Skip lesion

{{Short description|Patchy wound or inflammation}}

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.{{cite journal | doi = 10.1136/jcp.53.2.137 | volume=53 | title=The importance of skip lesions in temporal arteritis | journal=Journal of Clinical Pathology | pages=137–139| pmc=1763281 | pmid=10767830 | year=2000 | last1 = Poller | first1 = DN | last2 = van Wyk | first2 = Q | last3 = Jeffrey | first3 = MJ| issue=2 }}