What's the difference between carcinoma and carcinomatous?
Carcinoma
Definition:
(n.) A cancer. By some medical writers, the term is applied to an indolent tumor. See Cancer.
Example Sentences:
(1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
(2) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(3) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(4) Patients with papillary carcinoma with a good cell-mediated immune response occurred with much lower infiltration of the tumor boundary with lymphocyte whereas the follicular carcinoma less cell-mediated immunity was associated with dense lymphocytic infiltration, suggesting the biological relevance of lymphocytic infiltration may be different for the two histologic variants.
(5) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(6) 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.
(7) In one of 28 cases with LCIS examined by mammography there was suspicion of carcinoma.
(8) Twenty patients with non-small cell bronchogenic carcinoma were prospectively studied for intrathoracic lymphadenopathy using computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
(9) Two cases with primary Carcinoma in situ (Cis) were treated with the same protocol.
(10) Because of the small number of patients reported in the world literature and lack of controlled studies, the treatment of small cell carcinoma of the larynx remains controversial; this retrospective analysis suggests that combination chemotherapy plus radiation offers the best chance for cure.
(11) CK-MM and CK-MB were not increased in any types of carcinoma.
(12) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
(13) Biotin-avidin immunoperoxidase analysis for hCG was performed on all paraffin blocks containing carcinoma-in-situ, grade I, grade II, and grade III transitional cell carcinoma.
(14) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
(15) The only localized tumors known to produce elevation of CEA above the levels observed in non malignant diseases are carcinomas of the large bowel and the pancreas.
(16) Except for IAP in hypopharyngeal carcinoma, these values were significantly higher than those of controls (IS, P less than 0.01; IAP, P less than 0.05).
(17) We report a retrospective study of 107 cases of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon and upper rectum treated for primary cure at the University of California at Los Angeles Hospital between 1955 and 1970.
(18) Histological and electron-microscopic study of the lungs of 15 patients who had been treated with bleomycin for advanced squamous cell carcinoma demonstrated marked histological changes in nine.
(19) Also for bronchogenic carcinoma with that a dependence could be shown between haemoglobin concentration--and by this the oxygen supply of the tumor--and the reaction of the primary tumor after radiotherapy.
(20) PAF was found in almost all carcinoma, although it was not detected in most of the matched, nontumor breast tissue samples.
Carcinomatous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to carcinoma.
Example Sentences:
(1) The peritoneal M phi were remarkably increased in number in patients with carcinomatous peritonitis.
(2) Eight 'normal' gallbladders and six distended gallbladders from patients with carcinomatous obstruction of the common bile duct were examined.
(3) This is unlike DAB-1 and DAB-2 which showed poorly differentiated trabecular or anaplastic carcinomatous patterns.
(4) The relationship between the concentrations of total and apparent free testosterone in the plasma and the levels of testosterone (T), dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and 5 alpha-androstan-3-alpha, 17 beta-diol (DIOL) in 13 benign hypertrophic and 6 carcinomatous prostates was studied.
(5) The main factors influencing the long-term results are lymph node metastasis, carcinomatous invasion to gastric serosa and the type of resection, either palliative or curative.
(6) Transition from carcinomatous to sarcomatous picture was noted and the presence of tonofibrils and desmosomes was demonstrated by electron microscope in the cells with sarcomatous features.
(7) The morphological spectrum of the small cell carcinomatous component is similar to that seen in lung tumors.
(8) The activity in carcinomatous prostatic epithelial cells varied considerably between specimen from different patients but was uniform within a given specimen in contrast to the variation of epithelial CPK activity within non-carcinomatous tissue.
(9) In our case there was a "flow" of carcinomatous cells along the fistula, which entered the meningocele, invading the subdural space as far as the peduncle.
(10) Carcinomatous transformation has been reported in eight cases, especially in those tumors of long duration.
(11) Microscopically the mass contained normal choroid plexus with psammoma bodies adjacent to carcinomatous epithelium forming prominent papillae and tubules.
(12) Three of these gave rise to adenocarcinomas after transplantation into syngeneic mice; the fourth produced tumors with carcinomatous and sarcomatous areas.
(13) Results demonstrate a clear difference in activities of these enzymes in carcinomatous tissue and normal tissue, which may be of value in follow-up care.
(14) The carcinomatous changes would have been of higher incidence than reported if the entire cysts had been more carefully examined.
(15) QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DIFFERENCES IN ENZYME ACTIVITY WERE OBSERVED BETWEEN NORMAL, TRANSITIONAL, AND CARCINOMATOUS MUCOSA AS FOLLOWS: monoamine oxidase activity was moderate in normal mucosa, high in transitional mucosa, and low in carcinoma.
(16) In contrast, the expression of this antigens is marked and progressive in carcinomatous tissues.
(17) In conclusion, our method is considered to be advantageous in the treatment of carcinomatous peritonitis of gastric cancer patients.
(18) In this study, monoclonal antibody was used to determine carcinomatous embryonic antigens in abdominal and pleural effusions of 137 cases.
(19) We reviewed the pathology of 81 malignant colorectal polyps in 80 patients treated by endoscopic polypectomy and assessed the importance of carcinomatous invasion of veins in the stalk (submucosa).
(20) Cytosol from human benign hyperplastic and carcinomatous prostatic tissue has been shown to contain a progestin receptor with a dissociation constant of approximately 10(-9) M. The receptor was measured using 3H-labeled R 5020 (17 alpha, 21-dimethyl-19-nor-4,9-pregnadiene-3,20-dione) as ligand.