necrosis


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Synonyms for necrosis

the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)

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Of the patients, 4 (20%) had infected necrosis (extraintestinal air on CECT of the abdomen, n=3/positive image-guided fine needle aspiration cytology, n=1).
Improvement rates for dysmenorrhea for the two groups were 94.7% (complete necrosis) and 50.0% (incomplete necrosis) at 12-month follow-up (P < 0.001).
Delay in diagnosis and treatment can cause sepsis and death due to progressive necrosis of intestinal ischemia.
Endoscopic drainage of walled-off pancreatic necrosis has been performed in our center since 2001 [7,15].
In the 1990s, researchers observed that caspase inhibition cannot fully block tumor necrosis factor--(TNF-) induced cell death but rather switches the cell fate to the necrotic death signal pathway similar to apoptosis [9, 10].
Uterine necrosis after UAE poses a clinical dilemma for any clinician in its identification and management [10, 11].
The lesion must be distinguished histologically from other tumors and "pseudotumors" such as lipoma, angiolipoma, angioleiomyoma, angiomyoma, liposarcoma, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency-associated panniculitis, membranocystic, and pancreatic fat necrosis (6, 8, 21).
The effects of 50 ul /cm2 produced supernatant of 7 days cultured fungal biomass that was purified by filtration were assayed, on the goal plant in laboratory and research greenhouse, three-fold and according to numbering method, the most necrotic was related to IRLM.LC34 strain, because destructive effects were appeared as necrosis on leaf, stem and finally lead to the death.
Elevated C-reactive protein levels were not correlated with necrosis and the clinical severity score (p>0.05).
Acute retinal necrosis (ARN) is a rapidly progressive disease with poor prognosis, leading to visual loss in most cases.