Anyone heard of this: Suture granuloma with foreign body giant cell reaction
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Granuloma
When you have sutures the body does recognise these as foreign and react with an immune response. Usually this is minor and resolves but can occasionally leave benign (noncancerous) growths that appear as lumps- these are the suture granulomas. They occur as the body tries to wall off what it perceives as being foreign. The giant cells are a type of immune cell. If that is what you have it is not something to be concerned about with regard to it growing or being cancerous (no atypia means cells appear normal and not cancerous).
NEver had it myself though.
Hope this is helpful
steve0 -
Thanks for responding,steved said:Granuloma
When you have sutures the body does recognise these as foreign and react with an immune response. Usually this is minor and resolves but can occasionally leave benign (noncancerous) growths that appear as lumps- these are the suture granulomas. They occur as the body tries to wall off what it perceives as being foreign. The giant cells are a type of immune cell. If that is what you have it is not something to be concerned about with regard to it growing or being cancerous (no atypia means cells appear normal and not cancerous).
NEver had it myself though.
Hope this is helpful
steve
Thanks for responding, learning so much about the body now then I ever did in school! Of course wasn't personally affected then - thx again.0 -
Suture Granuloma
Hi Ruffy7
I had a suture granuloma in my lower pelvic area located directly under the edge of my incision from a rectal resection. It felt to be 1in. by 3in. in size. Granulomas form when the immune system attempts to wall off a substance, such as sutures, that it perceives as foreign because it is unable to eliminate it. Granulomas usually resolve on there own. My experience was a little different. The edge of my incision reopened ~ 9 weeks after surgery. The surgeon went in to see what he could find. I was for sure he was going to pull out some gauze because of its size. He didn’t find anything and assured me that it wasn’t gauze. The incision closed up and shortly thereafter reopened. I decided to go in and have a look myself. I pulled out several suture fragments over ~ a 2week period with the last being a big ol’ knot. The granuloma shortly disappeared and I haven’t had a problem since.
Karen0
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