You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience.

hidradenitis suppurativa

Disease Summary
Associated Targets (9)
Tbio

4

Tchem

3

Tclin

2


Mondo Description A chronic suppurative and cicatricial disease of the apocrine glands occurring chiefly in the axillae in women and in the groin and anal regions in men. It is characterized by poral occlusion with secondary bacterial infection, evolving into abscesses which eventually rupture. As the disease becomes chronic, ulcers appear, sinus tracts enlarge, fistulas develop, and fibrosis and scarring become evident.
Disease Ontology Description A hidradenitis that is characterized by chronic inflammation of the apocrine sweat glands, has_symptom painful nodules, abscesses, sinus tract formation, scarring, erythema, pruritis, and pain, and has_material_basis_in chronic inflammation of the apocrine sweat glands leading to recurrent folliculitis and an accompanying immune response that worsens inflammation.
Mondo Term and Equivalent IDs
MONDO:0006559:  hidradenitis suppurativa
COHD:4241223: 
EFO:1000710: 
GARD:0006658: 
ICD10:L73.2: 
MESH:D017497: 
SCTID:59393003: 
UMLS:C0162836: