(1) A hallmark of C. septicum infection is the absence of acute inflammatory cells in involved tissues or in bulla fluid.
(2) These criteria were typed as A through D starting with nuclear homogenization and passing through vesicle formation, bulla formation and finally ulceration.
(3) We recommend this skin incision for young patients with pneumothorax if the chest CT scan confirms that the bullae or blebs are localized to the apex of superior segment of the lower lobe.
(4) To test ciliary clearance, the fluid was placed in either the tympanum or the mastoid bulla.
(5) At the end of the experimental period, tissue specimens were obtained, and histomorphometric evaluation of the ventral bullae was performed.
(6) the present report deals with a mason without previous dermatitis, presenting bullae, ulcers and necrosis in lower limbs, short time after incidental contact at work, with premixed concrete.
(7) The ciliary activity in the bulla was declined at any time examined.
(8) The eyes of certain marine gastropods including Aplysia and Bulla, contain circadian pacemakers, which produce a circadian rhythm of autogenous compound action potential (CAP) activity.
(9) These findings suggest that pulmonary bullae and eosinophilic pneumonia may be a rare manifestation of pulmonary aspergillosis.
(10) Vibrio vulnificus was isolated from blood and bullae in both patients.
(11) Twenty guinea pigs were immunized with horseradish peroxidase (HRP) intradermally and challenged with 5 mg of the same antigen in the tympanic bulla.
(12) In the present experiments, human temporal bones, guinea pigs' bullae and plastic models were used.
(13) Papillary dermal edema, subepidermal bullae, and spongiosis were prominent.
(14) Acute inflammation was followed by the development of highly vascular granulation tissue and formation of new bone within the middle ear bulla.
(15) The patient developed a confluent maculopapular erythema and large flaccid bullae of trunk, legs, feet and mucous membranes, with fever up to 38 degrees C. Toxic epidermal necrolisis (TEN) was supposed and the diagnosis was confirmed by a skin patch test followed by cutaneous biopsy.
(16) This method makes it possible to examine both mediastinal pleura and adhesive pleural space, and to electrocoagulate bullae which cannot be visualized by a rigid thoracoscope.
(17) The time for complete absorption of these circumscribed subretinal bullae ranged from 8 to 52 weeks (mean 22.7 weeks).
(18) Favorable radiographic findings included well-defined, large air spaces without stigmata of diffuse emphysema, serial films showing rapid enlargement of bullae, and expiration films with good thoracic motion and obscuration of lung around bullae.
(19) Surgical procedures included lobectomy (n = 317), pneumonectomy (n = 41), wedge resection (n = 82), resections of blebs or bullae (n = 17), thoracotomy and biopsy for unresectable lesion (n = 6), and decortication (n = 5).
(20) The latter may have been related to the circumferential distribution of the bullae around each lung.
Cyst
Definition:
(n.) A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavities or in the substance of an organ.
(n.) In old authors, the urinary bladder, or the gall bladder.
(n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores.
(n.) A small capsule or sac of the kind in which many immature entozoans exist in the tissues of living animals; also, a similar form in Rotifera, etc.
(n.) A form assumed by Protozoa in which they become saclike and quiescent. It generally precedes the production of germs. See Encystment.
Example Sentences:
(1) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(2) The increase in red blood cell mass was associated with an elevation in erythropoietic stimulatory activity in serum, pleural fluid, and tumor-cyst fluid as determined by the exhypoxic polycythemic mouse assay.
(3) Diagnostic work-up and management of intracranial arachnoid cysts are still controversial.
(4) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
(5) These cases show that an examination of the whole neuraxis is as important in patients with midline posterior fossa cysts as it is in patients with developmental syringomyelia or Chiari I malformation.
(6) The exception to this rule is a cyst which can be safely aspirated under controlled conditions.
(7) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
(8) It is especially efficacious in evaluating patients with cystic lesions, especially those with complex cysts not clearly of water density.
(9) In cases in which CT was also performed, it revealed corresponding hypodensities in two infarctions, but failed to reveal the foci of gliosis (or noncavital infarction), demyelination, or brain cyst.
(10) This light microscopic comparison of viable FDA- and nonviable PI-stained cysts of G. muris demonstrates that 2 types of cysts can be distinguished and implies that structural differences can be used to identify these subpopulations of cysts.
(11) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
(12) The resistance of GSA 65 to proteolytic degradation, together with previous immunofluorescence data that indicate the antigen is an integral part of the G. lamblia cyst wall, suggests that this molecule may play a role in maintaining the integrity of the cyst in vivo.
(13) Radiographic examination revealed that three of the cysts had increased is size, three had decreased in size, three had not changed in size, and two had disappeared; no evaluation could be made on two.
(14) Zinc alpha-2 glycoprotein (ZnGP) was measured in human breast microcysts, breast secretions, breast cyst fluid and serum.
(15) The diagnosis of meningeal cyst was confirmed in a non-invasive way by MRI showing a mass with the same signal intensities as CSF on both T1 and T2 weighted images.
(16) Furthermore, the different types of adrenal cysts reported in the literature and the differential diagnosis from other adrenal cystic lesions, mainly tumors and infections, are discussed.
(17) Splenectomy is the operation of choice for cysts of the spleen in children.
(18) The concentration of potassium (K+) and sodium (Na+) was measured in breast cyst fluid (BCF) from 611 cysts greater than 3 ml aspirated in 520 women with gross cystic disease of the breast.
(19) Although bronchogenic cysts may involve the mediastinum, they have rarely been responsible for significant upper airway obstruction.
(20) Radiographically the bone cyst distinguishes itself by its central localisation in the metaphysis, where as the giant cell tumor has an excentric position in the epiphysis with a tendency of extending into the metaphysis.