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Silicone medical products may be associated with various complications. Recent attention has focused particularly on health risks associated with silicone breast implants. The authors present the clinical and histopathological findings in a 71-year-old woman who had previously undergone breast
Although the pathogenesis of sperm granulomas is complicated, the leakage of spermatozoa into extraluminal tissues is regarded as a crucial event. It has been previously shown that pubertal rats injected with L-cysteine develop interstitial edema followed by sperm granulomas in the epididymis. In
We describe the first detailed histological description of an excised calcified Taenia solium granuloma from a patient who developed recurrent seizures associated with perilesional edema surrounding a calcified cysticercus (PEC). The capsule, around a degenerated cysticercus, contained marked
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Neurocysticercosis, an infection with the larval form of the tapeworm, Taeniasolium, is the cause of 29% of epilepsy in endemic regions. Epilepsy in this population is mostly associated with calcified granulomas; at the time of seizure recurrence 50% of those with calcifications
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The transient development of perilesional edema (PE) around ≥1 calcification (defined as 1 episode) occurs in about 50% of the patients with recurrent seizures in calcified neurocysticercosis (NCC). We determined the long-term clinical and radiological course of persons undergoing PE
A petrous apex cholesterol granuloma (PACG) is the most common lesion of the petrous apex mass. Affected patients present with various symptoms such as hearing loss, vertigo, headache, tinnitus, facial spasms, and diplopia. We report the case of a 32-yr-old man with a PACG, who was first