(n.) An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
Example Sentences:
(1) We studied the hemodynamic changes caused by bronchoscopy under LA in mechanically ventilated patients and the effect of LA on the endoscopic decline in arterial pO2.
(2) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
(3) The criteria for sero-positivity was determined from the median antibody concentration in a group of 368 non-endoscoped control patients.
(4) Endoscopic papillotomy was performed which resulted in a polypoid tumour delivering itself into the wound followed by a free flow of bile.
(5) The objective of this work was to determine the efficacy of an endoscopic approach coupled to a Nd:YAG laser fiber in performing arytenoidectomy.
(6) When a biliary origin is detected this can lead to immediate treatment using endoscopic sphincterotomy.
(7) The radiologic and endoscopic findings in six patients with anisakiasis of the colon were analyzed.
(8) Diagnostic endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in patients with complicated forms of the disease helps in identifying the cause of jaundice before the operation.
(10) This report describes a newly developed catheter system with the aid of which the cystic duct and gallbladder can be reliably catheterized, retrograde, via an endoscope.
(11) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
(12) Endoscopic coagulation is a useful adjunct in the treatment of this condition, and is safe, effective, and leaves other options open.
(13) With improved monitoring, the use of smaller, more flexible endoscopes, and more experience, routine general anesthesia in children less than 3 years of age, as recommended in the past, may not be mandatory.
(14) For the past 3 yr, we have used a physician assistant in our endoscopy laboratory to assist with and perform endoscopic procedures.
(15) Treatment is therefore often palliative, and endoscopic modalities cause considerably less general upset to the patient than surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy.
(16) Sixty-five percent of the consultations resulted in an endoscopic procedure.
(17) Endoscopic examinations were performed at the beginning of the study and after four weeks of treatment.
(18) A 52-year-old woman was diagnosed to have IIc+IIa-like advanced gastric carcinoma in the upper stomach by X-ray and endoscopic examination with biopsy.
(19) Three-five days after endoscopic laser destruction long-distance open-field gamma-beam therapy was administered to 10 patients and polychemotherapy to 9 of these.
(20) For the future, myomectomy by endoscopic techniques may hold similar potential.
Gastroscope
Definition:
(n.) An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Flow cytometric DNA analysis was performed on both fresh and on paraffin embedded samples obtained by gastroscopic biopsies in 5 patients with histologically normal gastric mucosa (20 specimens) and by radical gastrectomies in 9 cases of human gastric cancer (36 specimens).
(2) The gastroscopic evaluation of the acute type may be extremely difficult, especially after gastric resection, the survey being very poor.
(3) During diagnostic endoscopy the gastroscope unexpectedly passed to the transverse colon through a relatively large ulcerous gastrocolic fistula.
(4) Provided that the intussuscepted segment appears viable it seems justified to aim initially to reduce jejuno-gastric intussusception with the aid of the gastroscope.
(5) The diagnostic accuracy of the method was evaluated at gastroscopic control.
(6) The gastroscopic reports of a period of 5 years were evaluated.
(7) In an earlier publication, the intestinal placement of Miller-Abbott-tubes using routine gastroscopic equipment was proposed for the conservative treatment of intestinal obstruction.
(8) Not until the efficient gastroscopic instruments based on fiber optics and with extremely flexible points as well as advance view optical systems were developed large-scale, introduction esophageal gastro-bulboscopy in hospitals and in offices of specialists became possible.
(9) The bubble is visualized through a gastroscope and deflated using bicap cautery.
(10) The authors discovered 312 cases of intestinal metaplasia in 4 920 patients who had been gastroscoped in the Digestive Endoscopy Center of François-Moutier.
(11) Intraoperative transesophageal 2-dimensional and Doppler evaluation, and, in selected patients, echo-contrast and color flow imaging, were performed with either a 3.5- or 5.0-MHz phased array probe mounted within the tip of a flexible gastroscope.
(12) Platinum electrodes were lengthened and modified to permit passage through the instrument channel of a standard gastroscope.
(13) During a two-year period at Warwick Hospital 53 patients have undergone flexible fibreoptic endoscopy using a gastroscope, with visualization of the pharynx, larynx and upper G.I.
(14) The premalignant process in the gastric mucosa was studied by gastroscopic surveys of Colombian populations, and the prevalence of superficial gastritis, chronic atrophic gastritis, and intestinal metaplasia was calculated for population samples having a very high gastric cancer risk (Nariño), very low risk (Cartagena), and intermediate risk (Cali).
(15) Gastroscopic biopsy studies on 284 first degree relatives of San Marinese gastric cancer patients in the Republic of San Marino and in Detroit, where 2,000-2,500 San Marinese reside, have allowed detection of six gastric malignancies.
(16) A case is reported of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection with radiological, gastroscopic and histological appearances which led to a mistaken diagnosis of carcinoma of the stomach.
(17) Careful gastroscopic follow up with biopsy is recommended for all patients with multiple gastric polyps.
(18) The correct diagnosis was made radiologically in 60%, gastroscopically in 70%.
(19) The relationship between atrophic gastritis and stomach cancer risk was investigated in case-control analyses involving 387 cases with stomach cancer and 5,422 control subjects who received gastroscopic examination at Aichi Cancer Center Hospital from April, 1985 to March, 1989.
(20) One hundred and eighteen additional patients underwent two or more screening gastroscopic studies between July 1980 and July 1985.