24th September 2008
Kikuchi disease is rare condition. Kikuchi's disease, also called as histiocytic necrotizing lymphadenopathy. Kikuchi's illness is an infection or autoimmune disorder. It affects people of all national backgrounds, although it seems to influence women abo...
24th September 2008
Kidney cancer is a cancer that begins in the kidneys. The kidneys are part of the body’s urinary system, which filters waste products out of the blood in the form of urine. Kidney cancer starts in the cells of the kidney. The two kidneys are found on ei...
24th September 2008
Kernicterus is a form of brain damage caused by excessive jaundice. It also causes problems with vision and teeth and sometimes can result mental retardation. They are the basal ganglia, hippocampus, geniculate bodies and cranial nerve nuclei, especially ...
24th September 2008
Keratomalacia is a medical condition and eye disorder, in which cornea becomes dry and clouding over because of dietary calories, protein, and vitamin A deficiencies. Vitamin A is essential for normal vision as well as proper bone growth, healthy skin, an...
24th September 2008
Keratoconus is a rare condition. Keratoconus is a condition of the eye meaning conical conea. The cornea is the major focussing surface of the eye. Keratoconus may occur in one eye only initially but most commonly affects both eyes with one eye being more...
24th September 2008
Keratoacanthoma to be a less grave type of squamous cell carcinoma. Most keratoacanthoma result only minimal skin destruction, but some perform more belligerently and can spread to lymph nodes. Keratoacanthoma (KA) is a increase that is fairly common, ben...
24th September 2008
Kennedy's disease, also called is spinal and bulbar muscular atrophy. It is an advanced degenerative condition affecting worse motor neurons. It is one of nine neurodegenerative disorders result by a polyglutamine repeat expansion. Kennedy illness affects...
24th September 2008
Kearns-Sayre Syndrome belongs (in part) to a group of rare neuromuscular disorders known as mitochondrial encephalomyopathies. Kearns-Sayre Syndrome (KSS) is a very uncommon fatal multisystem disorder which generally affects female and males before the ag...
24th September 2008
Kawasaki disease (KD) is a febrile disease of childhood. It’s also known as Kawasaki syndrome or mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome. Kawasaki disease is an acute febrile disease with inflammation of little- and medium-sized blood vessels throughout the ...
24th September 2008
Kaposi's sarcoma (KS) is a illness in which cancer cells are initiate in the tissues under the skin or mucous membranes that line the mouth, nose, and anus. It most frequently is found in patients with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and can be...
24th September 2008
Kabuki syndrome is a condition primary noted in kids in Japan. Kabuki syndrome (KS), a inherited disorder characterized by odd facial features, skeletal abnormalities, and intellectual injury. In most cases, Kabuki syndrome arises spontaneously. Rarely, t...
24th September 2008
Scleroderma is a connective tissue disease involving skin, blood vessels and the immune system. In its systemic form, internal organ involvement can happen. Scleroderma is a fairly rare disorder in children. This rare disease affects approximately 5,000 t...
24th September 2008
Juvenile dermatomyositis is one of the conditions in a group of conditions called the dermatomyositis/polymyositis complex. The conditions in this complex are characterized by muscle damage due to an inflammatory process of the blood vessels that lie unde...
24th September 2008
Jarcho Levin syndrome is a genetic birth defect which causes malformed bones in the spine (vertebrae) and ribs. The chest has a characteristic crab-like appearance. Childs born with Jarcho Levin syndromes have intricacy breathing due to their little, malf...
24th September 2008
Japanese Encephalitis is caused by a virus. Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne Flavivirus that is closely associated to West Nile and St. Louis encephalitis viruses. Mosquitoes become infected by feeding on domestic pigs and wild birds ...
