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Mass

MedGen UID:
108287
•Concept ID:
C0577559
•
Finding
Synonyms: Localized mass; Lump; Mass of body structure; Observation of a mass
SNOMED CT: Observation of a mass (300848003); Lump (300848003); Mass (300848003); Mass of body structure (300848003); Mass (4147007); Localized mass (4147007); Lump (4147007)

Definition

A benign or malignant pathologic structure in any part of the body, resulting from a neoplastic accumulation of cells, inflammatory cells, or cystic changes. [from NCI]

Term Hierarchy

CClinical test,  RResearch test,  OOMIM,  GGeneReviews,  VClinVar  
  • CROGVMass

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Definition and Diagnostic Criteria for Sarcopenic Obesity: ESPEN and EASO Consensus Statement.
Donini LM, Busetto L, Bischoff SC, Cederholm T, Ballesteros-Pomar MD, Batsis JA, Bauer JM, Boirie Y, Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Dicker D, Frara S, Frühbeck G, Genton L, Gepner Y, Giustina A, Gonzalez MC, Han HS, Heymsfield SB, Higashiguchi T, Laviano A, Lenzi A, Nyulasi I, Parrinello E, Poggiogalle E, Prado CM, Salvador J, Rolland Y, Santini F, Serlie MJ, Shi H, Sieber CC, Siervo M, Vettor R, Villareal DT, Volkert D, Yu J, Zamboni M, Barazzoni R
Obes Facts 2022;15(3):321-335. Epub 2022 Feb 23 doi: 10.1159/000521241. PMID: 35196654Free PMC Article
Pediatric Obesity-Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.
Styne DM, Arslanian SA, Connor EL, Farooqi IS, Murad MH, Silverstein JH, Yanovski JA
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017 Mar 1;102(3):709-757. doi: 10.1210/jc.2016-2573. PMID: 28359099Free PMC Article
Exercise management in type 1 diabetes: a consensus statement.
Riddell MC, Gallen IW, Smart CE, Taplin CE, Adolfsson P, Lumb AN, Kowalski A, Rabasa-Lhoret R, McCrimmon RJ, Hume C, Annan F, Fournier PA, Graham C, Bode B, Galassetti P, Jones TW, Millán IS, Heise T, Peters AL, Petz A, Laffel LM
Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2017 May;5(5):377-390. Epub 2017 Jan 24 doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(17)30014-1. PMID: 28126459

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Impact of probiotics on muscle mass, muscle strength and lean mass: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.
Prokopidis K, Giannos P, Kirwan R, Ispoglou T, Galli F, Witard OC, Triantafyllidis KK, Kechagias KS, Morwani-Mangnani J, Ticinesi A, Isanejad M
J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2023 Feb;14(1):30-44. Epub 2022 Nov 22 doi: 10.1002/jcsm.13132. PMID: 36414567Free PMC Article
Predicted fat mass and lean mass in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality.
Liu M, Zhang Z, Zhou C, Ye Z, He P, Zhang Y, Li H, Liu C, Qin X
J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2022 Apr;13(2):1064-1075. Epub 2022 Jan 23 doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12921. PMID: 35068076Free PMC Article
Clinical Practice Guideline: Evaluation of the Neck Mass in Adults.
Pynnonen MA, Gillespie MB, Roman B, Rosenfeld RM, Tunkel DE, Bontempo L, Brook I, Chick DA, Colandrea M, Finestone SA, Fowler JC, Griffith CC, Henson Z, Levine C, Mehta V, Salama A, Scharpf J, Shatzkes DR, Stern WB, Youngerman JS, Corrigan MD
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 2017 Sep;157(2_suppl):S1-S30. doi: 10.1177/0194599817722550. PMID: 28891406
Use of mass media campaigns to change health behaviour.
Wakefield MA, Loken B, Hornik RC
Lancet 2010 Oct 9;376(9748):1261-71. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)60809-4. PMID: 20933263Free PMC Article
Mass hysteria revisited.
Balaratnasingam S, Janca A
Curr Opin Psychiatry 2006 Mar;19(2):171-4. doi: 10.1097/01.yco.0000214343.59872.7a. PMID: 16612198

Diagnosis

Mass spectrometry in the diagnosis of thyroid disease and in the study of thyroid hormone metabolism.
Borsò M, Agretti P, Zucchi R, Saba A
Mass Spectrom Rev 2022 May;41(3):443-468. Epub 2020 Nov 25 doi: 10.1002/mas.21673. PMID: 33238065
Pseudotumoral Endometriotic Nodule.
Engels S, Nisolle M, Karampelas S
J Minim Invasive Gynecol 2021 Dec;28(12):1973-1974. Epub 2021 Jul 2 doi: 10.1016/j.jmig.2021.06.025. PMID: 34224873
Elemental analysis in biotechnology.
Hann S, Dernovics M, Koellensperger G
Curr Opin Biotechnol 2015 Feb;31:93-100. Epub 2014 Sep 30 doi: 10.1016/j.copbio.2014.08.008. PMID: 25280374
Ion mobility-mass spectrometry.
Kanu AB, Dwivedi P, Tam M, Matz L, Hill HH Jr
J Mass Spectrom 2008 Jan;43(1):1-22. doi: 10.1002/jms.1383. PMID: 18200615
Mass hysteria revisited.
Balaratnasingam S, Janca A
Curr Opin Psychiatry 2006 Mar;19(2):171-4. doi: 10.1097/01.yco.0000214343.59872.7a. PMID: 16612198

Therapy

Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices.
Alseekh S, Aharoni A, Brotman Y, Contrepois K, D'Auria J, Ewald J, C Ewald J, Fraser PD, Giavalisco P, Hall RD, Heinemann M, Link H, Luo J, Neumann S, Nielsen J, Perez de Souza L, Saito K, Sauer U, Schroeder FC, Schuster S, Siuzdak G, Skirycz A, Sumner LW, Snyder MP, Tang H, Tohge T, Wang Y, Wen W, Wu S, Xu G, Zamboni N, Fernie AR
Nat Methods 2021 Jul;18(7):747-756. Epub 2021 Jul 8 doi: 10.1038/s41592-021-01197-1. PMID: 34239102Free PMC Article
Oral Cancer Screening: Past, Present, and Future.
Warnakulasuriya S, Kerr AR
J Dent Res 2021 Nov;100(12):1313-1320. Epub 2021 May 26 doi: 10.1177/00220345211014795. PMID: 34036828Free PMC Article
Translational Sepsis Research: Spanning the Divide.
Lewis AJ, Lee JS, Rosengart MR
Crit Care Med 2018 Sep;46(9):1497-1505. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000003271. PMID: 30113370Free PMC Article
Confounding: what it is and how to deal with it.
Jager KJ, Zoccali C, Macleod A, Dekker FW
Kidney Int 2008 Feb;73(3):256-60. Epub 2007 Oct 31 doi: 10.1038/sj.ki.5002650. PMID: 17978811
Long term domiciliary oxygen therapy in chronic hypoxic cor pulmonale complicating chronic bronchitis and emphysema. Report of the Medical Research Council Working Party.
Lancet 1981 Mar 28;1(8222):681-6. PMID: 6110912

Prognosis

Association of Telomere Length With Risk of Disease and Mortality.
Schneider CV, Schneider KM, Teumer A, Rudolph KL, Hartmann D, Rader DJ, Strnad P
JAMA Intern Med 2022 Mar 1;182(3):291-300. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2021.7804. PMID: 35040871Free PMC Article
Association of Obesity With Survival Outcomes in Patients With Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
Petrelli F, Cortellini A, Indini A, Tomasello G, Ghidini M, Nigro O, Salati M, Dottorini L, Iaculli A, Varricchio A, Rampulla V, Barni S, Cabiddu M, Bossi A, Ghidini A, Zaniboni A
JAMA Netw Open 2021 Mar 1;4(3):e213520. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.3520. PMID: 33779745Free PMC Article
Lung cancer mortality reduction by LDCT screening-Results from the randomized German LUSI trial.
Becker N, Motsch E, Trotter A, Heussel CP, Dienemann H, Schnabel PA, Kauczor HU, Maldonado SG, Miller AB, Kaaks R, Delorme S
Int J Cancer 2020 Mar 15;146(6):1503-1513. Epub 2019 Jun 20 doi: 10.1002/ijc.32486. PMID: 31162856
Predicted lean body mass, fat mass, and all cause and cause specific mortality in men: prospective US cohort study.
Lee DH, Keum N, Hu FB, Orav EJ, Rimm EB, Willett WC, Giovannucci EL
BMJ 2018 Jul 3;362:k2575. doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2575. PMID: 29970408Free PMC Article
Epidemiology and one-year outcomes in patients with chronic heart failure and preserved, mid-range and reduced ejection fraction: an analysis of the ESC Heart Failure Long-Term Registry.
Chioncel O, Lainscak M, Seferovic PM, Anker SD, Crespo-Leiro MG, Harjola VP, Parissis J, Laroche C, Piepoli MF, Fonseca C, Mebazaa A, Lund L, Ambrosio GA, Coats AJ, Ferrari R, Ruschitzka F, Maggioni AP, Filippatos G
Eur J Heart Fail 2017 Dec;19(12):1574-1585. Epub 2017 Apr 6 doi: 10.1002/ejhf.813. PMID: 28386917

Clinical prediction guides

Clinical and genetic associations of deep learning-derived cardiac magnetic resonance-based left ventricular mass.
Khurshid S, Lazarte J, Pirruccello JP, Weng LC, Choi SH, Hall AW, Wang X, Friedman SF, Nauffal V, Biddinger KJ, Aragam KG, Batra P, Ho JE, Philippakis AA, Ellinor PT, Lubitz SA
Nat Commun 2023 Mar 21;14(1):1558. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-37173-w. PMID: 36944631Free PMC Article
Common errors in mass spectrometry-based analysis of post-translational modifications.
Kim MS, Zhong J, Pandey A
Proteomics 2016 Mar;16(5):700-14. doi: 10.1002/pmic.201500355. PMID: 26667783Free PMC Article
A review of the measurement of grip strength in clinical and epidemiological studies: towards a standardised approach.
Roberts HC, Denison HJ, Martin HJ, Patel HP, Syddall H, Cooper C, Sayer AA
Age Ageing 2011 Jul;40(4):423-9. Epub 2011 May 30 doi: 10.1093/ageing/afr051. PMID: 21624928
Dysphagia bedside screening for acute-stroke patients: the Gugging Swallowing Screen.
Trapl M, Enderle P, Nowotny M, Teuschl Y, Matz K, Dachenhausen A, Brainin M
Stroke 2007 Nov;38(11):2948-52. Epub 2007 Sep 20 doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.483933. PMID: 17885261
The NAFLD fibrosis score: a noninvasive system that identifies liver fibrosis in patients with NAFLD.
Angulo P, Hui JM, Marchesini G, Bugianesi E, George J, Farrell GC, Enders F, Saksena S, Burt AD, Bida JP, Lindor K, Sanderson SO, Lenzi M, Adams LA, Kench J, Therneau TM, Day CP
Hepatology 2007 Apr;45(4):846-54. doi: 10.1002/hep.21496. PMID: 17393509

Recent systematic reviews

Nutrition and Exercise Interventions to Improve Body Composition for Persons with Overweight or Obesity Near Retirement Age: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Eglseer D, Traxler M, Embacher S, Reiter L, Schoufour JD, Weijs PJM, Voortman T, Boirie Y, Cruz-Jentoft A, Bauer S; SO-NUTS consortium
Adv Nutr 2023 May;14(3):516-538. Epub 2023 Apr 6 doi: 10.1016/j.advnut.2023.04.001. PMID: 37028708Free PMC Article
Improving nutrition in cystic fibrosis: A systematic literature review.
Mielus M, Sands D, Woynarowski M
Nutrition 2022 Oct;102:111725. Epub 2022 May 6 doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2022.111725. PMID: 35816813
Effects of β-hydroxy β-methylbutyrate (HMB) supplementation on muscle mass, function, and other outcomes in patients with cancer: a systematic review.
Prado CM, Orsso CE, Pereira SL, Atherton PJ, Deutz NEP
J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle 2022 Jun;13(3):1623-1641. Epub 2022 Mar 17 doi: 10.1002/jcsm.12952. PMID: 35301826Free PMC Article
Management of Sarcopenia: A Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Negm AM, Lee J, Hamidian R, Jones CA, Khadaroo RG
J Am Med Dir Assoc 2022 May;23(5):707-714. Epub 2022 Feb 18 doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2022.01.057. PMID: 35183490
Effects of l-carnitine supplementation on weight loss and body composition: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 37 randomized controlled clinical trials with dose-response analysis.
Talenezhad N, Mohammadi M, Ramezani-Jolfaie N, Mozaffari-Khosravi H, Salehi-Abargouei A
Clin Nutr ESPEN 2020 Jun;37:9-23. Epub 2020 Apr 18 doi: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2020.03.008. PMID: 32359762

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