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Brr
See sentence please, ortho question inside.
Sat Feb 28, 2004 13:13

He has a little bit of redness around the wounds, perhaps a little bit of fluid accumulation.

Pathology from his surgery shows "rice" bodies and negative laboratory cultures.

(This patient recently had surgery for swelling and drainage around his original incision site.)

Thank you!

mt
see inside from Dorland's
Sat Feb 28, 2004 13:16

rice bodies, small bodies resembling grains of rice which form in the tendons of joints and in the fluid of hygroma; called also oryzoid b's and corpora oryzoidea

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Sat Feb 28, 2004 13:36

mt
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Sat Feb 28, 2004 13:40