(n.) The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors have analyzed their observations of 113 patients and concluded that it is necessary to differentially use various kinds of osteosynthesis and bone autoplasty.
(2) Modern methods of surgical treatment were applied: extrafocal distraction-compression osteosynthesis in 45.5% of cases, bone autoplasty in 41.7%, other operations in 2.8% of cases.
(3) Simple resection, resection combined with oral and mucous membrane or conjunctival graft, derivation autoplasty, central or peripheral lamellar keratoplasty.
(4) Operative indications are outlined: simple resection in very wild cases, conjunctival autoplasty in intermediate cases, actually the most frequent, lamellar keratoplasty, in so called "malignant" pterygium or recurrent pterygium.
(5) The work presents results of free bone autoplasty in 312 patients with chronic osteomyelitis of long bones.
(6) The outcomes of ulnar nerve autoplasty are better in restoration of the artery than in application of an epineural suture.
(7) The clinical experience with surgical reconstruction of the abdominal wall in vast defects in 172 cases of big and giant postoperative hernias by means of modified autoplasty methods with the formation of the doubling with a deep superposition of aponeurotic-muscular grafts is presented.
(8) He predicts the autoplasty of the anterior segment and the transplant of the whole eye.
(9) The method of autoplasty gives the best results in substitution of bone defects after removal of the tumor in the children age.
(10) Autoplasty is indicated in cases where putting the epidural suture is impossible or difficult.
(11) 14 women recovered, including 3 who had repeated surgery (2 bladder-derived Martius grafts and one dual autoplasty).
(12) Humoral immunodeficiency marked by suppression of humoral effector functions and activation of cellular effector functions underlies inhibition of reparation processes and autodermograft lysis after autoplasty.
(13) The author has used an improved two-stage method of autoplasty in 27 patients mainly with posttraumatic bone defects of the forearm in the conditions of latent infection.
(14) The developed variants of free and non-free vertebral autoplasty are considered to be optimal in the surgical management of tuberculous spondylitis.
(15) Adequate resection of the sternum followed by autoplasty yielded good results.
(16) The other methods (myocutaneous flap of the rectus abdominis, Kiricuta's epiploic flap, neighboring autoplasties) now persist only in cases of advanced breast tumor in which the greater dorsal flap is contraindicated.
(17) The authors describe their experience in surgical treatment of fresh injuries of the interior lateral ligament in 25 patients, in 15 of whom autoplasty of the injured ligament was performed by making use of the tendon of musculus semitendinosus which was shifted without being cut off into the projection of the ligament location and sewn to the joint capsule by interrupted sutures.
(18) The augmentation labial commissuroplasty technique, as described by Préaux, Texier and Réal, after reduction of the buccal opening by lip-to-lip autoplasty is presented.
(19) Since 1961 till present time 331 plastic reconstructions of the abdominal wall were performed, in 192 of these only proper patients' tissues being employed, in 110--autoplasty with alloplasty, in 29--alloplasty with a capron mesh.
(20) A method of the operative treatment of the II stage of aseptic necrosis of the femur by subchondral autoplasty (with bone chips with crystal chymotrypsin) is described.
Graft
Definition:
(n.) A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
(n.) A branch or portion of a tree growing from such a shoot.
(n.) A portion of living tissue used in the operation of autoplasty.
(n.) To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon.
(n.) To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union.
(n.) To join (one thing) to another as if by grafting, so as to bring about a close union.
(n.) To cover, as a ring bolt, block strap, splicing, etc., with a weaving of small cord or rope-yarns.
(v. i.) To insert scions from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) These immunocytochemical studies clearly demonstrated that cells encountered within the fibrous intimal thickening in the vein graft were inevitably smooth muscle cell in origin.
(3) An effective graft-surveillance protocol needs to be applicable to all patients; practical in terms of time, effort, and cost; reliable; and able to detect, grade, and assess progression of lesions.
(4) On the basis of 180 interventions, they describe in detail the use of fibrin glue in myringo- and tympanoplasty for correct fixing of grafts.
(5) Graft life is even more prolonged with patch angioplasty at venous outflow stenoses or by adding a new segment of PTFE to bypass areas of venous stenosis.
(6) In dorsoventral (DV) reversed wings at both shoulder or flank level, the motor axons do not alter their course as they enter the graft.
(7) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
(8) In our experience DSA is a safe, specific means of following postoperative grafts and diagnosing their occlusion.
(9) Factors associated with higher incidence of rejection included loose sutures, traumatic wound dehiscence, and grafts larger than 8.5 mm.
(10) The result of this study demonstrates that both the "hat" and "inverted" type grafts are highly successful and satisfactory procedures.
(11) It is concluded that fibroblast replication is an important mechanism leading to the pathologic fibrosis seen in graft versus host disease and, by analogy, probably other types of immunologically mediated fibrosis.
(12) The in vivo approach consisted of interspecies grafting between quail and chick embryos.
(13) Attachment of the graft to the wound is similar with and without the addition of human basic fibroblast growth factor, a potent angiogenic agent, to the skin replacement before graft placement on wounds.
(14) A conduit of a diameter of 23 mm was made by hand with a glutaraldehyde preserved xenopericardial graft.
(15) The remaining grafts appeared to be incorporated securely, as determined by radiographic examination.
(16) Attempts were made to prolong the survival of the grafts by the use of cytotosine arabinoside, methylprednisolone, heparin and azathioprine.
(17) Grafts of intermediate thickness (M III) showed excellent clinical healing of the donor and the recipient site.
(18) It was recently demonstrated that MRL-lpr lymphoid cells transferred into lethally irradiated MRL- +mice unexpectedly failed to induce the early onset of lupus syndrome and massive lymphadenopathy of the donor, instead they caused a severe wasting syndrome resembling graft-vs-host (GvH) disease.
(19) Living nonrelated transplants and 0-haplotype matched transplants did well initially at 1-year graft survival but there was a decrease in graft survival in these transplant groups at 2 and 3 years.
(20) Fascia TM grafts atrophied in 35 of 43 ears (80%), and perichondrium atrophied in 8 of 20 ears (40%).