(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.
Lesion
Definition:
(n.) A hurt; an injury.
(n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.
(n.) Any morbid change in the exercise of functions or the texture of organs.
Example Sentences:
(1) The telencephalic proliferative response has been studied in adult newts after lesion on the central nervous system.
(2) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(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) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(5) Weddellite calcification was associated with benign lesions in 16 cases, but incidental atypical lobular hyperplasia and lobular carcinoma in situ were present, each in one case.
(6) One must be suspicious of any gingival lesion, particulary if there is a sudden onset of bleeding or hyperplasia.
(7) The cross sectional area of the aortic lumen was gradually decreased while the length of the stenotic lesion gradually increased by using strips with different width.
(8) A total of 555 caries lesions were registered on proximal surfaces, 49.1% being primary lesions in the enamel, 21.4% primary lesions into the dentin and 29.5% secondary lesions.
(9) Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy are frequently accompanied by deteriorated renal functions and by pathological lesions in the glomeruli.
(10) Pleural or subpleural lesions were found in all cases.
(11) These findings suggest that clonidine transdermal disks lower blood pressure in hypertensive patients, but produce local skin lesions and general side effects.
(12) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(13) The lesion (10.6 X 9.8 mm) was a well-defined ellipsoid granuloma due to a foreign body with a central zone of necrosis surrounded entirely by a fibrous wall.
(14) Macroscopic lesions included mild congestion of the gastric mucosa and focal consolidation of the lung.
(15) Periosteal chondroma is an uncommon benign cartilagenous lesion, and its importance lies primarily in its characteristic radiographic and pathologic appearance which should be of assistance in the differential diagnosis of eccentric lesions of bones.
(16) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
(17) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(18) In the upper limb and facial forms of familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy first recorded in Swiss and Finns respectively, the differences in their patterns of neurological disease and ocular lesions could be the result of their amyloids deriving from proteins other than prealbumin.
(19) In the present study, the expression of type IV collagen associated with the basal membrane (BM) was studied histochemically (indirect immunoperoxidase-antiperoxidase) in cervical human papillomavirus (HPV) lesions (diagnosed using in situ DNA hybridization) of different grades.
(20) Patients with sarcoidosis that present only cutaneous lesions are uncommon but have been described.