What's the difference between diverticula and diverticular?
Diverticula
Definition:
(pl. ) of Diverticulum
Example Sentences:
(1) This hypothesis is consistent with recent findings of elastosis of the bowel wall muscles, the distribution of diverticula along the colon, as well as with epidemiological data on the emergence of diverticulosis coli as a medical problem and its geographic prevalence.
(2) In patients with less than 15 diverticula, 3.1% of lesions were missed, while in those with more than 15 diverticula, 20.4% of tumors were undetected.
(3) The studies allow the interpretation that retention of food in the diverticula is not the reason for the bacterial miscolonization of the duodenum and the biliary tract, but in patients with diverticula a disturbed self-cleaning mechanism is present.
(4) In contrast, for epiphrenic diverticula, functional esophageal explorations provide greater precision of the type of dyskinesia and allow better adaptation of surgery to type of dyskinesia associated with diverticulum.
(5) Solitary diverticula were seen in three patients and in the fourth case there were three diverticula.
(6) Lesions were bifid ureters with blind branches (20 cases), single (8 cases) or multiple (10 cases) diverticula of ureter and pelvic diverticula (11 cases).
(7) In symptomatic cases, extraluminal diverticula are amenable to surgery, whereas intraluminal diverticula may be either surgically or endoscopically resected.
(8) A meticulous review of the literature and several personal surgical cases confirms the view that only those diverticula causing evident symptoms or complications should be treated.
(9) X-ray examination of 123 patients showed duodenal diverticula seated primarily in the descending part.
(10) In a prospective study of 70 patients with duodenal diverticula and calculous biliary tract disease, bacteriocholia with typical intestinal bacteria was found in 69%, whereas in cholelithiasis without duodenal diverticula this complication was present in 30% of the cases.
(11) Following ingestion by a tick, B. burgdorferi lodges in the midgut diverticula, in some instances penetrating the gut wall and invading various tissues.
(12) Congenital, neuromuscular and motor abnormalities of the pharynx, esophagus and diaphragm, coupled with intra- and extraluminal factors, play roles in the pathogenesis of esophageal diverticula.
(13) Lymphoglandular complexes had lymphoid follicles in the tunica submucosa; epithelial diverticulae extended through the muscularis mucosae branching into the lymphoid nodule.
(14) The spirochaetes remain motile in the pharynx and oesophageal diverticula for several hours but are apparently immobilised in the midgut (Kumm & Turner, 1936).
(15) So pressure and the rate of irregular wave pattern of phasic contraction in patients with diverticula were significantly higher than those in patients without diverticula.
(16) Even large and broad-based diverticula should be removed in emergency situations, if no special or temporary contraindications are present.
(17) The indications for percutaneous removal of calculi in caliceal diverticula depend on two aspects: it should be possible to puncture the caliceal diverticula via by a short parenchymal route coaxial to the axis of the calix and, if the intercostal approach is used, a pleural lesion must be excluded.
(18) The use of an operating microscope and the laser is a great improvement in endoscopic treatment of hypopharyngeal diverticula.
(19) We report 2 cases of definite caliceal diverticula progressing to simple renal cortical cysts.
(20) Rupture of the latter resulted in large diverticula.
Diverticular
Definition:
(a.) Pertaining to a diverticulum.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, esophageal emptying of solid isotopic meals may show the persistence of food in the diverticular sac long time after the meal.
(2) Bronchoscopy may then be carried out in order to study the area surrounding the diverticular orifice more closely, and to establish the condition of its mucous lining.
(3) Sixty-one patients had faecal stasis and 23 patients had diverticular disease.
(4) The pressure below the neck of the diverticulum at the time when the bolus reached the diverticular entrance, was of the same magnitude or exceeded the resting pressure of the UES in 4 patients and was approximately 0 kPa in 2 patients.
(5) The authors conclude that for complicated diverticular disease H procedure improves survival without preferable continuity.
(6) Diverticular disease can affect the bladder in subtle ways.
(7) During the past five years sixty-three patients underwent operation for colonic diverticular disease, of which forty-six were for perforation (generalized peritonitis in 8, abscess in 30, and fistula in 8).
(8) Polyps, colitis, and diverticular disease were equally common in open access and hospital referred patients.
(9) During a three-year period, 30 patients had emergency Hartmann procedures for diverticular disease (N = 12), carcinoma (N = 6), trauma (N = 3), and miscellaneous causes (N = 9).
(10) We suggest that diverticular strictures and actinomycosis may coexist more often than the literature suggests.
(11) The authors preferred choledochoduodenal anastomosis for benign lesions, and anastomoses with the diverticular apparatus, or the main biliary pathway in palliative surgery.
(12) The clinical complications of diverticular disease may be unclear.
(13) The optimum surgical approach at laparotomy for acutely complicated diverticular disease would therefore appear to be a resectional procedure.
(14) 18% of patients with colonic diverticula developed a diverticular complication after transplantation.
(15) In 60 patients with barium enemas showing diverticular disease alone colonoscopy revealed 13 polyps and 1 carcinoma.
(16) Four patients were treated conservatively and two of these patients continued to have significant symptoms due to diverticular disease.
(17) A diet high in refined carbohydrate is implicated in the aetiology of some diseases of the colon-i.e., diverticular disease, irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, non-occlusive ischaemic colitis, and pseudomembranous colitis.
(18) On this basis, the use of coarse wheat bran, apples, oranges, and carrots is recommended to treat diverticular disease, spastic colon, and constipation.
(19) A case control study of 150 individuals with colonic symptoms and diverticular disease diagnosed by total colonoscopy was performed to ascertain whether adenomas and carcinomas are detected with a higher frequency in these patients than in matched controls with symptoms but not diverticular disease.
(20) Diverticular disease is generally benign but may be life threatening should progressive complications occur.