(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.
Diverticulum
Definition:
(n.) A blind tube branching out of a longer one.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors report 4 new cases of heterotopic pancreas in children with prepyloric, jejunal, Meckel's diverticulum and mesenteric localization.
(2) During a 25-year period, four patients with esophageal diverticulum associated with carcinoma of the esophagus underwent surgery.
(3) 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.
(4) A search of the medical records from 1940 to 1975 at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco and Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley has revealed only 3 cases of carcinoma within a urethral diverticulum.
(5) The authors present a case of scaly carcinoma, located in a vesical diverticulum.
(6) Emergency laparotomy was performed after a recurrence of massive bleeding and revealed, 60 cm oral of the ileocaecal (Bauhin's) valve, a Meckel's diverticulum with ulcerated heterotopic gastric mucosa, 5 x 3 x 2 cm in size, and this was resected.
(7) The literature data concerning the incidence of Meckel's diverticulum in the adult and the frequency of its complications are examined and problems associated with the preoperative diagnosis of this form are discussed.
(8) The following ERP identified the tumour as a diverticulum of the duodenum.
(9) Recent manometric and radiological studies suggest that the upper oesophageal sphincter has poor compliance in patients with a pharyngeal (Zenker's) diverticulum.
(10) We recommend the use of the stapling device in excision of Zenker's diverticulum.
(11) In the last 8 years 15 cases of Meckel's diverticulum were observed, 6 of them with complications: three times inflammation (with two perforations), each once invagination, incarceration and occult bleeding from carcinoids.
(12) The tenth case of this curious entity in a diverticulum of urethra in women is presented here.
(13) High levels were found in the primitive heart, hepatic diverticulum and septum transversum; lower levels were found in the early somites and other primitive mesenchymal derivatives and midgut endoderm.
(14) A case of primary cancer of the vesical diverticulum in a patient with spinal cord injury is reported.
(15) 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.
(16) Most of these functional disorders were of benign nature, including simple or complicated reflux disease of the oesophagus, achalasia of the cardia, para-oesophageal and mixed hiatus hernia, and diverticulum.
(17) Pneumoperitoneum may be indicated in the investigation of a bleeding Meckel's diverticulum, in the exclusion or confirmation of remnants of the omphalomesenteric duct, in chronically moist lesions of the umbilicus resistant to symptomatic treatment, in suspected cases of non-communicating urachal cysts which cannot be diagnosed by cystogram, and in the differential diagnosis of abdominal tumours related to the umbilical region.
(18) A case of intraluminal diverticulum of the duodenum presenting with GI bleeding and associated focal diverticulitis has been added to the 39 other cases of intraluminal duodenal diverticulum previously described in the literature.
(19) The diagnosis of intestinal obstruction caused by Meckel's diverticulum is difficult.
(20) A case of adenocarcinoma of Meckel's diverticulum is reported.