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  2. Aschoff body - Wikipedia

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    Cardiac Histiocytes / Anitschkow are present in small numbers in the heart but their numbers are increased in Aschoff nodules. therefore they are not characteristic of rheumatic heart disease. Stage 3. Late fibrosis stage. It is the stage of healing by which the fibrosis of the Aschoff nodules occur in 12 to 16 weeks after the illness.

  3. Osler's node - Wikipedia

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    Osler's nodes result from the deposition of immune complexes. [2] The resulting inflammatory response leads to swelling, redness, and pain that characterize these lesions. ...

  4. Mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue - Wikipedia

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    The mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT), also called mucosa-associated lymphatic tissue, is a diffuse system of small concentrations of lymphoid tissue found in various submucosal membrane sites of the body, such as the gastrointestinal tract, nasopharynx, thyroid, breast, lung, salivary glands, eye, and skin.

  5. Ground-glass opacity - Wikipedia

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    A halo sign refers to a GGO that fills the area around a consolidation or nodule. This is a most commonly seen in various types of pulmonary infections, including CMV pneumonia, tuberculosis, nocardia infection, some fungal pneumonias, and septic emboli. Schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection, also commonly presents with the halo sign ...

  6. Rheumatoid nodule - Wikipedia

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    Rarely, the nodules occur at diverse sites on body (e.g., upper eyelid, distal region of the soles of the feet, vulva, and internally in the gallbladder, lung, heart valves, larynx, and spine). [ 3 ] Rheumatoid nodules can vary in size from 2 mm to 5 cm and are usually rather firm to the touch.

  7. Sinoatrial node - Wikipedia

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    For example, in most humans, this is a single artery, although in some cases there have been either 2 or 3 sinoatrial node arteries supplying the SA node. Also, the SA node artery mainly originates as a branch of the right coronary artery ; however in some individuals it has arisen from the circumflex artery , which is a branch of the left ...

  8. Mediastinal tumors - Wikipedia

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    It contains the heart, esophagus, trachea, thymus, and aorta. The most common mediastinal masses are thymoma (20% of mediastinal tumors), usually found in the anterior mediastinum, followed by neurogenic Timor (15–20%) located in the anterior mediastinum. [1] Lung cancer typically spreads to the lymph nodes in the mediastinum.

  9. Ventricular septal defect - Wikipedia

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    Congenital heart disease, particularly VSDs, is the number one cause of death for children with Down syndrome ages birth to two. [ 7 ] A VSD can also form a few days after a myocardial infarction [ 8 ] (heart attack) due to mechanical tearing of the septal wall, before scar tissue forms, when macrophages start remodeling the dead heart tissue.