(n.) The anterior or cardiac orifice of the stomach, where the esophagus enters it.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two Libyan brothers with achalasia of the cardia, microcephaly, and mental retardation are described.
(2) Serum analyte results for greater than 5000 black and white men and women in the CARDIA Study showed clinically and statistically significant differences by race and sex for values of aspartate aminotransferase, gamma-glutamyltransferase, alkaline phosphatase, total bilirubin, total protein, and albumin; these differences were not explained by differences in age, body mass, reported ethanol intake, smoking, or oral contraceptive use.
(3) Gradually, the indications for the abdominal approach have become dominant, even if the cardia cannot be lowered.
(4) This procedure is one of the best approaches for carcinoma of gastric cardia according to our criteria.
(5) Three cases of adenocarcinoma of the lower esophagus and cardia which is considered to be difficult to control by radiotherapy alone, were given radical irradiation combined with FT-207 suppository.
(6) Based on a material of 223 patients treated for cardia carcinoma the surgical problems and the results after palliative, radical and enlarged resection are discussed.
(7) Most of these functional disorders were of benign nature, including simple or complicated reflux disease of the oesophagus, achalasia of the cardia, para-oesophageal and mixed hiatus hernia, and diverticulum.
(8) During the last 10 years the authors observed 71 cases of adenocarcinoma of the gastric cardia, including 7 cases of linitis plastica.
(9) They comprised 1.3% of 932 cancers of the gastric cardia treated during the same interval.
(10) The physiological parameters in healthy cardia and the cardia muscle system in achalasia did not vary significantly from one another.
(11) Nd:YAG laser therapy is an attractive palliative treatment for carcinoma of the esophagus and gastric cardia.
(12) The former ones include cardia insufficiency, deranged bowel function, rectal syndrome, diseases of the gallbladder, pathology of the liver and pancreas; among the latter ones are essential hypertension, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, chronic nonspecific pulmonary diseases, and diabetes mellitus.
(13) We have also, since June 1983, employed a left thoracotomy approach for lesions of the gastric cardia and mid- or lower oesophagus.
(14) A weak interaction effect between smoking and vodka drinking was found for intestinal cardia cancer.
(15) Tumors of the gastroesophageal junction were not linked to H. pylori infection, nor were tumors in the gastric cardia.
(16) Palliative intubation for inoperable malignant strictures at the cardia was done on 16 occasions in 13 patients using fiberoptic endoscopy.
(17) Cholesterol levels are representative and somewhat lower blood pressures in CARDIA are probably, at least in part, due to differences in measurement methods.
(18) In 12 dogs, a Vicryl scarf was laid around the cardia; six dogs served as controls.
(19) A food bolus was found at the junction of the caudal thoracic portion of the esophagus and the cardia.
(20) Clinical features of carcinoma located at the cardia should be differentiated from carcinoma of the stomach or the esophagus.
Esophagus
Definition:
(n.) That part of the alimentary canal between the pharynx and the stomach; the gullet. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nine months later, the animals were sacrificed, the esophagus and the gastric stump were removed for histologic examination.
(2) Oral administration in domestic cats causes malignant hepatomas and tumors of the esophagus and kidney.
(3) Currently, photodynamic therapy is under FDA-approved clinical investigational trials in the treatment of tumors of the skin, bronchus, esophagus, bladder, head and neck, and of gynecologic and ocular tumors.
(4) Cancer of the mouth, pharynx and esophagus has decreased in all Japanese migrants, but the decrease is much greater among Okinawan migrants, suggesting they have escaped exposure to risk factors peculiar to the Okinawan environment.
(5) A 25-year-old woman presented with a giant leiomyoma in the lower third of the esophagus.
(6) During this 3-week period of no esophagus, the nutritional status can be adequately maintained by intravenous hyperalimentation.
(7) In adenocarcinoma of the distal esophagus and stomach, EUS prediction of stages T1 to T3 correlated well with the actual rate of R0 resection.
(8) During a 25-year period, four patients with esophageal diverticulum associated with carcinoma of the esophagus underwent surgery.
(9) To decrease the incidence of postoperative leakage, we used the Gambee's method of single layer anastomosis in cervical esophagogastrostomy for carcinoma of the hypopharynx and superior segment of the esophagus.
(10) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.
(11) We have reported the first case in the English literature in which there is a strong association between long-term immunosuppressive therapy and squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus.
(12) Pure sarcomas of the esophagus are exceedingly rare.
(13) Deep body temperature was recorded from the tympanic membrane, oral cavity, esophagus, and rectum.
(14) Case histories of two patients with hypertensive LES and normal peristalsis in the body of the esophagus are contrasted to that of a patient with a hypertensive LES and diffuse esophageal spasm.
(15) The results suggested that Bulbus allii had a preventive action against carcinoma of the esophagus, which could be attributed to increasing the immunity.
(16) We have found 20 cases of ectopic gastric mucosa in the proximal esophagus.
(17) Within 2 days after surgical correction of the bronchoesophageal fistula, peristalsis in the thoracic portion of the esophagus returned to normal and the esophagus resumed its normal size.
(18) On bronchogram and pulmonary arteriogram, the trachea and right bronchus were compressed and shifted with the anomalous origin of left pulmonary artery which originated from the right pulmonary artery and passed between the trachea and esophagus.
(19) Atropine stimulated significantly the rat liver and esophagus carcinogenesis, whereas the alpha-adrenoblocking agent, a pyrrhoxane analogue, and, particularly, proserine inhibited these processes.
(20) Patients with advanced carcinomas of the hypopharynx or upper esophagus have among the worst prognoses in head and neck oncology.