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initial lesion. See primary lesion. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| This initial lesion develops 3-4 weeks after infection and heals spontaneously after 1 week. On individual tissue sections these foci are identified as isolated lesions, suggesting that discrete, localized episodes of acute lung injury with an abnormal repair response may account for the initial lesion, and that recurrent episodes may account for the progression of IPF (2). Curiously, he does not name it, for it has already been named in the epigraph he has chosen for his poem, an excerpt from an unidentified "medical textbook": "The initial lesion of syphilis may result over the years in a gradual weakening and dilatation (aneurysm) of the aorta. |
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