What's the difference between bezoar and enterolith?
Bezoar
Definition:
(n.) A calculous concretion found in the intestines of certain ruminant animals (as the wild goat, the gazelle, and the Peruvian llama) formerly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of the remaining six patients, it was achieved by intraoperative milking of the gastric bezoar into the small bowel in two patients and by conservative treatment in four patients.
(2) Three (13.6%) of 22 patients available for follow-up had multiple episodes of bezoar formation.
(3) A specific form of phytobezoar in goats and sheep is described with regard to epizootology, symptomatology, gross pathology, and gross morphology of the bezoars.
(4) No differences were found when results were compared with those of operated patients without bezoars.
(5) Ash, nitrogen, phosphorus and zinc concentrations in both bezoars and plant material were similar, but very different to that of mohair; however, the calcium, magnesium, potassium and manganese levels of bezoars were more similar to mohair than plant matter.
(6) The bezoars were composed of vegatable material from either a tuber or rhizome.
(7) In retrospect, a computed tomographic (CT) scan had demonstrated the bezoar as a high density intraluminal mass surrounded by somewhat less dense contrast material distending the bowel.
(8) The postgastrectomy state predisposes to bezoar formation.
(9) We report a premature infant who developed anuria associated with bilateral candidal bezoar formation in the renal collecting system.
(10) All patients but three underwent enterotomy, gastrotomy, or enterotomy combined with gastrotomy for bezoar removal.
(11) This device can be employed for the removal of bezoars, foreign bodies, and multiple polyps.
(12) Gastric bezoar was confidently diagnosed based on these findings.
(13) The following parameters were studied: factors predisposing to bezoar formation (type of previous surgery, alimentation, and mastication), form of clinical presentation, diagnostic tests, and treatment.
(14) There was a single location of the bezoar in 85% and multiple locations in 15% at operation.
(15) The main exploratory technique for diagnosing cases of gastric bezoar was endoscopy.
(16) Yeast bezoars usually appear within a year of the operation.
(17) We report two additional cases with severe undernutrition and bezoar.
(18) Bezoar formed of Geotrichum candidum was fragmentated with biopsical forceps of "alligator" type.
(19) A rare type of bezoar composed of coconut matting was found in the stomach of a caucasian man.
(20) Intestinal bezoars can be treated by long-tube and enzyme instillation but usually require laparotomy.
Enterolith
Definition:
(n.) An intestinal concretion.
Example Sentences:
(1) A single enterolith had caused obstruction and rupture of the small colon.
(2) The impacted enterolith was removed by enterotomy and the smaller one milked into the intestine.
(3) Many cases of enteroliths were reported in the nineteenth century but the number greatly decreased in the early twentieth century.
(4) Radiography of the enterolith did not reveal a metallic center, but division of the stone allowed identification of a canvas cloth, and chemical analysis determined the stone's composition to be ammonium magnesium phosphate.
(5) Two cases of perforating duodenal diverticulitis are reported, one with enterolith formation, and the other with sonographic evidence of retroperitoneal emphysema.
(6) The mean reported age of horses requiring abdominal surgery because of an obstructive enterolith is 10 years, with the youngest being 4 years.
(7) Enteroliths were formed by mineral deposition in concentric layers about a central nidus of ingested material and were spherical or tetrahedral in shape.
(8) We describe small bowel obstruction secondary to an enterolith formed in a duodenal diverticulum, probably as a result of habitual ingestion of large amounts of kaolin.
(9) Conditions causing stasis predispose formation of enteroliths, which may be either radiopaque or radiolucent.
(10) Enterotomy of the large colon allows retrieval of most enteroliths from its lumen.
(11) A case of intestinal obstruction due to impaction of an enterolith in the distal ileum is reported.
(12) The intake of nitrogen, magnesium and phosphorus (the primary components of enteroliths) from water and food is likely to be a factor.
(13) Enteroliths or intestinal autochthonous calculi are among the rare causes of intestinal occlusion.
(14) In this paper we present an asymptomatic patient with enteroliths as a result of prior hemicolectomy for cecal carcinoma.
(15) Further studies in which the effect of mineral intake and form of the mineral on enterolith formation are needed.
(16) Obstructions caused by "true" enteroliths were confined to horses more than four years old.
(17) Studies of enterolith formation in the past have all been retrospective.
(18) Enteroliths of varying sizes were removed from the region of the transverse colon in all four horses.
(19) Apple cider vinegar and a high grain diet may reduce the incidence of enteroliths in horses prone to this problem.
(20) An enterolith was found in a huge jejunal diverticulum at post-mortem examination in the second patient.