Diseases

Xeroderma Pigmentosum

A rare, pigmentary, and atrophic autosomal recessive disease. It is manifested as an extreme photosensitivity to ULTRAVIOLET RAYS as the result of a deficiency in the enzyme that permits excisional repair of ultraviolet-damaged DNA.

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A rare, pigmentary, and atrophic autosomal recessive disease. It is manifested as an extreme photosensitivity to ULTRAVIOLET RAYS as the result of a deficiency in the enzyme that permits excisional repair of ultraviolet-damaged DNA.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Kaposi Disease
  • Kaposi's Disease
  • Kaposis Disease

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35 allowable subheadings

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, urine, veterinary, virology.

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if non-neoplastic, coordinate IM with precoordinated organ/disease term (IM); if neoplastic, coordinate IM with organ/neoplasm term (IM); do not confuse KAPOSI DISEASE with SARCOMA, KAPOSI

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History Note

63; KAPOSI DISEASE was KAPOSI'S DISEASE 1963-97

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WR 265

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Xeroderma Pigmentosum. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014983. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014983
  2. Xeroderma Pigmentosum. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeroderma_pigmentosum
  3. Xeroderma Pigmentosum. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q612693