(n.) A scoop or ring with either a blunt or a cutting edge, for removing substances from the walls of a cavity, as from the eye, ear, or womb.
Example Sentences:
(1) Curettement resulted in symptomatic and radiographic resolution of the tumor.
(2) This clinical trial suggests that Pipelle biopsy appears to be as effective as the Novak curette in obtaining an adequate specimen for histologic analysis and is associated with less pain.
(3) Repeated parallel cell samplings from the nasal mucosa were performed with cytologic imprints on plastic strips, nasal lavages with the recovery of the cells in the lavage fluid with cytocentrifugation on object slides for cytologic study, and scrapings from the nasal surface with a curette for histologic and ultrastructural evaluation.
(4) Vitality of root-attached tissues was preserved by preventing dehydration, avoiding curettement of root surfaces, and using a flap reflection technique which eliminates reflective forces in the intrasulcular incisional wound site.
(5) The point is a self-developed Suction-curette-system, consisting of a suction-curette of diametres of 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 und 8 mm, a cervicometer and a filter.
(6) The Pipelle endometrial suction curette was evaluated, and its application and effectiveness were compared to those of the Novak curette for endometrial sampling during the midluteal phase.
(7) Scaling with curettes was performed in five patients.
(8) Each of these patients, who underwent antegrade curettement, bone grafting, and pinning, had either failed a conservative program or had a loose or separated fragment.
(9) The use of clear plastic suction curette is objectionable because the operator can see the embryonic parts and sac as it passes through the tube.
(10) Eighteen edges of nine curettes of the same brands were likewise examined after root planing procedures.
(11) A new uterine curette is described, with features designed to help eliminate some of the instrumentation hazards in the operation of uterine curettage.
(12) Samples obtained by the washing technique had a slight but significantly higher proportion of coccoid cells when compared to samples obtained by curette.
(13) Fifty women underwent an endometrial biopsy with the Pipelle and Novak curettes.
(14) Previous problems with forward and backward movement of the curette is eliminated.
(15) On the other site the special curettes for root planing in the furcation region have a smaller curvature radius as that of the root faces.
(16) Operation was performed to excise the outer plate of the swollen bone and to curette the lesion after the ligature of the left external carotid artery.
(17) Six perforations were in the parametrium, producing no injury of the serosa; three of them required laparotomy because of abundant bleeding (laparotomy had to be applied previously in the two) and in the remaining 27 patients the uterine corpus was perforated either by a dilatator, forceps, curette or aspiration cannula.
(18) A few hand instruments such as a probe, Ferris-Smith rongeurs, and small, large, and right-angled curettes are needed to debride most lesions.
(19) Only a thin layer of root substance (11.6 microns) was removed by the ultrasonic scaler, compared to the much greater losses sustained with the airscaler (93.5 microns), the curette (108.9 microns) and the diamond bur (118.7 microns).
(20) The curette sampling technique was found to be efficient both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Surgical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(3) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(4) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(6) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(7) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(8) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(9) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(10) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(11) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(12) We reviewed our 5-year surgical experience with undescended testes in 295 patients.
(13) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(14) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(15) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(16) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(17) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(18) A new surgical procedure for idiopathic priapism has been used successfully in patients.
(19) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(20) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".