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Preferred term

Typhlitis  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Necrotizing inflammation of the CECUM ("typhlon" in Greek), sometimes spreading to the APPENDIX and/or the ILEUM. Symptoms include ABDOMINAL PAIN and DIARRHEA. Its pathogenesis is multifactorial. Typhlitis is often associated with NEUTROPENIA and chemotherapy in immunocompromised individuals (IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST). An acute necrotizing inflammation of the CECUM occurring in neutropenic patients.

Synonym(s)

  • Cecitis

In other languages

  • French

  • Caecite
  • Inflammation du caecum

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-X5WXFG4J-V

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