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Also known as Fascitis

Fasciitis is an inflammation of the fascia, which is the connective tissue surrounding muscles, blood vessels and nerves.

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disease
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Fasciitis
NCI Thesaurus ID
C50559
health specialty
rheumatology
ICPC 2 ID
L87
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

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fasciitis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.