• Darier's disease (DD) is a rare, genetic skin disorder. It is an autosomal dominant disorder, that is, if one parent has DD, there is a 50% chance than...
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    Hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) is a common infection caused by a group of enteroviruses. It typically begins with a fever and feeling generally...
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    associated with other autoimmune diseases, namely systemic lupus erythematosus, Behçet's disease and inflammatory bowel diseases. However, common autoantibodies...
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    Crohn's disease is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that may affect any segment of the gastrointestinal tract. Symptoms often include abdominal...
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    added to the World Health Organization's list of neglected tropical diseases. This disease is strongly linked to poverty and malnutrition, and predominantly...
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    Histoplasma capsulatum. Symptoms of this infection vary greatly, but the disease affects primarily the lungs. Occasionally, other organs are affected; called...
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    Sjögren's disease (SjD) (previously known as Sjögren syndrome or Sjögren's syndrome (SjS, SS)) is a long-term autoimmune disease that primarily affects...
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    Behçet's disease (BD) is a type of inflammatory disorder which affects multiple parts of the body. The most common symptoms include painful sores on the...
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    Periodontal disease, also known as gum disease, is a set of inflammatory conditions affecting the tissues surrounding the teeth. In its early stage, called...
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    filled with a watery fluid. DH is a cutaneous manifestation of coeliac disease, although the exact causal mechanism is not known. DH is neither related...
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    thyroid disease. It has also been associated with autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Lyme disease and Addison's...
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    Ichthyosis (category Rare diseases)
    Koppelhus, Uffe (November 2021). "Validity of First-Time Diagnoses of Darier's Disease in the Danish National Patient Registry". Clinical Epidemiology. 13:...
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    seen after rubbing the lesional skin. Darier's sign is named after the French dermatologist Ferdinand-Jean Darier (1856–1938) who first described it. Dermatographic...
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    Tongue diseases can be congenital or acquired, and are multiple in number. Considered according to a surgical sieve, some example conditions which can...
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    Salivary gland diseases (SGDs) are multiple and varied in cause. There are three paired major salivary glands in humans: the parotid glands, the submandibular...
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    Darier studied with Louis-Antoine Ranvier (1835–1922) at the Collège de France. Darier discovered several diseases, most notably Darier's disease, a...
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    Skin condition (redirect from Skin Disease)
    Conditions of the human integumentary system constitute a broad spectrum of diseases, also known as dermatoses, as well as many nonpathologic states (like,...
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    sclerosis complex (TSC) is a rare multisystem autosomal dominant genetic disease that causes non-cancerous tumours to grow in the brain and on other vital...
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    ; Campbell, J. (October 2005). "Fungiform papillary glossitis: atopic disease in the mouth?". British Journal of Dermatology. 153 (100, 000, 000, 000):...
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    Molluscum contagiosum (category Sexually transmitted diseases and infections)
    (YLDs) for 1160 sequelae of 289 diseases and injuries 1990-2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010". Lancet. 380 (9859):...
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    of the skin, the pre-invasive or in situ form of cSCC is termed Bowen's disease. The most significant risk factor for cSCC is extensive lifetime exposure...
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  • brachytelephalangy Dandy–Walker syndrome Daneman–Davy–Mancer syndrome Darier's disease Davenport–Donlan syndrome DAVID syndrome Davis–Lafer syndrome De Barsy...
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    and mouth disease. Both group A and group B coxsackieviruses can cause nonspecific febrile illnesses, rashes, upper respiratory tract disease, and aseptic...
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    rash develops and does not usually last through the entire course of the disease. About a fifth of cases have an atypical form, with significant variations...
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    fever, or "second disease", is associated with the bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes. Fourth disease, also known as "Dukes' disease" is a condition whose...
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    management of erythema multiforme and Stevens-Johnson syndrome". Archives of Disease in Childhood. 83 (4): 347–352. doi:10.1136/adc.83.4.347. PMC 1718505. PMID 10999875...
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    condition. The incidence of melasma also increases in patients with thyroid disease. It is thought that the overproduction of melanocyte-stimulating hormone...
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    Lupus (redirect from Lupus disease)
    technically known as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissue in...
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    Gingivitis is a non-destructive disease that causes inflammation of the gums; ulitis is an alternative term. The most common form of gingivitis, and the...
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  • scraped off, named after Heinrich Auspitz. It may also be seen in Darier's disease and actinic keratosis. Importantly, as with many eponymous clinical...
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