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Necrotizing inflammation of the CECUM (typhlon in Greek), sometimes spreading to the APPENDIX and/or the ILEUM. Symptoms include ABDOMINAL PAIN and DIARRHEA. Its pathogenesis is multifactorial. Typhlitis is often associated with NEUTROPENIA and chemotherapy in immunocompromised individuals (IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST).
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- Cecitis
- Neutropenic Typhlitis
- Typhlitis, Neutropenic
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2007 (2004)
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- National Library of Medicine. Typhlitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D053706. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D053706
- Typhlitis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutropenic_enterocolitis
- Typhlitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q462339