See Also: Wegener granulomatosis(medicine)
Wegener's granulomatosis(health)
wegener's granulomatosis(medicine)
Wegener's granulomatosis(dictionary)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
Wegener's theory(dictionary)
Wegener, Friedrich(medicine)
Wegener, Alfred (Lothar)(encyclopedia)
Villous(medicine)
villous(dictionary)

villous tumour (medicine) and Wegener granulomatosis (medicine)


villous tumour (medicine)


villous tumour -->
villous papilloma
<tumour> A papilloma composed of slender, finger-like excrescences occurring in the bladder or large intestine, or from the choroid plexus of the cerebral ventricles; villous papilloma's of the colon are usually sessile and frequently become malignant.

Synonym: villous tumour.


Wegener granulomatosis (medicine)


wegener granulomatosis
<radiology> Sinuses, mucoperiosteal thickening, may destroy bone and cartilage, lungs, necrotizing granulomata, multiple round nodules (2 mm - 9 cm), may cavitate, kidneys, glomerulonephritis most likely to be necrosis of capillary tuft, generalised necrotizing vasculitis of arteries and veins, auto-immune: basement membrane, almost always involves lungs, M = F, 30-50 years of age, symptoms: cough, haemoptysis, fever, wt loss, multiple respecially infections, treatment: cytotoxins, immunosuppression