A third had 85 percent mutant DNA and no overt symptoms, although tests revealed tissue abnormalities.

A culture-specific syndrome is not the same as a geographically localized disease with specific, identifiable, causal tissue abnormalities, such as kuru or sleeping sickness, or genetic conditions limited to certain populations.

Cause: What tissue abnormalities the patient believes to be the cause of the current problem.

Most people do not realize, nor are the media told, that any tissue abnormality (abrasion, eruption, or even redness) is called a pre-cancerous lesion.

The connective tissue abnormality most often affects the tissues that support the skeletal system, the eyes and the cardiovascular system.

Typically, a malignancy progresses for a decade or more from minor, noncancerous tissue abnormalities to obvious cancer, the report noted.

Inflammation with granuloma formation against a nonspecific inflammatory background is the classical tissue abnormality in all organs affected by Wegener's granulomatosis.

Marshall-Smith syndrome: An osteochondrodysplasia with connective tissue abnormalities.

Intestinal Connective tissue abnormality may cause Intestinal Desmosis The absence of the tendinous plexus layer was first described in 1998 by Meier-Ruge.

Because underlying connective tissue abnormalities cause Marfan syndrome, there is an increased incidence of dehiscence of prosthetic mitral valve.