(1) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(2) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(3) Two additional forms were also found: four cleft feet with central polydactyly are described as polydactylous type, and three monodactylous feet with lower-leg diastasis or tibial aplasia or both are described as diastatic type.
(4) Closure of the pubic diastasis is best accomplished by iliac osteotomies.
(5) The loci of the superficial coronary arteries are reconstructed interactively at diastasis and the bifurcations are tracked semiautomatically throughout a cardiac cycle.
(6) However, scar bands of approximately the same width as the implant were responsible for cricoid diastasis in 23 cases.
(7) While at least 3 cases of congenital distal tibiofibular diastasis have been reported previously, this patient seems to be the first to have had hand and cardiac defects.
(8) In marked dilatation of the left ventricle cavity occurs a reduction of the role of the period of rapid filling in providing cardiac ejection and its compensation is realized mainly due to diastasis and its terminal phase--left atrium systole.
(9) These findings demonstrate the importance of testing for diastasis recti abdominis above, below, and at the umbilicus throughout and after the childbearing year.
(10) All patients had wide diastasis of the pubis (average 5.5 cm.).
(11) Diastole can be divided into four phases: isovolumic relaxation, early filling, diastasis, and atrial systole.
(12) Skull x-rays showed marked diastasis of the coronal suture and a "mottled" appearance on the right frontal bone suggestive of a sarcoma.
(13) There are frequent reports of the chronic nature of skin ulcers of varying etiology (burns, bedsores, wound diastasis, etc.
(14) The reason for the tacitly assumed connection between these two anomalies has, in part, been perpetuated by the generally accepted definition of submucous cleft palate as the triad of bifid uvula, notching of the hard palate, and muscular diastasis of the soft palate.
(15) We conclude: Isovolumic relaxation period, rapid filling phase, and diastasis atrial contraction period can be clearly defined by this technique.
(16) Larger areas of overlap and smaller diastasis between the fragments were more frequently associated with short periods of fixation (7 weeks or less).
(17) The initial evaluation included dynamic ultrasonography and MRI in a neutral position and at 20 degrees of plantar flexion to determine the amount of tendon diastasis.
(18) Pubic symphysis diastasis usually can be treated by nonoperative means.
(19) Techniques for managing traumatic diastasis of the pubic symphysis include bed rest, hip spica casting, pelvic slings, external fixation, and internal fixation.
(20) A commonly accepted test for diastasis recti abdominis was performed.
Fracture
Definition:
(n.) The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
(n.) The breaking of a bone.
(n.) The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture.
(v. t.) To cause a fracture or fractures in; to break; to burst asunder; to crack; to separate the continuous parts of; as, to fracture a bone; to fracture the skull.
Example Sentences:
(1) after operation for hip fracture, and merits assessment in other high-risk groups of patients.
(2) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(3) Three of the patients had had fractures of the femoral neck.
(4) Anatomic and roentgenographic criteria used for the assessment of reduction in ankle fractures are highlighted in this review of ankle trauma.
(5) The decline in the frequency of serious complications was primarily due to a decrease in the proportion of patients with open fractures treated with plate osteosynthesis from nearly 50% to 19%.
(6) Two cases of posterior lumbar vertebral rim fracture and associated disc protrusion in adolescents are presented.
(7) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
(8) From 1978 to 1983 in the Orthopedic University Clinic (Oskar-Helene-Heim, Berlin) 75 children with fractures of the distal humerus received medical treatment.
(9) Fractures which occur near the base of the dens have a low propensity to unite spontaneously.
(10) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
(11) Internal fixation of these pathological fractures appeared to be the best treatment.
(12) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(13) The incidence of femur fracture in non-cemented hip arthroplasty has been reported to be between 4.1% and 27.8%.
(14) In open fractures especially in those with severe soft tissue damage, fracture stabilisation is best achieved by using external fixators.
(15) By measurement and analysis of the changes in carpal angles and joint spaces, carpal instability was discovered in 41 fractures, an incidence of 30.6%.
(16) Conservatively treated compressed fractures of the distal radius dorsal metaphysis healed despite primarily good reduction and consequent treatment with a decrease in dorsal length.
(17) Unstable subcapital fractures and dislocation fractures of the humerus can usually be set by closed reduction.
(18) Formation of the functional contour plaster bandage within the limits of the foot along the border of the fissure of the ankle joint with preservation of the contours of the ankles 4-8 weeks after the treatment was started in accordance with the severity of the fractures of the ankles in 95 patients both without (6) and with (89) dislocation of the bone fragments allowed to achieve the bone consolidation of the ankle fragments with recovery of the supportive ability of the extremity in 85 (89.5%) of the patients, after 6-8 weeks (7.2%) in the patients without displacement and after 10-13 weeks (11.3%) with displacement of the bone fragments of the ankles.
(19) In 17 patients with femoral neck fractures who were between 15 and 40 years old the incidence of aseptic necrosis in patients followed more than 2 years was 18.7 per cent.
(20) The fracture can be treated arthroscopically by rigid internal fixation, while at the same time treating possible associated lesions.