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Mr Karzai said then that the firms had become a parallel security system and were causing obstructions to the development of Afghan government forces.

Prostate cancer typically affects elderly men, causing obstruction to the neck of the bladder and impairing urination.

The hallmark of asthma is the narrowing of the smaller airways causing obstruction to flow within the airways especially during expiration.

We postulate that DENV infection of the liver might affect the sinusoidal endothelial or Kupffer cells in a way that causes obstruction to the hepatic sinusoidal capillary lumen resulting in decreased portal venous blood velocity and flow to the liver and, when severe, shunting of portal blood away from the liver (hepatofugal flow).

In some patients, a hammock effect was observed, in which the walls of the venous segment protruded into the lumen of the valve causing obstruction, due to blood passing between the outer wall of the vein segment and the frame and/or to a Venturi effect.

This is caused by the migration of a clot, usually sitting in the large veins of the pelvis, to the lungs thus causing obstruction of blood flow to the lungs and then to the heart.

Desmoids range from small, indolent, or even regressive tumours to large and progressive growing neoplasms causing obstruction of vital organs.

It is important to differentiate benign hydrometra due to RT-induced cervical stenosis from locally recurrent tumour, which can also cause obstruction at the cervical os (Fig. 12).

Due to the small size of the defect, both sites have a high likelihood of causing obstruction.

Given that VOD/SOS and BCS cause obstruction to liver outflow, it is perhaps unsurprising that there are reports of similar findings in both conditions on MRI.

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