(n.) A long slender rod consisting of gelatin or some other substance that melts at the temperature of the body. It is impregnated with medicine, and designed for introduction into urethra, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The median time to intubation with the gum elastic bougie while simulating an 'epiglottis only' view was only 10 s longer than the time taken during conventional intubation with an optimum view.
(2) Instrumental investigations with catheters, bougies and endoscopes are important to diagnose urological diseases in children.
(3) Balloon dilation was not satisfactory in 2 patients (2 per cent) but it was accomplished by metal bougies.
(4) Bougie dilatation was continued at widening intervals for 18 months after the ingestion.
(5) Anal dilatations with bougies were effective in short stenoses which were present in 7% of cases.
(6) Before this procedure the esophagus had been dilated - in 31 cases with our new multistage bougie.
(7) The ureter was dilated with a ureteral bougie, and a 13F or 14F Storz ureteroscope was inserted.
(8) All these stenoses were curatively treated with the ESKA-Buess multiple-diameter bougie.
(9) The woman required several bougie and laser treatments.
(10) Patients were treated by dilatation (either pneumatic or mercury bougies) or surgery.
(11) Perforation, the major risk of dilatation, is now rare (0.22% out of 909 dilatations with Savary-Gilliard bougies).
(12) Several tubes are not discussed due to previous development in the literature or specialty purposes limited to diagnostics: esophageal manometry, Levin, Salem sump, gastrostomy tubes, bougies, dilators, the Dreiling tube and the Rubin-Quinton tube.
(13) Urethral calibration with bougie à boule, uroflowmetry and urethral pressure profile were performed before urethral dilatation and 1 week after the last dilatation.
(14) Dilatation of the esophagus with Savary-Gilliard bougies and using of the guide wire are considered a safe and many-sided method in the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal strictures.
(15) Treatment of the anal fissure consists in slow dilatation with a bougie in cases of acute fissues if the sphincter internus muscle is not highly spastic, in cases of chronic or very painful acute fissures a posterior or lateral sphincterotomy should be performed.
(16) The advantages of bougie versus balloon dilatation and the need for postdilatation stenting to preclude restricturing are analyzed.
(17) A case is presented of mediastinal abscess secondary to esophageal perforation after bougie dilation that evolved favorably with antibiotic treatment and without surgical drainage.
(18) The technique affords a better view of the procedure because of a wider visual angle and because the field of vision is not blocked by the bougie, as would be the case with the rigid endoscope.
(19) In these cases transduodenal sphincteroplasty is recommended instead of only treating with a bougie or dilating the papilla.
(20) For TUL, following the insertion of a guide wire and dilatation of the intramural ureter by ureteral bougie, a ureteroscope was introduced into the ureter.