fasciitis
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Fasciitis is an inflammation of the fascia, which is the connective tissue surrounding muscles, blood vessels and nerves.
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- Rheumatology
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Research
12,543 papers- Diagnosis and treatment of plantar fasciitis.American family physician · 2011
- Plantar Fasciitis/Fasciosis.Clinics in podiatric medicine and surgery · 2021
- Eosinophilic Fasciitis: Current and Remaining Challenges.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
- Eosinophilic fasciitis: From pathophysiology to treatment.Allergology international : official journal of the Japanese Society of Allergology · 2019
- Eosinophilic fasciitis.Medicina clinica · 2025
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- Fasciitis
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C50559
- health specialty
- rheumatology
- ICPC 2 ID
- L87
- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0100537
- ICD-9-CM
- 729.4
- risk factor
- smoking
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Fasciitis is an inflammation of the fascia, which is the connective tissue surrounding muscles, blood vessels and nerves.
Particular forms include: Necrotizing fasciitis Plantar fasciitis Ischemic fasciitis, classified by the World Health Organization, 2020, as a specific tumor form in the category of fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors. Eosinophilic fasciitis Paraneoplastic fasciitis
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