Doctors find “gold mine” in woman’s knees

Foreign invaders

He also warned that embedded needles can complicate X-ray readings. “The needles may obscure some of the anatomy,” Guermazi said in 2013.

The body also doesn’t always take kindly to foreign invaders, and the reaction can fall under foreign body reaction or chronic inflammatory response.

“The human body wants to get rid of the foreign object,” Guermazi explained. “It starts with some mechanism of defense, for example inflammation and forming [fibrous tissue] around the object.”

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