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peripheral nervous system neoplasms

Health care; Diseases

Neoplasms which arise from peripheral nerve tissue. This includes neurofibromas; schwannomas; granular cell tumors; and malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors.

Neoplasms which originate from pineal parenchymal cells that tend to enlarge the gland and be locally invasive. The two major forms are pineocytoma and the more malignant pineoblastoma. Pineocytomas ...

ductal, lobular, and medullary neoplasms

Health care; Diseases

Neoplasms, usually carcinoma, located within the center of an organ or within small lobes, and in the case of the breast, intraductally. The emphasis of the name is on the location of the neoplastic ...

hypothalamic diseases

Health care; Diseases

Neoplastic, inflammatory, infectious, and other diseases of the hypothalamus. Clinical manifestations include appetite disorders; autonomic nervous system diseases; sleep disorders; behavioral ...

lyme neuroborreliosis

Health care; Diseases

Nervous system infections caused by tick-borne spirochetes of the borellia borgdorferi group. The disease may affect elements of the central or peripheral nervous system in isolation or in ...

facial neuralgia

Health care; Diseases

Neuralgic syndromes and other conditions which feature chronic or recurrent facial pain as the primary manifestation of disease. Disorders of the trigeminal and facial nerves are frequently ...

tauopathies

Health care; Diseases

Neurodegenerative disorders involving deposition of abnormal tau protein isoforms (Tau proteins) in neurons and glial cells in the brain. Pathological aggregations of tau proteins are associated with ...