Fasciitis

Fasciitis is an inflammation of the fascia,^[1] which is the connective tissue surrounding muscles, blood vessels and nerves.

In particular, it often involves one of the following diseases:

Necrotizing fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis
Ischemic fasciitis,^[2] classified by the World Health Organization, 2020, as a specific tumor form in the category of fibroblastic and myofibroblastic tumors.^[3]
Eosinophilic fasciitis
Paraneoplastic fasciitis

References[edit | edit source]

↑ "fasciitis". TheFreeDictionary. Archived from the original on 22 May 2019. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
↑ Kuyumcu G, Zhang Y, Ilaslan H (December 2019). "Case 272: Decubital Ischemic Fasciitis". Radiology. 293 (3): 721–724. doi:10.1148/radiol.2019171255. PMID 31751192.
↑ Sbaraglia M, Bellan E, Dei Tos AP (April 2021). "The 2020 WHO Classification of Soft Tissue Tumours: news and perspectives". Pathologica. 113 (2): 70–84. doi:10.32074/1591-951X-213. PMC 8167394. PMID 33179614.

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