What's the difference between molluscum and nodule?
Molluscum
Definition:
(n.) A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study of 77 cases of molluscum contagiosum implicates folliclular neogenesis as a primary histogenetic determinant.
(2) We analyzed data on molluscum contagiosum infection in the United States from two sources: the National Disease and Therapeutic Index Survey of private patients, collected during 1966-1983; and two sexually transmitted disease clinics, collected during 1977-1981.
(3) Widespread molluscum contagiosum is being seen with increasing frequency in patients who have been exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus, and examination of biopsy specimens to rule out atypical fungal infection is mandatory.
(4) A 43-year-old homosexual man with the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) developed cutaneous molluscum contagiosum-like lesions on face, ears, neck, hands and feet.
(5) One case of molluscum contagiosum of the lid, which has been followed by follicular conjunctivitis and superficial punctate keratitis, has enabled us to compare the ultrastructure of the skin tumor and of the conjunctival lesion.
(6) In a comparative study, there was a higher incidence of anticellular IgM antibodies to normal human epidermis and fibrillar anticellular IgM antibodies in molluscum contagiosum than in warts of psoriasis.
(7) The antibody can be used with standard immunohistochemical methods to identify molluscum contagiosuminfection in inflamed and distorted tissue specimens.
(8) So it is necessary to perform skin biopsy in HIV seropositive patients with skin lesions resembling molluscum contagiosum, to diagnose mycotic infections, and especially cryptococcosis.
(9) Two patients with AIDS presented with eyelid molluscum contagiosum.
(10) This functional defect may impair host defense and account for the chronic molluscum contagiosum infection present in this patient.
(11) A retrospective casenote review was performed on patients attending a department of genitourinary medicine (GUM) who had been diagnosed as having molluscum.
(12) We report on the hardly known development of molluscum contagiosum in a cystically dilated follicular infundibulum.
(13) Restriction endonuclease analysis of molluscum contagiosum virus DNA revealed two subtypes.
(14) A hemophiliac man who tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus presented with facial lesions resembling molluscum contagiosum as the initial manifestation of systemic cryptococcal infection.
(15) Seven human immunodeficiency virus-(HIV) positive patients with biopsy proved extensive facial molluscum contagiosum were treated with trichloroacetic acid peels.
(16) The genomes (188 kbp) of the prototype Molluscum contagiosum virus type 1 (MCV-1) and a variant strain (MCV-1v) were characterized by construction of the physical maps of the viral DNA for the restriction enzymes BamHI, ClaI, EcoRI, and HindIII using a defined gene library harboring the DNA sequences of the MCV-1 genome and by DNA-DNA hybridizations.
(17) In view of these findings it is advisable that adults with perigenital molluscum contagiosum be screened for other STD and that their sexual partners be contact-traced.
(18) Molluscum contagiosum spread by sexual contact may be mistaken for other venereal diseases.
(19) Molluscum contagiosum in a venereal distribution (MCV) was identified as an incidental finding in 14 patients in a women's outpatient clinic at a general hospital.
(20) Three in situ hybridization protocols have been modified and used to comparatively examine formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue for the presence of molluscum contagiosum virus (MCV) DNA.
Nodule
Definition:
(n.) A rounded mass or irregular shape; a little knot or lump.
Example Sentences:
(1) This particular variant of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is characterized by the presence of subcutaneous rheumatoid nodules, scanty or absent systemic manifestations and a clinically benign course.
(2) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(3) An umbilical nodule may be an early or late sign of metastasis from an internal location.
(4) Thus, multiparae had very thick border zones composed predominantly of large nodules and, additionally, of vacuolated cells and fibrous tissue.
(5) In two cases that showed punctate or linear low density structures adjacent to the distal side of the tumor nodules to the porta hepatis, a daughter nodule was detected by CT at 6.5 and 9.2 months, respectively, after the appearance of the low density structures.
(6) Based on their localisation and histology these are classified into three types (Epstein's pearls, Bohn's nodules, Dental lamina cysts).
(7) No infection threads were found to penetrate either root hairs or the nodule cells.
(8) Two-thirds of the respiratory infections occurred in the first 3 postoperative months and were generally localized processes (focal pneumonitis, nodule(s), abscess, or empyema).
(9) Differential degeneration of the lateral microvessels may account for increases in collagen nodule growth and ultimate size.
(10) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(11) Significantly higher levels of c-myc gene expression were observed in tissues of HCC of the DEN group and in neoplastic nodules of the DEN-DES groups than in the DES and DEN-C group.
(12) On siratro, CIAT899 induced nodules that were ineffective in acetylene reduction, whereas the EPS-deficient mutants induced effective nodules.
(13) Yellow lupin nodule specific sequences were selected by screening of cDNA library prepared from lupin nodule poly(A)+RNA.
(14) These were not seen after the 35th day, however an occasional lymph nodule persisted in the intersitium.
(15) However, there is no reported study which compares the long-term outcome of patients with vocal cord nodules treated surgically with those treated with a combination of surgery and speech therapy, and those treated only with speech therapy.
(16) Fine needle aspiration of the thyroid is suggested as an initial diagnostic procedure in the evaluation of thyroid nodules.
(17) Here a diaphragm support breath pattern was used in voice therapy for patients with vocal nodules, recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis, and incomplete glottal closure.
(18) The development of the nodules did not seem to affect the hosts.
(19) Neoplastic nodules showed a variable pattern of enzyme activities.
(20) Negative slit smears for AFB from the nodules repeatedly and the histology of one on the skin nodules clinched the diagnosis of multicentric reticulohistiocytosis.