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Pathological Mineralizations: Calcifications and Si‐Bearing Particles in Soft Tissues and Their Eventual Relationship to Different Prostheses
Author(s) -
Leyva Ana Gabriela,
Maguid Sandra Liliana,
Rodriguez de Benyacar Maria Angelica,
Lazaro Maria Alicia,
Cocco Jose Maldonado,
Citera Gustavo
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
artificial organs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.684
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1525-1594
pISSN - 0160-564X
DOI - 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2000.06529.x
Subject(s) - calcification , scanning electron microscope , bearing (navigation) , materials science , soft tissue , dystrophic calcification , pathological , pathology , silicone , chemistry , biomedical engineering , anatomy , medicine , composite material , cartography , geography
Polarizing microscopy (PM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x‐ray dispersive analysis (EDAX), x‐ray diffraction (XRD), and infrared spectrometry (IR) were used to study the following pathological mineralizations: calcifications and silicon(Si)‐bearing mineralizations in cerebral tissue from an epileptic child; traces of Si‐bearing particles in periprosthesic mammarian tissue, and calcifications in capsular mammarian tissue from a patient with a silicone gel mammarian implant, and 2 calcium‐bearing compounds, a typical apatitic calcification, and a nonphosphorous‐bearing calcification in arterial tissues. In this tissue we also found Si‐bearing particles due to an artifact from glassware.