(1) Since the classical extraction was not possible because of the rooth mass and the alveol wideness, we did the alveotomia.
(2) A marked peripheral predominance of the interstitial densities was seen in all seven cases of fibrosing alveolitis and in the patient with rheumatoid lung, in marked contrast with the two cases of hypersensitivity pneumonitis in whom a central distribution of the changes was seen.
(3) Lymphocytic alveolitis must be added to the expanding clinical spectrum of acute HIV-1 infection.
(4) A case of atypical extrinsic allergic alveolitis in a 13-year-old is reported.
(5) Qualitative assessment of lung HA has previously demonstrated that HA is accumulated in the edematous interstitial alveolar space during the alveolitis phase of bleomycin injury.
(6) This cross-sectional study was undertaken after the discovery of cobalt-related fibrosing alveolitis and bronchial asthma in diamond polishers occupationally exposed to cobalt.
(7) The CT appearance of lymphangioleiomyomatosis differs quite distinctly from that of other diseases that can cause cystic air spaces, such as fibrosing alveolitis, neurofibromatosis, and bronchiectasis, and less distinctly from pulmonary emphysema and eosinophilic granuloma.
(8) A specific pattern in which fibrosis was distributed posteriorly in the lower zones, laterally in the middle zones, and anteriorly in the upper zones was seen in 11 patients with cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis and in four with asbestosis.
(9) Three cases of allergic alveolitis due to indoor humdification systems are described.
(10) The significance of the persisting alveolitis, despite treatment, is not known at present.
(11) Histologically the most conspicuous were the findings of the hyaline alveolar membrane and the cellular atypia of endothel of the alveoles and the lymph-ducts.
(12) Supernatant radioactivity correlated with the presence of neutrophil alveolitis, but not with BAL transferrin concentrations.
(13) It is over 25 years since Scadding first defined the term fibrosing alveolitis.
(14) Wood-trimmers' disease, generally called extrinsic allergic alveolitis, which affects workers in sawmills, is thought to be caused by fungal diaspores.
(15) Two cases of methotrexate-induced fibrosing alveolitis are reported.
(16) However, although the immune and inflammatory cells situated in the lung modulate the lesions in the respiratory tree, it may be reasonable to propose the hypothesis that the evaluation of the clinical state of patients with sarcoidosis might take into account the degree of the alveolitis.
(17) However, the amount of IL-2 produced by lung T-cells (BALT IL-2) showed a significant negative correlation with the intensity of alveolitis.
(18) These results indicate that daily oral prednisolone therapy may suppress the alveolitis in certain patients with chronic silicosis and bring about a significant improvement in lung functions and gas exchange.
(19) Although occasional pathologic descriptions of open-lung biopsies have recognized the presence of inflammatory cells, suggesting a similarity to "lone" cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, the two conditions have never been formally compared.
(20) A subclinical inflammatory alveolitis as assessed by BAL cell analysis may be present in a high proportion of symptomless patients with immunological systemic disorders and with normal chest roentgenogram.
Honeycomb
Definition:
(n.) A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.
(n.) Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later alveolar septa between adjacent bronchioles became progressively thickened to produce lesions with similarities to human honeycombing.
(2) Honeycombing was seen in seven patients (30%), while parenchymal bands were seen in six patients (26%).
(3) In all cases the Papanicolaou stained lavage fluid presented a distinctive appearance and contained abundant, often biphasic, staining, "honeycomb" debris, and few alveolar macrophages.
(4) Chest x-ray revealed a honeycombed reticulonodular pattern consistent with pulmonary histiocytosis-X.
(5) Human rotavirus has a characteristic icosahedral structure which has a honeycomb-like appearance on the surface of the smooth particles and 42 polygonal capsomeres in the rough particles.
(6) We found significant differences in grading scores of the following parameters: follicular adenomas showed greater cellularity, greater follicle formation, larger nuclei, and more nuclear pleomorphism and overlap; adenomatous nodules showed more colloid and honeycomb arrangements.
(7) The histological features were similar in all the cases--most strikingly the basket weave pattern of the thickened pleura and a dense subpleural parenchymal interstitial fibrosis with fine honeycombing, extending up to 1 cm into the underlying lung.
(8) Chest X-ray films revealed bilateral diffuse nodular shadows, honeycombing in the lower lung fields and pleural thickening suggestive of idiopathic interstitial pneumonia.
(9) Parenchymal and vascular changes were closely related: Average medial thickness rose from nearly normal values (4.9%) in cases with low area portions of honeycombing and bleeding to the double (11.1%) of normal values in cases with area portions of honeycombing and bleeding greater than 40%.
(10) The specimen showed a honeycomb appearance with mucoid content.
(11) In the lacunae, honeycomb-like structures were found.
(12) Focal honeycombing was the major parenchymal abnormality after 4 weeks.
(13) The branched capillaries from the afferent filament arteriole formed two plates of respiratory capillary networks with irregular honeycomb-shaped meshes.
(14) Granular pial cells usually contained large honeycomb bodies and were a prominent feature of the ageing leptomeninx but in contrast leptomeningeal macrophages showed no evidence of phagocytic activity suggesting that cell death or degeneration was not a feature of cells of the leptomeninx even in extremely old mice.
(15) A characteristic "honeycomb" pattern of the subcutaneous compartment was seen in 10 of these patients.
(16) In the outer part of the enamel the interprismatic substance exhibited a honeycomb appearance.
(17) Post-eruptive lesions that resulted from mechanical stress on hypomineralized enamel during mastication were characterized by steep walls and a typical honeycomb structure on their bottom, a result of fracture of enamel rods; holes left by fractured rods were surrounded by interrod enamel.
(18) Patients with bronchial asthma often develop acute attack in kitchen while burning honeycomb briquet which is widely used for cooking in southern China.
(19) In freeze-fracture, the zonulae occludentes are of variable apicobasal depth and consist of honeycomb-like meshworks of fibrils.
(20) In two lungs with honeycombing, cysts lined by fibrosis were easily seen on high-resolution CT scans.