Silicone elastomer microshards in fluid from a painful metatarsophalangeal implant site. A case report.
Acta Cytol
; 39(3): 586-8, 1995.
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| ID: mdl-7762357
ABSTRACT
Histopathologic studies have demonstrated microshards from silicone elastomer metatarsophalangeal joint implants in adjacent tissues in a setting of chronic inflammation and in inguinal lymph nodes. Cytologic smears of synovial fluid from symptomatic implanted joints should show these refractile, nonpolarizing microshards in the reactive inflammatory context. Nonspecific enzymatic inflammatory activity contributes to further destabilization of the implants, eventuating in symptoms and signs requiring prosthesis removal. Cytopathologic examination of aspirated fluid from the vicinity of a symptomatic implanted joint demonstrates foreign body reaction to silicone elastomer, predicting a need for intervention before the local damage is severe and disabling.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Elastômeros de Silicone
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Prótese Articular
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Articulação Metatarsofalângica
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acta Cytol
Ano de publicação:
1995
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos