(n.) A large box of wood, or other material, having, like a trunk, a lid, but no covering of skin, leather, or cloth.
(n.) A coffin.
(n.) The part of the body inclosed by the ribs and breastbone; the thorax.
(n.) A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.
(n.) A tight receptacle or box, usually for holding gas, steam, liquids, etc.; as, the steam chest of an engine; the wind chest of an organ.
(v. i.) To deposit in a chest; to hoard.
(v. i.) To place in a coffin.
(n.) Strife; contention; controversy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results also indicate that small lesions initially noted only on CT scans of the chest in children with Wilms' tumor frequently represent metastatic tumor.
(2) This article reviews the care of the chest-injured patient during the intensive care unit phase of his or her recovery.
(3) A comparison of chest pain description was performed between MI and non-MI subjects.
(4) After a review of the technical development and application of staplers from their introduction to the present day, the indications to the use of this instrument in all gastroenterological areas from the oesophagus to the rectum as well as in chest, gynaecological and urological surgery specified.
(5) Radiological findings on chest X-rays taken two weeks after BAI were evaluated according to Takeuchi's criteria.
(6) A case of dissecting hematoma involving the left main, left anterior descending, and left circumflex coronary arteries is described in a patient who had received vigorous closed-chest cardiac resuscitation.
(7) None of these were apparent on prior roentgenograms of the chest.
(8) A nine-year-old male child presented with a history of recurrent chest infections and breathlessness.
(9) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(10) Chest X-ray revealed multiple nodular lesions in both lung fields.
(11) Five normovolemic patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for atypical chest pain syndrome volunteered for this study.
(12) Of the 2,472 patients with chest pain evaluated by the emergency medical technicians, 453 (18%) were diagnosed with AMI during hospitalization.
(13) Persons with clinical abdominal findings, shock, altered sensorium, and severe chest injuries after blunt trauma should undergo the procedure.
(14) Fibreoptic bronchoscopy should be undertaken in patients suspected of having a pulmonary complication of AIDS, even if the chest radiograph is normal.
(15) The effect on mortality, serious ventricular arrhythmias and chest pain seemed to be similar in different age groups.
(16) A chest X-ray examination showed a large mediastinal mass on the right.
(17) ECG and chest impedance were continuously monitored and recorded.
(18) Treatment was always surgical, with the following procedures: Laparotomy and chest drainage tube in 7 cases (21%), thoracotomy in 12 cases (36%) and a combined thoracoabdominal approach in 14 (43%).
(19) Spirometry and lung volumes, diffusing capacity of carbon monoxide, chest radiograph, methacholine airway challenge, and bronchoalveolar lavage were done.
(20) In four of the empyemas, PCD was used successfully after incomplete or unsuccessful chest tube drainage.
Thoracoplasty
Definition:
(n.) A remodeling or reshaping of the thorax; especially, the operation of removing the ribs, so as to obliterate the pleural cavity in cases of empyema.
Example Sentences:
(1) Combined brachioplasty, thoracoplasty, and mammoplasty has proven to be safe, effective, and appropriate toward achieving these goals.
(2) After previous methods failed, two patients were successfully treated by using a one-stage procedure which included (1) suture closure of the fistula, (2) buttressing the repair with a viable, pedicled, two-rib intercostal-muscle flap, and (3) performing an extensive thoracoplasty with a continuous drip infusion of neomycin.
(3) The anaesthetic management of a patient who required right lower lobectomy for bronchial carcinoma associated with emphysema, pneumoconiosis and a previous thoracoplasty for pulmonary tuberculosis, is described.
(4) Empyema was cured, and the patient left the hospital 2 weeks after thoracoplasty.
(5) To close large defects in the thoracic wall following the resection of some ribs a new variant of autodermal thoracoplasty is suggested.
(6) Three patients are reported in whom chest wall tumors developed 19 to 28 years after thoracoplasty and increased in size with time.
(7) The incidence of postoperative pneumothorax and hemothorax is decreased by careful hook attachment, avoiding pleural penetration, judicious use of rib excision thoracoplasty, and roentgenographic verification of central venous pressure line position.
(8) Up to this time, obliteration and closure of the cavity has been carried out in 7 cases by using thoracoplasty (n = 2) or predicted muscle flaps (n = 5) either in the early course or after a delay of 11 to 23 months, with fair functional and cosmetic results.
(9) Thus the idea was born to enable lung collapse by mobilising the external thoracic wall, i. e. by means of rib resection: this principle was known as thoracoplasty.
(10) We performed thoracoplasty, cavernoplasty and extraperiosteal detachment.
(11) Thirty there patients were treated surgically (tamponade, thoracoplasty, rethoracotomy with suturing of the bronchial fistula, transsternal suturing of the bronchial fistulas).
(12) Pulmonary function was assessed in 15 patients who had undergone thoracoplasty (TPL) approximately 30 years previously.
(13) The development of KDC in the presence of external connective tissue stigmata, involvement of the cardiovascular system, changed dermatoglyphic pattern of the palms and fingers (as evidenced by dermatoglyphic analysis), as well as findings of histologic examinations of the cartilage removed in the course of thoracoplasty may indicate a generalized abnormality of the connective tissue in this patient population and KDC may be regarded as one of its manifestations.
(14) This provided immediate re-expansion of the lung and avoided the need for thoracoplasty.
(15) The patient underwent a right thoracoplasty without removal of plombage and a left thoracoplasty with removal of plombage for tuberculosis of the bilateral upper lobes 27 and 24 years prior to presentation, respectively.
(16) This study reviews a series of 30 patients treated with thoracoplasty over a 14-year period (1970 through 1983).
(17) Thoracoplasty combined with drainage effected closure in seven of 11 patients.
(18) Our technique was direct closure of bronchopleural fistula with omental pedicle flap without thoracoplasty.
(19) However with muscle flap and thoracoplasty, percent forced vital capacity decreased.
(20) Extrapleural pneumonectomy was required in 9 patients and extrapleural lobectomy in 12; thoracoplasty alone was done in 1 patient.