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Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

cabochon

English translation:

phlebolith

Added to glossary by liz askew
Aug 18, 2011 15:39
13 yrs ago
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French term

cabochon

French to English Medical Medical (general) Doppler ultrasound of lower extremities
This is a line from a table giving the results of the ultrasound, under the left lower extremity
"cabochon calcifié avec sténose"
Proposed translations (English)
3 +1 round structure
Change log

Aug 25, 2011 14:17: liz askew changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/611882">Joan Berglund's</a> old entry - "cabochon"" to ""phlebolith""

Discussion

Joan Berglund (asker) Aug 18, 2011:
Phelobolith sounds plausible. I never came across this before either, I will do a little research and try to confirm.
Timothy Rake Aug 18, 2011:
rounded/dome vs. round "Cabochon" implies rather a "dome" or "rounded (at the top)" structure as opposed to simply a "round" structure, n'est-ce pas?
SJLD Aug 18, 2011:
Sounds like an old calcified thrombus, in the shape of...
Joan Berglund (asker) Aug 18, 2011:
This is part of a protocol for a PE and DVT treatment, so normally they are looking for DVTs; there shouldn't be any foreign object. They must mean a harder than usual blockage?
Maureen Wilkins (X) Aug 18, 2011:
Agree with you liz - rather strange for the lower leg, but "stenose" suggests that it is blocking something.
liz askew Aug 18, 2011:
How can you have a stone in the lower leg though?
Maureen Wilkins (X) Aug 18, 2011:
stone? could this be something like a (kidney) stone? Larousse gives "pierre fine, arrondie et polie"
Jean-Louis S. Aug 18, 2011:
Foreign object Could it be a nail?

Proposed translations

+1
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round structure

for want of a better description

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:WOgbUI_...

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Deep venous thrombosis and inferior vena cava malformation
www.springerlink.com/index/W4X85529246792H4.pdf - Block all www.springerlink.com results
by B Bollinger - 1995 - Cited by 1 - Related articles
CT and ultrasonography showed thrombosis of the left femoral and iliac veins. ... biopsies from the round structures were taken, but they ...

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Phlebolith Symptoms | eHow.com
www.ehow.com › Healthcare - Cached
Patients with a phlebolith may develop thrombosis, which is the ... A phlebolith is a small, rounded calcification in a vein usually resulting from an old blood clot (thrombus). They are very common in the veins of the lower part of . ...

good luck!

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how about

phlebolith

??

never come across this before:)

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Phlebolith - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlebolith - Cached
A phlebolith is a small local, usually rounded, calcification within a vein. These are very common in the veins of the lower part of the pelvis, ...
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What is a Pelvic Phlebolith? | eHow.com
www.ehow.com › Healthcare - Cached
What is a Pelvic Phlebolith?. Phleboliths are masses, deposits or growths which develop in the wall of a vein and are composed of calcium or lime.

I may have found "phlebolith" out of pure serendipity.

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yes
it is a rounded structure

I now discover from the last couple of references!

It takes a while!

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Joan

If you have a spare 15 minutes (!!) this is an interesting article

http://radiographics.rsna.org/content/21/6/1519.full

Good luck!
Peer comment(s):
agree piazza d
2 hrs
Thank you!
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