the pathological softening of an organ or tissue, such as bone
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Areas of malacia contained neutrophils and foamy microglia and macrophages.
Dennis Tappe, Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit, Jessica Rauch, Petra Allartz, Christiane Herden 2019, 'Immunopathology of Fatal Human Variegated Squirrel Bornavirus 1 Encephalitis, Germany,2011–2013', Emerging Infectious Diseaseshttps://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/6/18-1082_article. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Benign disorders that necessitated stent placement included postintubation tracheal stenosis, airway malacia, and others.
Inderpaul Singh Sehgal, Sahajal Dhooria, Karan Madan, Vallandramam Pattabhiraman,Ravindra Mehta, Rajiv Goyal, Jayachandra Akkaraju, Ritesh Agarwal 2017, 'Placement of tracheobronchial silicone Y-stents: Multicenter experience and systematicreview of the literature', Lung Indiahttp://www.lungindia.com/article.asp?issn=0970-2113;year=2017;volume=34;issue=4;spage=311;epage=317;aulast=Sehgal. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
However, this approach was ineffective for treating patients with airway collapse or malacia.
Xiao-Jian Qiu, Jie Zhang, Ting Wang, Ying-Hua Pei, Min Xu 2015, 'Nonstent Combination Interventional Therapy for Treatment of Benign Cicatricial AirwayStenosis', Chinese Medical Journalhttp://www.cmj.org/article.asp?issn=0366-6999;year=2015;volume=128;issue=16;spage=2154;epage=2161;aulast=Qiu. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
There was also foci of malacia with presence of reactive astrocytes with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and inflammatory cells.
Joanna Vargas Zillig Echenique, Pablo Estima-Silva, Daniela Brayer Pereira, LucasSantos Marques, Luiza Soares Ribeiro, Ana Lucia Schild 2019, 'Leukoencephalomalacia in horses associated with immature corn consumption', Ciência Ruralhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782019000300551&lng=en&tlng=en. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In some cases mild malacia was also observed in the rostral colliculi, pons, medulla, cerebellum and cervical spinal cord.
Fabiana Elias, Ana Lucia Schild, Franklin Riet-Correa 2004, 'Meningoencefalite e encefalomalacia por Herpesvírus bovino-5: distribuição das lesõesno sistema nervoso central de bovinos naturalmente infectados Bovine herpesvirus type-5meningoencephalitis and malacia: histological lesions distribution in the centralnervous system of naturally infected cattle', Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileirahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-736X2004000300003. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Other complications included pneumonia, arrhythmia, stenosis at the anastomosis level, residual stenosis, granuloma formation and malacia.
Ricardo Mingarini Terra, Helio Minamoto, Lívia Caroline Barbosa Mariano, Angelo Fernandez,José Pinhata Otoch, Fabio Biscegli Jatene 2009, 'Tratamento cirúrgico das estenoses traqueais congênitas Surgical treatment of congenitaltracheal stenoses', Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1806-37132009000600004. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The cerebrum showed malacia and edema.
Salah H. Afifi, Reham El-Kashef, A. Sh. Seddek, Diefy A. Salem 2016, 'Light and transmission electron microscopical changes associated with Leiurus quinqestriatusvenom in rabbits', Macedonian Veterinary Reviewhttp://www.macvetrev.mk/2016-1/macvetrev-2016-0067.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)