Difference between revisions of "Starvation"

From Libre Pathology
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(link)
Line 23: Line 23:
[[Category:Autopsy]]
[[Category:Autopsy]]
[[Category:Weird stuff]]
[[Category:Weird stuff]]
[[Category:Clinical]]

Revision as of 17:34, 22 September 2010

Starvation is due to lack of food, inability or lack of desire to eat.

Gross

  • Serous atrophy:[1]
    • Soft brown/myxoid material replaces fat.

Associations[1]

  • Acute febrile states.
  • AIDS.
  • Alcoholism.
  • Anorexia nervosa.
  • Cachexia.
  • Carcinomas.
  • Chronic heart failure.
  • Lymphoma.

See also

References