(1) 54 patients (39 females and 15 males) in age from 29 to 85 years (average age of 60 years) with a chronic lacrimal canaliculitis were evaluated.
(2) Our report confirms the effectiveness and low morbidity of thorough curettage in the treatment of persistent or recurrent cases of canaliculitis.
(3) In the heart of the dog five types of thebesian veins were served: arboriform, sinuous, brush-like, canaliculated and stellate.
(4) The wall of seminiferous canalicules of bull and ram consists of more bigger and different structure than one at the other laboratory animals.
(5) The antigen to the anti-first fraction antibody was detected specifically in the epithelial cells of the bile ducts and the ductules, and the antigen to the anti-third fraction antibody was detected specifically on the membrane of the bile canalicules.
(6) The possibility that the pathogenesis of the canaliculitis and obstruction of the lacrimal pathways lies in decreased function of the lacrimal pump is discussed.
(7) The clinical trials included 40 patients with various forms of mycosis: mycotic canaliculitis (6 patients), mycotic blepharitis (4 patients), mycotic conjunctivitis (7 patients), keratomycosis (17 patients) and mycotic endophthalmitis (6 patients).
(8) Based on the pathological finding, canaliculated and cutting needle seem to be better than large one and it is the best choice to perform the pulmonary aspiration biopsy.
(9) The cytological positive cases were 57.1% in fine needle (22G), 79.6% in large needle (18G), 90.9% in canaliculated needle (18G) and 80.9% in cutting needle (14G), and the pathological positive cases were 0, 64.4%, 86.3% and 92.8% respectively.
(10) The chronic lacrimal canaliculitis is often overlooked and unsatisfactory treated.
(11) A case of canaliculitis with obstruction of the lacrimal canaliculus and accumulation of conglomerates is described.
(12) Based on stained smears of material obtained from the canaliculus, three cases of canaliculitis were presumed to be caused by Actinomyces.
(13) The complications were: rupture of punctum during dilation: 1%; suppurative canaliculitis: 1.3%; disappearance: 16%; epiphora: 22%.
(14) Lacrimal obstruction was also associated with canaliculitis, punctal agenesis, trauma, congenital fistula, dacryocystitis, craniofacial defects, and functional eyelid abnormalities.
(15) Two and a half weeks after a 62-year-old man underwent bilateral nasolacrimal intubation with silicone tubes, canaliculitis and conjunctivitis developed.
(16) All patients had a history of canaliculitis-related symptoms for a minimum of 6 months and clinically detectable canalicular concretions before initial treatment.
(17) Four cases are illustrated, two congenital (a skin-canaliculous and a canaliculous-palpebral fistula) and two acquired (a rare case of sac-orbital fistula and a canaliculous-palpebral fistula arisen during dacryography).
(18) Two of these strains are recent isolates, one, 427, from a case of cervico-facial actinomycosis, and one, 439, from a case of lacrimal canaliculitis.
(19) While various techniques have been proposed for the treatment of canaliculitis, there have been no published series that evaluate the efficacy of simple curettage in the treatment of persistent or recurrent canaliculitis.
(20) We report the effectiveness of thorough, simple curettage (without canaliculotomy) in 11 patients with chronic canaliculitis.
Grooved
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Groove
Example Sentences:
(1) The ligands bind at discrete sites in the minor groove of DNA, and analysis on DNA sequencing gels show pronounced protection at the ligand binding sites, as well as more generalized protection.
(2) Recent reports have indicated the usefulness of nuclear grooves (clefts or notches) as an additional criterion for the diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinoma in fine needle aspirates; most of these studies were carried out on alcohol-fixed material stained with the Papanicolaou stain or with hematoxylin and eosin, which yield good nuclear details.
(3) Intermolecular contacts occur in both oligomers in the minor groove: in the B form through twisted guanine-guanine hydrogen bonding, and in the Z form through base-base stacking and the water network.
(4) The nogalose and aminoglucose sugars lie in the minor and major grooves, respectively, of the distorted B-DNA double helix.
(5) The AFB1 moiety is face-stacked in the major groove with its long axis approximately perpendicular to the helix axis.
(6) These results strongly indicate that metallobleomycin binds in the minor groove of B-DNA and that the 2-amino group of guanine adjacent to the 5' side of the cleaved pyrimidine base is one key element of the specific 5' G-C or G-T recognition by the bleomycin-metal complex.
(7) As a basis for the discussion a possible structure for the DNA complex of the phenylated neutral red is considered in which the extra phenyl ring at N-5 of the phenazinium system, protrudes into the large groove of the DNA helix while the tricyclic part of the ligand is inserted between the DNA base-pairs.
(8) A high intensity of the reactions was observed in certain cells of the neural groove in 24-hours' embryos and in the neural tube of 48-hours' embryos.
(9) Recent STM studies of calf thymus DNA and poly(rA).poly(rU) have shown that the helical pitch and periodic alternation of major and minor grooves can be visualized and reliably measured.
(10) In the absence of boxes or grooves, pins markedly enhanced both retention and resistance.
(11) Therefore in artificial knee replacement a lateral tilt of the patella sliding groove should not be propagated as 'physiological'.
(12) Many antitumor drugs, and many carcinogens, act by binding within the minor groove of double-helical DNA, interfering with both replication and transcription.
(13) This instrument, a modification of a corneal trephine, provides a neat, smooth groove of adjustable depth.
(14) and the fluid ejected from the ejaculatory groove region (about 0.2 ml.).
(15) 3) The significance of minor groove Mtase-DNA interactions to specificity is confirmed.
(16) (v) The bis-benzimidazole drug Hoechst-33258, which binds in the minor groove of B-DNA, exhibits very little fluorescence in the presence of the ps hairpins but a normal, enhanced emission with the aps oligonucleotides.
(17) We have studied the time-resolved and the steady-state fluorescence of the DNA groove binders 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole (DAPI) and Hoechst 33258 with the double stranded DNAs poly(dA-dU) and poly(dI-dC) and their halogenated analogs, poly(dA-I5dU) and poly(dI-Br5dC).
(18) The complexation-induced chemical shifts and NOE cross peaks in the NOESY map of the 1:1 complex of lexitropsin (1) and d-[CGCAATTGCG]2 reveal that the thiazole ring of the lexitropsin (1) intercalates between dA4.A5 bases and the rest of the ligand resides in the minor groove of the AT rich core of decamer, thus occupying the 5'-AATT sequence on the DNA.
(19) All cases had true hypertelorism and a median nasal groove with absence of the nasal tip.
(20) Distamycin, Hoechst 33258, and DAPI were used as agents capable of AT-specific binding in the minor groove of DNA while producing no profound long-range distortion of DNA structure.