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Jun 26, 2018 15:45
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French term

de contact

French to English Medical Medical (general)
I have this sentence from a chest CT in a patient with pneumonia and pneumomediastinum:
"Il y a aussi un thrombus de la partie latérale droite de l'aorte de contact."

The "de contact" part confuses me a bit; surely it refers more to the thrombus than the aorta?

I don't really know....any idea about what is meant and how it would be translated?
Proposed translations (English)
3 the thrombus is in contact with/comes into contact with/ is touching

Discussion

Peter Bajorek (asker) Jul 3, 2018:
Typo!! I worked out that it was a typo: supposed to read "aorte descendante".
Later on in the document they referred to the CT findings, and mentioned the descending aorta...and the penny dropped :-)
Drmanu49 Jun 26, 2018:
A thrombus by definition is in contact with the vessel wall otherwise it would be an embolus. So the French sentence makes no sense, especially without punctuation. Unless it is not de contact but en contact. And in that case it is the aorta which is in contact with something, maybe the thoracic aorta?

Proposed translations

57 mins

the thrombus is in contact with/comes into contact with/ is touching

after a lot of reading .....

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-06-26 16:47:27 GMT)
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i.e. it is not floating about

so,

non-floating/adherent??

https://www.jvascsurg.org/article/0741-5214(90)90329-9/fullt...
by ED Baldridge - ‎1990 - ‎Cited by 68 - ‎Related articles
Usually the embolus occurred before diagnosis of free-floating thrombus. Most free-floating thrombi ... Clot retraction, Retracted***, Adherent***. Clot distention ...

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Note added at 1 hr (2018-06-26 16:48:50 GMT)
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Yes, perhaps it is "adherent"

https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=0781767067
Hugh A. McAllister, ‎James T. Willerson - 2007 - ‎Medical
A. Resected portion of aorta with an adherent, pedunculated, sterile fibrin thrombus. B. Giant cell granulomas of inner media aorta Vienna, Austria. - (Circulation.
Peer comment(s):
neutral Drmanu49 : A thrombus by definition is non moving and attached to a vessel wall.
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