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minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·7 months ago…what’s actually making the cysts radiopaque? I wouldn’t have guessed tape worms or the damage they’re doing to soft tissue to be anywhere near that visible on x-ray
minus-squareSacralPlexus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·7 months agoWith a lot of parasites, when they die the tissue around them calcifies (just your body’s response). That’s what we are seeing on the radiograph.
minus-squareSterile_Technique@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·7 months agoThat makes a ton more sense - thank you!
minus-squareZiglin (it/they)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoI would have assumed that perhaps it was a tracer at first.
…what’s actually making the cysts radiopaque? I wouldn’t have guessed tape worms or the damage they’re doing to soft tissue to be anywhere near that visible on x-ray
With a lot of parasites, when they die the tissue around them calcifies (just your body’s response). That’s what we are seeing on the radiograph.
That makes a ton more sense - thank you!
I would have assumed that perhaps it was a tracer at first.