DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
FOREIGN BODY
Foreign body
A foreign body is any object originating outside the body. In machinery, it can mean any unwanted intruding object. Most references to foreign bodies involve propulsion through natural orifices into hollow organs. Foreign bodies can be inert or irritating. If they irritate they will cause inflammation and scarring. They can bring infection into the body or acquire infectious agents and protect them from the body's immune defenses. They can obstruct passageways either by their size or by the scarring they cause. Some can be toxic. Both children and adults experience problems caused by foreign objects getting stuck in their bodies...
FOREIGN BODY - List of case studies
- Metastatic melanoma stage IIIC
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nodes contained melanoma. Staging studies included whole body PET/CT scan and a head CT. FDG uptake by PET was noted in the left axilla ... granuloma with multinucleated giant cells of foreign body type, frequently around the inert material (stitches), and ...
- Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis (Hashimoto thyroiditis)
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by the immune system mistaking the thyroid gland for a foreign body and therefore attacking it. While this sounds ominous, the only ...
- Suspected Foreign Body
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remove, underwent multiple in order to rule out migrated foreign body from previous surgery and ruptured residual bowel laceration. There was no ...
- Metastatic well differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma in liver_2
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for the primary carcinoid. A frozen section showed foreign body type giant cell granuloma. Left lateral segmentectomy of the liver showed ...
- BRCA1, BRCA2 (breast cancer type 1,2)
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- List of case studies Suspected Foreign Body Female patient which history of fibrocystic breast surgery, ...