Complex (medicine)

In medicine, a complex or disease complex is a group of diseases or malformations which statistically occur more often together than would happen by pure chance . Different combinations of the individual diseases can occur from case to case.

Examples of this are in human medicine , for example, the VATER , also VACTERL complex , in veterinary medicine, for example, the feline gingivitis-stomatitis-pharyngitis complex .

In contrast to the complex, with a disease syndrome various individual disease symptoms occur together in a fixed pattern.

See also

• List of syndromes : it also contains the disease complexes.

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1. ^ T. Lissauer, G. Clayden: Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics . Mosby - Elsevier, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 0-7234-3178-7 , there in English. Original "association"

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