(n.) The art or process of examining by means of the endoscope.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the present study, 125 oesophageal biopsies obtained under direct vision at endoscopy from 22 patients with Barrett's oesophagus were systematically studied using fluorescence and peroxidase antiperoxidase single and double-staining immunocytochemical methods employing highly specific antibodies to localize the following peptide-containing cell types in Barrett's mucosa: gastrin, somatostatin, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, motilin, neurotensin and pancreatic glucagon.
(2) Survival and healing of "extremely severe" grade intoxication can only be obtained through a surgical intervention within the first hours; a laparotomy will indicate the depth of the lesions, which is not determined by endoscopy, and will consist of Celerier's stripping method and if necessary a gastrectomy, more seldom a cephalic duodeno-pancreatectomy.
(3) A patient with abdominal discomfort and hematemesis was found to have lower esophageal inflammation on endoscopy.
(4) Second, is it possible - by combining the two technologies of endoscopy and computers - to provide an individual patient with a short-term prognostic prediction sufficiently accurate to affect patient management.
(5) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
(6) Endoscopy showed an irregular erosion of 4 by 2 cm, from which biopsies were taken.
(7) US was considered normal in 25 of 28 patients (89%) with normal UGI series and endoscopy.
(8) An upper gastrointestinal endoscopy with multiple biopsies was performed in 19 children suspected of Crohn disease (CD) who had also undergone X-ray investigations and colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.
(9) The following investigations were carried out in all the cases: esophageal X-ray, GER scintigram, endoscopy, esophageal biopsy, Bernstein test and esophageal transit scintigram.
(10) The diagnosis of G-E reflux was confirmed in all by the acid reflux test; esophagitis was present in 55% of patients submitted to endoscopy; the Bernstein test was positive in 43%.
(11) For the past 3 yr, we have used a physician assistant in our endoscopy laboratory to assist with and perform endoscopic procedures.
(12) Seventy-three percent of respondents believed that endoscopy places personnel at risk for contracting AIDS.
(13) Reference is made to the world literature and personal experience acquired at the Digestive Endoscopy Centre, 3rd Surgical Clinic, in an assessment of the value of PRC and TPC in the diagnosis of hepatobiliary disease.
(14) Any two of the three tests (endoscopy, histology & Bernstein's test) in combination had a sensitivity of 80-91% and a specificity of 90-92%.
(15) after the endoscopy did not differ significantly from the preendoscopic levels.
(16) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(17) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
(18) Senior surgical residents in their fourth or fifth year of training spent 4 months in the endoscopy service as part of their surgical oncology rotation.
(19) Endoscopy and intragastral pH-metry were used to investigate the stomach and duodenum.
(20) Before the introduction of endoscopy, four out of 720 cases of gastric cancer were diagnosed before the cancer had breached the muscularis propia, an incidence of 0.5%.
Orifice
Definition:
(n.) A mouth or aperture, as of a tube, pipe, etc.; an opening; as, the orifice of an artery or vein; the orifice of a wound.
Example Sentences:
(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) The parameters of LES relaxation for both wet and dry swallows were similar using either a carefully placed single recording orifice or a Dent sleeve.
(3) The important concept implicit in this formula is that the hemodynamic evaluation of a stenotic valve requires that the pressure gradient across that valve be examined in light of the cardiac output passing through the orifice.
(4) 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.
(5) To study the effect of air sac pressures, a controllable pressure difference was produced between the air sac orifices of fixed duck lungs.
(6) This determines that the ureteral orifice enter the urogenital sinus laterally with respect to the Wolffian duct.
(7) The orifice size was slightly, but not significantly, smaller in patients over age 70 years compared with those younger than 70.
(8) In the light of experience acquired in our Echocardiography Laboratory, we recommend, in accordance with data from the literature, the exclusive use of pulsed Doppler and measurement of valve orifices by two-dimensional imaging at the point of insertion of the aortic and sigmoid cusps as well as at the mitral ring.
(9) Then using mathematical rules we configured out the mean volume of the root canal of each group and the mean value of the diameter of the orifice of the canal of each group of teeth.
(10) Loading is achieved by the production of transient, survivable plasma membrane disruptions as cells are passed back and forth through a standard syringe needle or similar narrow orifice.
(11) The standard surgical management of patients presenting with transitional cell carcinoma of the upper urinary tract is nephroureterectomy with excision of a cuff of bladder around the ureteric orifice.
(12) In this color Doppler method, one or more isovelocity surface areas (PISA), delineated by blue and red aliasing velocity interfaces, can be identified proximal to the narrowed orifice.
(13) Mitral orifice area is best determined with cross-sectional (two-dimensional) imaging systems.
(14) Hemodynamic comparison of the Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis with the standard Hancock xenograft showed similar effective orifice areas for the 23 and 25 mm diameter valves.
(15) Histological examination revealed ductal tissue in the wall of a pulmonary artery in more than half of the cases with atresia of the pulmonary orifice.
(16) Peak velocities in the rapid filling phase (R) and atrial contraction phase (A) were measured using two-dimensional Doppler echocardiography in the center of the mitral orifice in diastole.
(17) By combining Doppler catheter, echocardiographic and cardiac catheterization techniques, the effective aortic regurgitant orifice area may be estimated; this hydrodynamic area correlates with grading by supravalvular aortography.
(18) Recent improvements in two-dimensional, planar instrumentation promise to make echocardiography even more versatile, permitting more comprehensive views of left ventricular function, valve orifice areas, and the spatial relationships of the great vessels and ventricular chambers.
(19) The proximal isovelocity surface area (PISA) method, assessed by color Doppler echocardiography, has gained acceptance as a means of calculating flow rate through regurgitant orifice.
(20) The authors have gained minimum blood losses when suturing with provisional catgut ligature through the urinary bladder bottom between interureteral fold and internal urethral orifice yet before dessection of adenoma surgical capsule and tumor enucleation.