(n.) A kind of soft tumor, usually of syphilitic origin.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case is presented outlining the surgical correction of a palatal defect resulting from a gumma using a tongue flap.
(2) Case 1 The patient, a 9-year-old boy, had been suffering from headache and vomiting for 3 months prior to admission to the Neurosurgical Clinic, Gumma University Hospital.
(3) Roughly one third of patients with untreated syphilis develop severe late manifestations: 10.4% show cardiovascular involvement, 6.5% get neurosyphilis and 15.8% have a gumma.
(4) A case of focal cerebral syphilitic gumma of the right temporal lobe is reported.
(5) The differential diagnoses included duct ectasia, a foreign-body giant-cell reaction with fat necrosis, foreign material or an abscess, granulomatous mastitis, fungal mastitis, sarcoidosis and a syphilitic gumma.
(6) All other examined liver lesions (metastases, haemangiomas, lymphatic infiltrates, echinococcus cysts, FNH, gummae) showed greater signal intensity than the remaining organ at small angle excitation.
(7) We describe two human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patients with syphilitic cerebral gummas.
(8) Surgery was performed and the histopathological study revealed a tuberculoid, granuloma-forming gumma.
(9) A case is presented of tabes dorsalis with spinal gumma producing collapse of the L5 vertebra followed by paraplegia.
(10) Because of the radiological findings a malignant lymphoma was diagnosed and biopsy was performed, however, histological investigation confirmed the diagnosis of cerebral gumma.
(11) The clinical features, radiographic appearance, and response to therapy suggest that this lesion was a focal syphilitic inflammatory process, or gumma.
(12) For a patient in good general condition with a suspected gumma, medical treatment can be given initially, with follow-up by CT, neurosurgery being indicated only in case of failure of medical therapy.
(13) Gummas are the expression of localized meningovascular forms of neurosyphilis and their clinical symptoms and signs are similar to those of any other space-occupying intracranial lesion.
(14) Among his articles dealing with neurology are those dealing with luetic gumma of the brain, tabes cervicodorsalis, Aran-Duchenne muscular atrophy, bulbar paralysis, etc.
(15) A case of cerebral gumma in the left trigonal region is reported.
(16) In some cases a positive diagnosis can be made only by pathological examination after surgical ablation of the gumma.
(17) Cerebral gumma has been reported only rarely during the last few decades, and there are only a few descriptions of the neuroradiological characteristics of this disease.
(18) On the basis of brain biopsy, a convexity mass was diagnosed in the patient with syphilitic gumma.
(19) Surgical exploration by dorsal laminectomy showed a syphilitic gumma attached to the spinal cord.
(20) The patient reported here had multiple infections including one due to cytomegalovirus after ablation of the gumma, highly suggesting an immunity disorder.
Syphilis
Definition:
(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sera of 375 blood donors which were seropositive for syphilis were examined for antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica.
(2) The dramatic nationwide increase of primary and secondary syphilis in women has precipitated a dramatic rise in congenital syphilis.
(3) These structures were also found in the blood or spinal fluid (SF) of asymptomatic patients with both positive and negative serological tests for syphilis.
(4) These findings provide a framework for future investigations of our congenital syphilis model.
(5) Several months later, as the patient experienced relapses with cerebellar and spinal cord involvement, falsely positive tests for syphilis were found and an antibiotic treatment was given.
(6) The expression of such secondary and tertiary syphilis is commonly masked and distorted by the long-term effects of subcurative doses of antibiotics; in fact, late latent and tertiary syphilis produce symptoms and immunosuppression similar to the profile of AIDS.
(7) The CSF-TPHA test was positive in four out of 12 children, and the CSF-VDRL test was negative in all the children with active congenital syphilis.
(8) Binding of aCL in syphilis to solid phase CL was competitively inhibited by either addition of the cofactor or fluid phase CL.
(9) Serological tests for hepatitis A (HA) and B (HB), syphilis and HIV were performed on blood samples from 3 groups of homosexual men: 220 and 124 asymptomatic men being investigated in 1978 and 1980 respectively and another 98 men suffering from HA during the winter 1979-80.
(10) To evaluate the effect of ceftriaxone in treating latent syphilis or asymptomatic neurosyphilis in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
(11) Lyme borreliosis has in common features with another spirochetosis, syphilis, e.g.
(12) Compared to cases in the previous year, infectious syphilis cases among prostitutes and seasonal farm workers decreased 51.3 per cent and 26.8 per cent, respectively.
(13) A clinically manifest primary or secondary syphilis that develops during pregnancy has become an extremely rare occurrence.
(14) Beside being responsible for positivity of the VDRL test in the context of syphilis, APAB (false serological reactions for syphilis, LA, anticardiolipin antibodies) have also been detected in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus-like syndromes, after intake of certain drugs, and, more rarely, in a number of diseases (table I).
(15) A protocol outline for diagnosis and therapy of syphilis is included in the discussion.
(16) Cryptococcosis occurred in association with toxoplasmosis in one patient who developed syphilis in the follow-up; oligoclonal distribution of gamma globulins occurred in this case.
(17) However, the treatment failed to prevent infection in the infant, and the baby had developed signs of congenital syphilis at 10 weeks of age.
(18) The protocol was devised by first evaluating a range of kits in London using a battery of African and non-African sera and then field testing 1455 sera in Malaŵi, which included 184 sera from leprosy patients and 60 sera from syphilis patients to check for cross-reactivity.
(19) Individual sequelae are most significnat when congenital syphilis is allowed to develop due to delays in treating the pregnant woman or newborn child.
(20) There is a suggestion of a plateau having occurred in adult and congenital syphilis, possibly caused by saturation effect on the high-risk population.