What's the difference between desmoid and ligament?
Desmoid
Definition:
(a.) Resembling, or having the characteristics of, a ligament; ligamentous.
Example Sentences:
(1) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
(2) Mesenterial fibromatosis, also known as aggressive fibromatosis or desmoid tumor is generally associated with Gardner's syndrome but otherwise an extremely rare disease.
(3) Eight patients had a malignant tumor, three an extra-abdominal desmoid.
(4) In four cases the tumours were of desmoid structure.
(5) A history of childbirth, antecedent surgery, multiple episodes of recurrence, resistance to excisional and radiation therapy, represent common features of desmoid tumors.
(6) Three intra-abdominal desmoids were treated by radiation therapy with no response.
(7) Desmoid tumors are rare, but not in patients with Gardner's syndrome.
(8) Mesenteric desmoid tumors present difficult management problems among patients with Gardner's syndrome.
(9) A case of aggressive fibromatosis (extra-abdominal desmoid) found in a 9-month-old male mixed breed cat is described.
(10) A case of extra-abdominal desmoid tumor was studied with 67Ga scintigraphy.
(11) We describe the case of a 50 year old female patient, with abdominal pain caused by an intraabdominal desmoid tumor.
(12) The major causes of death in 36 patients who underwent prophylactic colectomy were desmoid tumor and periampullary malignancy.
(13) A 24 year old woman with Gardner's syndrome developed a massive chest wall desmoid tumour, which required radical excision and prosthetic reconstruction.
(14) Desmoid tumors of the head and neck are uncommon and associated with a posttreatment recurrence rate as high as 70 percent.
(15) The paper reports a case of mesenteric fibromatosis with familial polyposis, an association which was diagnosed as Gardner's syndrome, and highlights the complications connected to mesenterial desmoid tumours.
(16) Desmoids are uncommon mesenchymal tumours that occur at single or multiple anatomical sites, occasionally in association with polyposis coli.
(17) One IPAA patient (1 percent) required pouch excision for a desmoid tumor, while two IR patients (11 percent) required proctectomy and ileostomy for recurrent dysplastic polyps (P less than 0.05).
(18) Two cases of mesenteric desmoids observed after colectomy are reviewed.
(19) We conclude that histological features easily evaluated by conventional light microscopy provide useful information on the possible course of infantile desmoid-type fibromatosis.
(20) A retrospective review of MR images of 36 patients with histologically proved extraabdominal desmoids was done to define the MR characteristics of these tumors and to determine if MR could be used to differentiate desmoids from other benign and malignant soft-tissue neoplasms.
Ligament
Definition:
(n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
(n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
(n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) The oral nerve endings of the palate, the buccal mucosa and the periodontal ligament of the cat canine were characterized by the presence of a cellular envelope which is the final form of the Henle sheath.
(2) Collagen production of rapidly thawed ligaments was studied by proline incubation at 1 day, 9 days, or 6 weeks after freezing and was compared with that of contralateral fresh controls.
(3) It also provides mechanical support for the collateral ligaments during valgus or varus stress of the knee.
(4) Ligaments played a very minor role in the lifts studied.
(5) (4) Despite the removal of the cruciate ligaments and capsulo-ligamentous slide, no significant residual instability was found in either plane.
(6) Eight adolescents were followed 3-8 years after primary suture of a substance rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament.
(7) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(8) The clinical examination must cover all the anatomical detection of lesions of individual parts of the capsular ligaments.
(9) The major mode of failure was ligament disruption in the specimens from young adult humans and avulsion of bone beneath the ligament insertion site in the specimens from older humans.
(10) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
(11) We correlated the MRI report and arthroscopic findings of 18 patients with suspected meniscal or ligament injury.
(12) In some areas of the ligament, extracellular plasma membrane-invested matrix vesicles and thick wall-bound matrix giant bodies with or without mineralized deposits were present.
(13) Cubitus valgus or instability due to a pseudarthrosis of the lateral epicondyle or to ligamentous injury may stretch the nerve.
(14) (1986) described the connective tissue thickening and named it the mandibulo-stylohyoid ligament because of its arrangement and attachments.
(15) Immunohistochemical studies support earlier reports of a rich nerve supply to the posterior longitudinal ligament, a less developed innervation of the anterior ligament and the outermost annular ring, and a total lack of innervation in deeper parts of the intervertebral disc.
(16) The distinction between a benign and a severe ligamentous sprain may thus be made.
(17) Small extensions from the distopalmar outpouchings were seen and extended axially into the fibers of the suspensory ligament or between the suspensory ligament and the distal accessory ligament of the deep digital flexor tendon.
(18) Ings twisted the knee during his first training session with Klopp in charge and tests have shown the former Burnley forward ruptured an anterior cruciate ligament, meaning that a player who has just broken into England’s senior team will be out for a minimum of six months.
(19) Diagnosis and therapy of 125 ruptures of the fibular ligaments and capsulae are reported.
(20) However, at angles of flexion of 30 degrees or less, the amount of posterior translation after section of only the lateral collateral ligament and the deep structures was similar to that noted after isolated section of the posterior cruciate ligament.