Skip lesion

A skip lesion is a wound or inflammation that is clearly patchy, "skipping" areas that thereby are unharmed.

It is a typical form of intestinal damage in Crohn's disease, but may also be the kind of damage to the renal tubules in acute tubular necrosis.

Rarely, it is a characteristic of temporal arteritis.

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