Silicon sponge: ultrastructural examinations in chronic infection
Hanselmayer, H.; Roll, P.; Glawogger, F.
Klinische Monatsblatter für Augenheilkunde 169(6): 737-742
1976
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2165 PMID: 1018462 Document Number: 96858
Ultrastructural examinations of a silastic sponge implant (which was removed with the clinical diagnosis rejection against the silicon material) revealed massive infiltration of so called apothogenic bacteria and macrophages. The results of this examination support the idea that in most of the cases with symptoms of inflammation, there is not a rejection against the sponge material itself but acute or chronic bacterial infection. In the bradytrophic area of the sponge socalled apathogenic bacteria may grow and lead to considerable reactions, because antibodies are decreased.