What's the difference between astroscopy and gastroscopy?
Astroscopy
Definition:
(n.) Observation of the stars.
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Gastroscopy
Definition:
(n.) Examination of the abdomen or stomach, as with the gastroscope.
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(1) In a retrospective study of 610 patients the role of routine gastroscopy prior to cholecystectomy was investigated.
(2) The emptiness of the stomach was verified by gastroscopy.
(3) Conventional fiberoptic gastroscopy could be performed simultaneously with sonoendoscopic evaluation of the esophagus and gastric, extraesophageal, and extragastric areas.
(4) It can cause massive bleeding and is often missed at initial gastroscopy.
(5) Antral biopsies were obtained to detect Campylobacter pylori infection in 382 patients referred for gastroscopy.
(6) These states are not always going parallel with the macroscopic pictures revealed by gastroscopy, but there are some obvious congruences.
(7) Patients were submitted to gastroscopy at the start and end of treatment; only patients who presented a normal baseline gastroscopy were admitted to the trial.
(8) The findings from gastroscopy, upper gastrointestinal series and computed tomography were evaluated for their ability to define the anatomic site of the lesion, proximal and distal extent of gastric involvement, presence of a mass or ulceration and the sensitivity of diagnosis.
(9) Gastroscopy did not appear to increase plasma enzyme concentrations in six patients who were given intravenous premedication.
(10) In a series of five placebo-controlled double-blind studies in situations of stress-induced anxiety (gastroscopy, minor surgery, cardiac catheterization), the therapeutic efficacy of alpidem was evident in 53% of the patients and significantly (P less than 0.001) superior to that of placebo (30%).
(11) In order to exemplify the use of effect measures and confidence intervals in epidemiology, it is assumed that a group of patients treated with antiflogistic drugs were compared by repeated gastroscopy with a control group.
(12) First gastroscopy was done and biopsies were taken.
(13) 69% of the women and 48% of the men had previously experienced gastroscopy or colonoscopy.
(14) An esophago-gastroscopy showed a second degree burn of both esophagus and stomach.
(15) We recently treated a 19-year-old man in the ED and in the departments of surgery and medicine who required a gastrotomy to remove a large amount of elemental iron inaccessible to removal by emesis, lavage, or gastroscopy.
(16) The distribution over time of biopsy specimens in this case series showed an increased use of gastroscopy for diagnosis in the population under study.
(17) Following gastroscopy, gastric juice was collected, and total gastric acidity was measured.
(18) At the start, 6 weeks following the start 6 and 12 months after the finishing of the treatment gastroscopy was performed.
(19) Small-intestinal biopsy specimens were examined for deposits of amyloid, and the presence of gastric retention was evaluated by gastroscopy.
(20) At the examination seven complications were registered in the gastroscopy record.