Tissue engineering chamber technique can be used to generate engineered adipose tissue, showing the potential for the reconstruction of soft tissue defects. However, the consequent foreign body reaction induced by the exogenous chamber implantation causes thick capsule formation on the surface of the adipose flap following capsule contracture, which may limit the internal tissue expansion. The ...

A case of anterior internal ophthalmomyiasis is described. A 27-year-old female from Northern Brazil presenting with anterior uveitis and vitritis had a fly larva surgically removed from the anterior chamber of the left eye. The species was Cochliomyia hominivorax. The larva was covered by macrophages and foreign body giant cells characterizing a foreign body granulomatous reaction.

conclusions ultrasound is recommended as the first choice when fb is located within the superficial soft tissues with no bone around it. in case of penetration of fb into deeper tissues or beneath bone, ct or cbct are recommended. otherwise, considering lower dose, cbct is preferred over ct. we can use mri if the fb is not ferromagnetic. however, ct is the first choice in emergency situations b...

224 Ann Dermatol Received August 29, 2013, Revised June 19, 2014, Accepted for publication June 23, 2014 Corresponding author: Jong Rok Lee, Department of Dermatology, Gachon University Gil Medical Center, 21 Namdong-daero 774beongil, Namdong-gu, Incheon 405-760, Korea. Tel: 82-32-460-3337, Fax: 82-32-460-2374, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under t...

Surgical suture material is usually inert and nontoxic and causes minimal inflammation of tissue. However, foreign body reactions to various suture types can lead to granuloma, abscess, or even sinus formation. We report an elderly female who was incidentally detected to have a mass protruding from the incision site which was confirmed histopathologically a chronic granulomatous reaction to non...

Membranous fat necrosis (MFN) in the gallbladder is rare. We found marked MFN as the cause of peculiar foreign body reaction in a Japanese woman in her late seventies, with severe chronic cholecystitis. Histopathological examination of the extirpated gallbladder revealed severe grade chronic cholecystitis accompanied by many multinucleated giant cells and phagocytizing yellowish wavy membranous...

Sir,—The hypothesis of wear particles causing foreign-body reaction, periprosthetic osteolysis and eventually prosthetic loosening was already put forward in the 1970s (Brinkmann and Heilmann 1974, Willert et al. 1974). The term cement disease was coined in the 1980s (Jones and Hungerford 1987), generalized to particle disease in the 1990s (Harris 1994), and wear particles are still widely cons...

Melanoma of the ear canal is extremely rare; due to its hidden area, most would present late in their history. We present the first case reported, of a black pigment foreign body mimicking a melanoma in the external auditory canal. A 14 year old Chinese male presented with right sided otalgia and itch. Otoscopic examination revealed an irregular black naevus in the right auditory canal. An intr...

FOREIGN bodies lodged in the eye following perforating injuries are serious ophthalmic emergencies. The retention of a foreign particle within the eye-ball may result in infection, sympathetic ophthalmitis, local irritative and chemical reaction apart from the mechanical damage caused at the time of the accident. The visual prognosis is extremely variable because of so many factors such as exte...

Despite new equipment, such as the Hopkins rod-lens telescopes and optical forceps, foreign bodies in the airway continue to present a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the endoscopist. Airway foreign bodies are more common in children than adults and frequently, the patient may have aspirated more than one foreign body or the original foreign body fragments into pieces. Vegetable matter ...