Here\'s some more pics. My pathologist said you would need a physical chemist to determine if the sizes are equal or not...since it is 3D and you\'d need it isolated from the tissue. You see a regular h & e stain here... which pathologists use, not chemists.
The best way to make sense of this is to try to find histopathology of artecoll vs. artefill...and compare them to each other and to this.
The other guy who got linnea safe when I did had no issues.
My
Dermatologist recently said to me that he thinks I had too much put in, and he\'s had women who get artefill added over and over, and then they start getting lumps. But, I haven\'t seen that on this board at all. My theory is that some kind of network of collagen developed with the existing metacrill implant, and the linnea safe implant 6 months later just couldn\'t stick to it or stay under it. I literally have one normal metacrill implant on my buck\'s fascia and then a bunch of lumps at my injection sites bound to my
Dartos fascia...it\'s like the product got squeezed out and formed nodules (rather quickly) at the injection sites - which were still ther 4.5 months later, full size.
I think irregular particule size is more of a trigger for inflammation and granulomas than for nodules...from what I recall.
You wouldn\'t want to see this in your slides (this is Dermalive):
These photos are from the two nodules shown here. They were very firm bundles of collagen, similar to the texture of chewed gum that has been left out. They did not respond to injections (you can see the needle track in one of them actually - but that\'s the best it did...leave a track).
Note that the top one is the one that caused all the problems. The bottom one, though larger, was isolated and the wound closed immediately. The top one created a 2 month mess.
