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Medical mnemonics

Last reviewed dd mmm yyyy. Last edited dd mmm yyyy

Authoring team

Surgical Sieve (INVITED MD)

Causes can be:

  • congital
  • acquired
    • Infection
    • Neoplasia
    • Vascular Inflammatory/autoimmune
    • Trauma
    • Endocrine
    • Degenerative
    • Metabolic
    • Drugs
    • Congenital

For any disease (Dressed In a Surgeon's Gown A Physician Might Make Some Significant Progress)

  • Definition
  • Incidence
  • Sex
  • Geography
  • Aetiology
  • Pathogenesis
  • Macroscopic pathology
  • Microscopic pathology
  • Symptoms
  • Signs
  • Prognosis

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