7 results for “Reaction Department”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Usefulness of Claudin 4 in the cytological diagnosis of serosal effusions
…peritoneum (6), were found to be positive. Claudin 4 was also extremely useful in detecting single-tumor cells dispersed among heavy inflammatory reaction. Because of its high sensitivity (99.1%) and specificity (100%), Claudin 4 might…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2014
Positive FDG-PET/CT of the pleura twenty years after talc pleurodesis: three cases of benign talcoma
…This inflammatory reaction could decrease with time, as in other inflammatory processes. Since talc is not metabolized by the body, the FDG-PET scan can remain positive, most likely because of a foreign-body granulomatous reaction…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2010
Pleural granuloma mimicking malignancy 42 years after slurry talc injection for primary spontaneous pneumothorax
…malignant cells or asbestos fibers. Keyhole surgery was converted to open surgery and the pleura was removed. The pathologist diagnosed chronic granulomatous pleuritis caused by a foreign body reaction, likely talc. Only on detailed questioning did…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2019
Chronic follicular pleuritis: a B cell-rich form of nonspecific pleuritis/fibrosis
…pleuritis/fibrosis (NSP) is rendered. The histology of this reaction has not been well described including a pattern of B cell lymphoid hyperplasia described as "chronic follicular pleuritis (CFP)". Thirty-two cases of NSP were studied…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2012
Extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue type arising in the pleura with pleural fibrous plaques in a lathe worker
…pleura and diffuse infiltration of small- to medium-sized B lymphocytes. Polymerase chain reaction-based analysis detected monoclonal rearrangement of immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes. Histologic diagnosis was extranodal marginal zone lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2011
Non-neoplastic and neoplastic pleural endpoints following fiber exposure
…diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma. Translocation and retention of fibers are fundamental processes in understanding the interactions between the dose and dimensions of fibers retained at this anatomic site and the subsequent pathological reactions. The initial interaction…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 21, 2010 · in the opinion
Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2010)
…excessive cigarette smoking, heart disease, obesity, asthma, emphysema and allergic reactions. 1171 Id., at 687 n. 2. The condition the majority herein describes as compensable injury is "shortness of breath." Majority Op., at 1164. Despite Simmons…