foyer sous jacent

English translation: underlying focus [of disease]

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French term or phrase:foyer sous jacent
English translation:underlying focus [of disease]
Entered by: Gabrielle Leyden

10:06 Jul 1, 2014
French to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general)
French term or phrase: foyer sous jacent
This word "foyer" is causing me problems again!

Context:

Rx thorax de face
- épanchement pleural D d'abondance modérée
- un foyer sous jacent ne peut formellement être exclu

So there is pleural effusion on the right and an underlying "foyer" cannot be ruled out.

Could it just be an underlying condition/lung disease or are we talking about something more specific?

Any help would be gratefully received!
Melanie Cole
France
Local time: 05:55
underlying focus [of disease]
Explanation:
Without the whole report it's hard to tell what they are looking for, but "foyer" is definitely "focus" (of an inflammatory disease, infectious disease, cancer, etc.) in opposition to disseminated disease. I'd put "underlying focus of disease" if you can't figure out what exactly it is a focus of. HTH
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Gabrielle Leyden
Belgium
Local time: 05:55
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3underlying focus [of disease]
Gabrielle Leyden
3secondary site
B D Finch


  

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underlying focus [of disease]


Explanation:
Without the whole report it's hard to tell what they are looking for, but "foyer" is definitely "focus" (of an inflammatory disease, infectious disease, cancer, etc.) in opposition to disseminated disease. I'd put "underlying focus of disease" if you can't figure out what exactly it is a focus of. HTH

Gabrielle Leyden
Belgium
Local time: 05:55
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 130
Notes to answerer
Asker: That does help - thanks very much for the quick response!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  sktrans
2 hrs

agree  Michael Barnett: That is exactly right Gabrielle. Under that white cloud of effusion there could be something sinister.
6 hrs

agree  Michael Lotz
4 days
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secondary site


Explanation:
https://www.meducation.net/community_notes/Viremia
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In addition, in most cases pathogens nestle in professional phagocytic cells, and can even use them as a 'Trojan horse' to induce a secondary site of infection ...

http://www.mccn.nhs.uk/index.php/patients_about_cancer
"Next, cancer starts to grow in this new place. The place where it now grows is called the secondary site. The cancer is called a secondary tumour or metastasis.

If your breast cancer spreads to the lungs, for example, you have secondary breast cancer. Your secondary cancer is made from breast cancer cells, not lung cancer cells. So you still have breast cancer, even though it is now in your lungs."

B D Finch
France
Local time: 05:55
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 100
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