(1) The form of the illness in young children was acute gastroenteritis and in older children "appendicular syndrome".
(2) It is postulated that a worm escaped through the appendicular tip, causing transient peritonitis followed by adhesions and granulomatas in the peritoneal cavity.
(3) A second combination of the seven sites indicated that the contrast between axial and appendicular regional densities accounted for another 10% of the variation among subjects.
(4) On ultrasound scan of the abdomen, he was found to have an appendicular mass.
(5) The appendicular skeleton (53%), the humerus (13%), and the femur (23%) were most frequently affected.
(6) Our data suggest that TSH suppressive L-thyroxine treatment has a detrimental effect on the appendicular skeleton in post-menopausal women.
(7) In such cases, it provides a simple and safe solution, with reduced risk of sepsis, to the problem of appendicular ligature.
(8) The initial intervention concerned mainly gynecological affections or pathologies of appendicular type.
(9) To quantify the appendicular and axial bone mineral with good accuracy and precision, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA), DCS-600 (Aloka) for the radius, mainly composed of cortical bone, and QDR-1000 (Hologic) for the lumbar vertebrae, mainly composed of trabecular bone, was used.
(10) MRI is capable of demonstrating superb anatomic detail of the appendicular skeleton and articulations.
(11) Present in the mandibular symphysis of either the human or cat fetuses, chondroid tissue has also been observed in the other parts of the mandible, in the sutural areas of the skull and in all the bones of both axial and appendicular skeleton.
(12) Since acromegaly is associated with a high risk for the development of colorectal tumors, it could also have elicited a similar response in the intestinal-type ovarian tumor and the appendicular neoplasm found in this patient.
(13) Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging was performed in 17 patients, 11-84 years of age, referred for evaluation of possible osteomyelitis involving the appendicular skeleton.
(14) Single-photon absorptiometry carried out on forearm bones informs on the mineral density of the compact bone of the appendicular skeleton.
(15) From 245 examined children with diffuse appendicular peritonitis hyperbaric oxygenation was used in 127 children in the complex treatment during the postoperative period.
(16) Type II collagen gene transcripts were found in all the chondrogenic tissues of the axial and appendicular skeleton until the onset of endochondral ossification.
(17) Based upon an analysis of long-term results of treatment of 99 patients after appendicular infiltrate and abscess the authors made a conclusion that young and middle-aged patients with this disease have indications for operation in the early period--within 2-3 weeks after resolution of the infiltrate.
(18) Bone mass and appendicular bone loss rates were examined in a cohort of Japanese-American men.
(19) In summary, calcium-placebo and calcium-25-OHD treatment were both associated with stable appendicular bone mineral content in women with senile osteopenia.
(20) This technique is indicated in cases of necrosis of the appendix extending to the lower end of the caecum and in patients with very wide caeco-appendicular junction.
Appendix
Definition:
(n.) Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
(n.) Any literary matter added to a book, but not necessarily essential to its completeness, and thus distinguished from supplement, which is intended to supply deficiencies and correct inaccuracies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Life events were collected (using the Bedford College method) in 78 women patients aged 15-40 yr, of whom 39 were admitted for the removal of an appendix which proved to be normal at operation and in whom no organic cause for their pain was found, and a matched group of 39 parasuicide patients.
(2) The age distribution for Caulobacter cells in an exponential population has been calculated (Appendix by Robert Tax) and used to analyze some of the results.
(3) As the differential diagnosis between Crohn's disease and appendicitis is difficult and the surgical approach to the appendix in the presence of Crohn's disease is controversial, we illuminate some practical points in the preoperative evaluation of these patients and deal with the question of whether appendectomy should be performed in these patients.
(4) Pathologic examination revealed no endometriosis, but examination of the distal appendix showed structural disorganization of its entire wall, with lack of proper differentiation of its normal coats and irregular overgrowth of fibroadipose, fibromuscular, and neural elements.
(5) The appendix or appendix stump was visualised on 53% of the barium examinations.
(6) This study reports eight patients who underwent appendicectomy between 1978 and 1986 for apparently isolated, previously undiagnosed Crohn's disease of the appendix.
(7) The appendix of the laryngeal ventricle courses superiorly between the laryngeal vestibule and the thyroid cartilage which differentiates this normal structure from ulcerations and fistulous tracts of laryngeal tumors.
(8) We report on a 47-year-old man with a granular cell tumour of the appendix, discovered incidentally during surgery for a rectal adenocarcinoma that had been irradiated preoperatively.
(9) A mathematical model for Mab binding and inactivation of nuclease, taking into account multiple binding events for one or two Mabs interacting with nuclease, was used to derive affinities and maximum reductions of the enzymatic rate (details on the derivation of the equations and on the hypotheses of the model are given in an appendix).
(10) All patients with partial filling of the appendix had appendicitis.
(11) In another patient, the diagnosis of polyarteritis nodosa was established after a retrospective identification of one additional site of arteritis in the appendix removed 5 years prior to cholecystectomy.
(12) The relationships between thermodynamic quantities in a quaternary system of electrolytes are discussed in Appendix 2.
(13) All T1's were determined within 30-60 min of removal of the appendix at operation.
(14) It corresponds well with the working of the normal human appendix as regards tissue type and characteristics.
(15) Two of the six cases showed pseudoinvasion of the appendix and in a further case the appendix had perforated with extrusion of a misplaced neoplasm.
(16) The arterial blood supply, position, and length of the appendix were studied 103 Zambian cadavers.
(17) Pertinent data regarding the fate and transport of PCNB in air could not be located in the available literature as cited in the Appendix.
(18) The final pathologic report was a cystadenocarcinoma of the appendix.
(19) Thus it is important to distinguish between cystic neoplasms (cystadenomas) and non-neoplastic retention cysts of the appendix.
(20) A subpopulation of appendix sIg-negative, RTLA-negative cells has a relatively high concentration of RT2.