siderosis

[‚sid·ə′rō·səs]

(medicine)

Pneumoconiosis due to prolonged inhalation of dust containing iron salt. Also known as arc-welder's disease.

(pathology)

The presence or concentration of stainable iron pigment in a tissue or organ.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Siderosis

in man, pneumoconiosis caused by the deposition of dust particles containing iron in the lungs.

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Cerebral microbleeds and cortical superficial siderosis in patients presenting with minor cerebrovascular events.

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Rhys Holmes was diagnosed with superfical siderosis, a very rare condition of the central nervous system resulting from chronic iron deposition

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In patients with hemochromatosis and diabetes who are presumed or known to have pancreatic siderosis, phlebotomy therapy is likely to improve insulin secretion only when hemochromatosis diagnosis and iron depletion are early [15, 153, 154].

Diabetes in HFE Hemochromatosis

Gastric glands and giant cells displayed siderosis ((c) Prussian Blue, x10).

Cyanoacrylate Associated Foreign Body Granulomatous Gastritis: A Report of Three Cases

Besides collateral damage the eye with IOFB have increased risk of infection and may suffer from specific reaction due to chemical nature of IOFB like siderosis and chalcosis.

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Siderosis in the Bantu: A comparison of incidence in males and females.

Carcinogenic nitrosamines in traditional beer as the cause of oesophageal squamous cell carcinoma in black South Africans

(28) In addition, the degree of steatosis and siderosis were determined by histological examination of the liver.

The clinical effectiveness of pegylated interferon and ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in HIV-infected patients in Brazil: a multicentric study

Beta-globin mutations are associated with parenchymal siderosis and fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.

Normal black kidney

It has been also proposed that subjects with lesser degrees of hepatic siderosis at diagnosis are unlikely to develop hypogonadism [47].

Beta-thalassemia major and female fertility: the role of iron and iron-induced oxidative stress

However, in another study, LCA manifested on MRI as T1-hypointense and T2-hyperintense lesions, an appearance related to insignificant siderosis, seen in less than 50% of LCA cases.

Littoral cell angioma: review of the literature and case report