What's the difference between enterotomy and incision?
Enterotomy
Definition:
(n.) Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Operative enterotomy and irrigation was successful in three cases while resection and enterostomy was done in nine.
(2) The question of whether the presence of peritonitis has any influence upon the process of healing and the load capacity of a standard enterotomy was studied in guinea pigs.
(3) In jejunojejunal and ileoileal intussusceptions, an attempt at primary reduction followed by resection or enterotomy is justified.
(4) An enterotomy, performed through a flank approach to the celiac cavity, successfully relieved the obstruction.
(5) Endoscopic peroperative panpolypectomy is carried out and only in bulky, broadbased, multiple or invaginating polyps is an enterotomy or a resection - kept to a minimum thanks to the information provided by the endoscopist - performed.
(6) Among 37,857 operations in a general surgical department (1965-1975), 205 interventions on the small intestine were necessary- enterotomies, oversuturing, amputations and resections.
(7) The small bowel was emptied preoperatively by a Dennis long-tube, and the impacted bolus was removed by enterotomy.
(8) All patients but three underwent enterotomy, gastrotomy, or enterotomy combined with gastrotomy for bezoar removal.
(9) The impacted enterolith was removed by enterotomy and the smaller one milked into the intestine.
(10) Reticuloendothelial clearance capacity was significantly (P less than 0-05) depressed 60 min following surgery (coeliotomy plus jejunal enterotomy) as quantified by both humoral and cellular parameters of RE function.
(11) In a case with approximately 30 hamartoma, associated endoscopic polypectomy and surgical removal of polyps by eversing the mucosa through enterotomies allowed the medicosurgical team to obtain a "clean small bowel" without resection.
(12) In most instances a proximal or distal enterotomy is required.
(13) From these data the authors conclude: that age alone should not be a deterrent to operative intervention in small bowel obstruction; the presence of a 1 degree or 2 degrees malignant process in the elderly patient is a significant risk factor for mortality; any patient operated on for SBO having an enterotomy should have their wound managed by delayed 1 degree closure; and because of the lack of reliability of the clinical criteria for strangulation, operative intervention in the elderly should be undertaken as soon as the diagnosis of mechanical obstruction is made.
(14) Patients are managed at laparotomy with intraoperative endoscopy, angiography, multiple enterotomies, "blind" resections, or placement of an enterostomy.
(15) The overall mean bursting pressure of non-contact-welded enterotomies was 50.6 mmHg.
(16) The patient was a chronic alcoholic who, when in an intoxicated state during sex, presumably swallowed condoms which resulted ultimately in the need for 14 laparotomies, 3 enterotomies, the resectioning of an intestine, and, once, the gastroscopic removal of the condom.
(17) In five patients, stones were removed by enterotomy and in three patients the obstruction was relieved by manual propulsion of the stones.
(18) Surgical procedures performed were milking of worms (34.12%), resection anastomosis of small intestine (23.36%), enterotomy with removal of worms (16.36%), cholecystectomy with T-tube drainage (12.15%), cholecystectomy (8.41%), appendectomy (1.87%), resection anastomosis with excision of Meckel's diverticulum (1.40%), repair of intestinal perforation with peritoneal toilet (1.40%) and cholecystectomy with choledochoduodenostomy (0.93%).
(19) Exploratory celiotomy was performed in 69 horses, the mass was reduced by extramural massage in 67 horses, and ingesta was removed via enterotomy in 2.
(20) Enterotomy of the large colon allows retrieval of most enteroliths from its lumen.
Incision
Definition:
(n.) The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
(n.) That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash.
(n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
(2) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(3) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(4) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(5) The reduction in respiratory function in those subjects without an abdominal incision demonstrated that other factors, particularly the influence of a general anaesthesia, need to be taken into account.
(6) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
(7) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(8) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
(9) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(10) By making the incision inside the hairline, there is no increase in the height of the pubic hair.
(11) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
(12) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(13) Middle-ear exploration in six patients revealed abundant granulation tissue; multiple granulomas and acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated on a section of tissue from one patient with a nonhealing mastoidectomy incision.
(14) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(15) The sample was divided into three groups based on the degree of pretreatment overbite: openbite subsample--no incisal overlap; overlap subsample--incisal overlap and no incisal contact; contact subsample--incisal overlap with incisal contact.
(16) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(17) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(18) Compared with a matched group without ultrasonic visualization, the eventual site for uterine incision and morbidity to the mother and fetus were not significantly different.
(19) The incision was then extended toward the opening of the left coronary artery.
(20) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.