(n.) The operation of opening the fetal head, in order to effect delivery.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hematoma clot weighing 10 grams was removed through emergency craniotomy, followed by external decompression.
(2) To evaluate whether local anesthetic scalp infiltration blunts hemodynamic responses to craniotomy in anesthetized children (age, 2-18 yr), two concentrations of bupivacaine (0.125% and 0.25%) with vasoconstrictor (epinephrine 1:400,000) were compared with control data when a solution of vasoconstrictor alone was injected.
(3) On the other hand, the site and size of bony window made in craniotomy for supratentorial lesion has relationship with perfectibility of operation.
(4) Six patients with juvenile pilocytic astrocytomas of the thalamus or basal ganglia underwent seven computer-assisted stereotactic laser craniotomies with complete or nearly complete removal of the tumor in all cases.
(5) A right frontal craniotomy was performed on November 2, 1989, but neck clipping of the aneurysm was impossible, because it was a pseudoaneurysm with quite a fragile neck.
(6) Stereotactic techniques can also be used to aspirate abscesses or localize abscesses or neoplastic lesions excised by craniotomy.
(7) Craniotomy disclosed an abscess containing yellow pus from which Streptococcus viridans was cultured.
(8) An inoperable pituitary adenoma was a massive surrounding fibroblastic reaction was found at craniotomy.
(9) It is currently deployed via a bifrontal craniotomy and is placed primarily as a support beneath the frontal lobes.
(10) The anatomical findings at craniotomy are described.
(11) The exposure and operative management comprised a latero-facial approach combined with multiple exposure osteotomies of the ascending mandibular ramus, orbitozygomatic region and a frontosphenotemporal craniotomy.
(12) Two others had proven brain damage, one a massive cerebral infarct and one a traumatic cerebral hematoma requiring craniotomy.
(13) 24 patients scheduled for elective craniotomy were investigated.
(14) Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian At the cutting edge, literally, of NHS treatment, we saw “awake craniotomy” at St George’s hospital, Tooting, south London.
(15) A craniotomy followed by a bilateral external ethmoidectomy was necessary for complete extirpation of the infected mucoceles.
(16) Decompression resulting from craniotomy and biopsy, led to a partial reversal of this cerebral hypofunction.
(17) The effects of craniotomy on cerebral haemodynamics remains controversial from a study of the literature.
(18) Following V-P shunt operation for hydrocephalus, right temporo-parietal craniotomy was performed.
(19) This retrospective study found that: DTICH usually occurs the first week after trauma, but could happen several weeks later; patients with skull fractures are at higher risk (p less than 0.01); osmotherapy as well as barbiturate therapy seem to have no influence on this complication; craniotomy (or craniectomy) appears to be a significant factor in the cause of DTICH (p less than 0.05).
(20) Capillary mean transit time was determined by detection of the passage of a hemodilution bolus through a region of the parietal cerebral cortical surface, using a reflectance spectrophotometer through a small craniotomy in chloral hydrate-anesthetized rats.
Skull
Definition:
(n.) A school, company, or shoal.
(n.) The skeleton of the head of a vertebrate animal, including the brain case, or cranium, and the bones and cartilages of the face and mouth. See Illusts. of Carnivora, of Facial angles under Facial, and of Skeleton, in Appendix.
(n.) The head or brain; the seat of intelligence; mind.
(n.) A covering for the head; a skullcap.
(n.) A sort of oar. See Scull.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, CT will be insensitive in the detection of the more cephalic proximal lesions, especially those in the brain stem, basal cisterns, and skull base.
(2) For the case described by the author primary tearing of the chiasma due to sudden applanation of the skull in the frontal region with burstfractures in the anterior cranial fossa is assumed.
(3) The skull films and CT scans of 1383 patients with acute head injury transferred to a regional neurosurgical unit were reviewed.
(4) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(5) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(6) As I looked further, I saw that there was blood and hair and what looked like brain tissue intermingled with that to the right area of her skull."
(7) The inner table of the skull over the lesion was eroded.
(8) A three-dimensional anatomic model of a human skull was produced with birefringent materials for photoelastic analysis.
(9) The effects on skull growth of plating the coronal suture and frontal bone were studied in New Zealand White rabbits.
(10) Much more recently, use of modern CT ("computed tomography") scanning equipment on the London Archaeopteryx's skull has enabled scientists to reconstruct the whole of its bony brain case - and so model the structure of the brain itself.
(11) Tension pneumocephalus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and plain skull X-ray.
(12) After removal from the skull, the brains were processed for histopathological evaluation of ischemic neuronal damage by light microscopy and morphometry.
(13) The author describes three systems for (1) the treatment of mandibular fractures; (2) the treatment of midface fractures, for reconstructive surgery of the facial skeleton and the skull, and for orthognathic surgery; and (3) the reconstruction of mandibular defects including condyle replacement.
(14) To avoid the complications attributable to the cervical spine, we recommend roentgenographic examination in all neurofibromatosis patients who are about to have general anesthesia or skull traction for treatment of scoliosis.
(15) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(16) Lateral skull X-ray images are routinely used in cephalometric analysis to provide quantitative measurements useful to clinical orthodontists.
(17) The absence of a visible fracture on plain skull radiographs does not exclude a fracture, and those patients with clinical signs of a fracture should be treated appropriately and further investigations performed.
(18) In our study, 17 fractures were detected in 594 patients who had skull radiography because of trauma to the head.
(19) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
(20) A new combination of techniques for resection of hemangiopericytoma of the skull base is described.