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Descriptor English: Fasciitis
Descriptor Spanish: Fascitis
Descriptor fascitis
Scope note: Inflamación de la fascia. Hay tres tipos principales: 1) Fascitis eosinofílica, una reacción inflamatoria con eosinofilia, que produce engrosamiento firme de la piel con aspecto de piel de naranja, sugerente de esclerodermia y considerada por algunos como una variante de esta enfermedad; 2) Fascitis necrotizante (FASCITIS NECROTIZANTE), infección fulminante, grave (producida generalmente por un estreptococo beta hemolítico) causante de nectrosis extensa de la fascia superficial; 3) Fascitis Nodular/Pseudosarcomatosa /Proliferativa, caracterizada por un rápido crecimiento de fibroblastos con células inflamatorias mononucleadas y proliferación capilar en los tejidos blandos, a menudo en el antebrazo; no es maligna pero algunas veces se confunde con el fibrosarcoma.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fasciite
Descriptor French: Fasciite
Entry term(s): Fasciitides
Fascitides
Fascitis
Tree number(s): C05.321
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005208
Scope note: Inflammation of the fascia. There are three major types: 1, Eosinophilic fasciitis, an inflammatory reaction with eosinophilia, producing hard thickened skin with an orange-peel configuration suggestive of scleroderma and considered by some a variant of scleroderma; 2, Necrotizing fasciitis (FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING), a serious fulminating infection (usually by a beta hemolytic streptococcus) causing extensive necrosis of superficial fascia; 3, Nodular/Pseudosarcomatous /Proliferative fasciitis, characterized by a rapid growth of fibroblasts with mononuclear inflammatory cells and proliferating capillaries in soft tissue, often the forearm; it is not malignant but is sometimes mistaken for fibrosarcoma.
Annotation: see MeSH definition for major types; eosinophilic fasciitis: coord IM with EOSINOPHILIA (IM); FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING is available
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Eosinophilia (1966-1980)
Eosinophils (1966-1980)
Fascia (1966-1980)
Inflammation (1966-1980)
Necrosis (1966-1980)
Public MeSH Note: 81
History Note: 81
DeCS ID: 5312
Unique ID: D005208
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Date Established: 1981/01/01
Date of Entry: 1980/04/09
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Fasciitis - Preferred
Concept UI M0008239
Scope note Inflammation of the fascia. There are three major types: 1, Eosinophilic fasciitis, an inflammatory reaction with eosinophilia, producing hard thickened skin with an orange-peel configuration suggestive of scleroderma and considered by some a variant of scleroderma; 2, Necrotizing fasciitis (FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING), a serious fulminating infection (usually by a beta hemolytic streptococcus) causing extensive necrosis of superficial fascia; 3, Nodular/Pseudosarcomatous /Proliferative fasciitis, characterized by a rapid growth of fibroblasts with mononuclear inflammatory cells and proliferating capillaries in soft tissue, often the forearm; it is not malignant but is sometimes mistaken for fibrosarcoma.
Preferred term Fasciitis
Entry term(s) Fasciitides
Fascitides
Fascitis



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