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Rokitansky, Karl, baron von(encyclopedia)
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Rokitansky's disease (medicine)


Rokitansky's disease -->
acute yellow atrophy of the liver


A lesion in which there is extensive and rapid death of parenchymal cells of the liver, sometimes with fatty degeneration of the size of the organ; the necrosis may result from fulminant viral infection or chemical poisoning; associated with jaundice.

Synonym: acute parenchymatous hepatitis, Rokitansky's disease.