sclerosing cholangitis

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• Sclerosing cholangitis — A chronic disorder of the liver in which the ducts carrying bile from the liver to the intestine and, often, the ducts carrying bile within the liver, become inflamed, thickened and scared (sclerotic), and obstructed. This relentlessly… …   Medical dictionary

• Primary sclerosing cholangitis — Classification and external resources Cholangiogram of primary sclerosing cholangitis. ICD 10 K …   Wikipedia

• PSC (primary sclerosing cholangitis) — 1. A chronic disorder of the liver in which the ducts carrying bile from the liver to the intestine and, often, the ducts carrying bile within the liver, become inflamed, thickened (sclerotic), and obstructed. This relentlessly progressive… …   Medical dictionary

• Neonatal ichthyosis–sclerosing cholangitis syndrome — Classification and external resources OMIM 607626 Neonatal ichthyosis–sclerosing cholangitis syndrome (also known as NISCH syndrome [1] and Ichthyosis–sclerosing cholangitis syndrome …   Wikipedia

• Primary sclerosing cholangitis — 1. A chronic disorder of the liver in which the ducts carrying bile from the liver to the intestine, and often the ducts carrying bile within the liver, become inflamed, thickened, scarred (sclerotic), and obstructed. This relentlessly… …   Medical dictionary

• Cholangitis (disambiguation) — Cholangitis is any inflammation of the biliary tree, including: Ascending cholangitis, a severe acute bacterial infection associated with gallstones in the common bile duct Primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic autoimmune disease leading to… …   Wikipedia

• Cholangitis — Infobox Disease Name = Cholangitis Caption = DiseasesDB = 2514 ICD10 = ICD10|K|83|0|k|80 ICD9 = ICD9|576.1 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = med eMedicineTopic = 2665 eMedicine mult = eMedicine2|emerg|96 | MeshID = D002761 Cholangitis… …   Wikipedia

• Cholangitis, sclerosing — A chronic disorder of the liver in which the ducts carrying bile from the liver to the intestine and, often, the ducts carrying bile within the liver, become inflamed, thickened and scared (sclerotic), and obstructed. This relentlessly… …   Medical dictionary

• Cholangitis — Klassifikation nach ICD 10 K83.0 Cholangitis K80.3 K80.4 Cholangitis mit Choledocholithiasis K74.3 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• cholangitis — Inflammation of a bile duct or the entire biliary tree. SYN: angiocholitis, cholangeitis. [chol + G. angeion, vessel, + itis, inflammation] ascending c. SYN: c. lenta. c. lenta (len ta′) low grade …   Medical dictionary