauma in children
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Psychiatric diagnosis may be neglected in emergency rooms, where, in addition, people of color are less likely to be diagnosed with a pyschiatric condition than whites.
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Lymphedema is the swelling of tissues ( edema ), usually the feet and legs, due to lymphatic obstruction. Lymphatic fluid seeps out of the blood circulation into the tissues.
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Preventing Lymphedema After Breast SurgeryCall the Doctor If Your Arm Is:Swollen or redHotPainfulAfter breast surgery, fluid may collect and cause swelling in the arm on the side of your surgery. This is calledlymphedema.It occurs when lymph nodes...
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Expert-reviewed information summary about the treatment of lymphedema.
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A tumor is a growth of tissue that forms an abnormal mass. Tumors generally provide no useful function and grow at the expense of healthy tissues.
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Mass of abnormally growing cells. Tumor is the term applied to any collection of abnormally growing cells.
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Vasculitis refers to a varied group of disorders which all share a common underlying problem of inflammation of a blood vessel or blood vessels. The inflammation may affect any size blood vessel, anywhere in the body.
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Detailed information on the most common types of vasculitis, including Kawasaki Disease and Henoch-Schönlein Purpura
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Vasculitides is the plural of the word vasculitis, which may be used to describe any disorder characterized by inflammation of the blood or lymph vessels. Vasculitis is not a distinctive disease in its own right, but rather a symptom or characteristic of a number of different diseases.
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Vasculitis refers to a condition that causes inflammation of blood vessels (arteries, capillaries, and/or veins). When the blood vessels become inflamed, scarring, thickening of the vessel walls, and narrowing of the vessel caliber decrease the amount of blood flow through the blood vessels.
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