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Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia ( CPEO) is a type of eye disorder characterized by slowly progressive inability to move the eyes and eyebrows. [ 1] It is often the only feature of mitochondrial disease, in which case the term CPEO may be given as the diagnosis. In other people suffering from mitochondrial disease, CPEO occurs as ...
Bartholin gland carcinoma is a type of cancer of the vulva arising in the Bartholin gland. [ 2] It typically presents with a painless mass at one side of the vaginal opening in a female of middle-age and older, and can appear similar to a Bartholin cyst. [ 2] The mass may be big or small, may be deep under skin or appear nearer the surface with ...
Frequency. ~2% (children) [ 3] Strabismus is a vision disorder in which the eyes do not properly align with each other when looking at an object. [ 2] The eye that is pointed at an object can alternate. [ 3] The condition may be present occasionally or constantly. [ 3] If present during a large part of childhood, it may result in amblyopia, or ...
Retinoblastoma (Rb) is a rare form of cancer that rapidly develops from the immature cells of a retina, [ 2] the light-detecting tissue of the eye. [ 3] It is the most common primary malignant intraocular cancer in children, especially those under 3 years old. [ 4][ 5] Though most children in high income countries survive this cancer, [ 2] they ...
Moebius syndrome. A child with oromandibular-limb hypogenesis-Möbius syndrome. Notice the expressionless face (due to bilateral VII nerve palsies) and missing fingers. Möbius syndrome or Moebius syndrome is a rare congenital neurological disorder which is characterized by facial paralysis and the inability to move the eyes from side to side.
Signs and symptoms are not mutually exclusive, for example a subjective feeling of fever can be noted as sign by using a thermometer that registers a high reading. [7] Because many symptoms of cancer are gradual in onset and general in nature, cancer screening (also called cancer surveillance) is a key public health priority. This may include ...
Most women going through menopause now grew up in an era when the condition was still considered “rare,” and the signs and symptoms might have been brushed off as simply “cutting weight ...
Parry–Romberg syndrome ( PRS) is a rare disease presenting in early childhood [ 1] characterized by progressive shrinkage and degeneration of the tissues beneath the skin, usually on only one side of the face (hemifacial atrophy) but occasionally extending to other parts of the body. [ 2] An autoimmune mechanism is suspected, and the syndrome ...