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Pathological mineralizations: calcifications and Si-bearing particles in soft tissues and their eventual relationship
A G Leyva1, S L Maguid, M A Rodriguez de Benyacar
1Comision Nacional de Energia Atomica, and Rheumatology Section, Instituto de Rehabilitacion Psicofisica de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract:
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.