(1) The fulminant collection of pseudopolyps was palable in the epigastrium on physical exam and caused a partial obstruction to the retrograde flow of barium.
(2) The carrier state was accompanied by intermittent pain in the epigastrium, diminished appetite, diarrhoea etc.
(3) A 45-year-old man was reported who experienced rapid rhythmic nodding of his head and equally rapid contractions in his epigastrium, which participated by certain psychic situations.
(4) The patient, a 33 year old male, had suffered from swelling of the chest, neck and face for 4 months; palpitation, chest and epigastrium pain, cough and yellowish sputum for 10 days before admission into our hospital.
(5) Within a short time the pain shifted to the right epigastrium, became more intensive (with deterioration during inspiration) and concurrently the patient developed marked muscular tension in the whole right upper abdominal quadrant.
(6) Five, however, later had return of pain, but only to the right epigastrium.
(7) A palpable, hard, uneven mass was found in the epigastrium.
(8) Whole-body scanning, carried out in connection with administration of radioiodine for ablation of remaining thyroid tissue, disclosed an unexpected area of increased uptake in the epigastrium.
(9) For several weeks a 27-year-old man had experienced a pressure sensation and noticed a spherical area of resistance in the epigastrium.
(10) A longitudinal scan from an intercostal space in the mid-axillary line and a right-anterior-transverse scan from the intercostal space were useful in displaying the right adrenal, and an anterior-transverse scan from the epigastrium was also useful in showing the left adrenal.
(11) The majority of bruitswere in the epigastrium, mainly because of a high incidence of celiac artery stenosis usually of the extrinsic compression type.
(12) Bleeding from sinuses in the chest wall or epigastrium or repeated hemoptysis were important clinical clues.
(13) A significant disproportionate effect on the epigastrium, predicted by the choice of acupuncture points, was found for tolerances but not thresholds.
(14) US found dilated intestinal loops and a septate cystic mass in epigastrium.
(15) The impedance of the epigastrium to a 4 mA, 100 KHz AC current increases while liquids of low electrical conductivity are being drunk.
(16) In the superior mesenteric artery syndrome which may complicate extensive burns, a systolic murmur may be heard in the epigastrium when the patient is supine but not when he is prone.
(17) Typical symptoms are acute gastro-intestinal bleeding, chronic gastric pain and palpable tumour in the epigastrium with relatively good general condition.
(18) Out of oxyfedrine++ side effects known up to the present (mild agitation, stupor, heat sensation, pains in the epigastrium++, skin allergy) 24 cases of ageusia appearing usually after 4 weeks of treatment with oxyfedrine++ were presented.
(19) The authors found with neonatal ultrasound screening a cyst in the epigastrium sized 45 x 18 x 36 mm.
(20) On grounds of the case history, the presence of a murmur in the epigastrium, and symptoms of involvement of other arteries it may be assumed that the abdominal abnormalities are of vascular origin.
Hypochondrium
Definition:
(n.) Either of the hypochondriac regions.
Example Sentences:
(1) Acute perihepatitis is an important differential diagnosis in young females presenting with acute pains in the right hypochondrium.
(2) Some technical difficulties due to an inflammatory infiltration in the right hypochondrium tissues were noted.
(3) The authors report the case of a 63 year-old woman who developed high-grade fever with chills, nausea, diarrhea, severe pain in the right hypochondrium, and jaundice after one month's treatment with 300 mg of hydroquinidine hydrochloride daily.
(4) Caecal volvulus is usually associated with a twisted caecum, seen to occupy the umbilical area or left hypochondrium on radiography.
(5) A 31-year-old female presented with a sudden onset of acute abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium.
(6) The plain abdominal film revealed gas in the left hypochondrium.
(7) The patient had complained of abdominal pain in the right hypochondrium and jaundice.
(8) A newborn baby presented with a lump in the right hypochondrium.
(9) They stress the interest of: --preliminary echotomography in patients with palpable masses in the left hypochondrium; --pharmaco-angiography for improved visualization of masses that are only weakly opaque; --a rapid infusion technique, proposed by various authors, which appears to be the most appropriate for the study of this type of mass which is mainly intermittent in its development.
(10) The evolution after Pase was simple in 6 patients: fever, pain in the left hypochondrium, and moderate ileus for 2-3 days.
(11) In idiopathic pancreatitis, 4 therapeutic behaviours which correspond to 4 different clinical types, are to be faced: --or after 5 to 6 days, division of the left hypochondrium with performing of a meticulous cleaning, followed by a large drainage lavage, --if all reanimation measures have failed, earlier surgery, often of the last chance, consisting in necrosectomy as extended as necessary, --in right away appearing pancreatic phlegmon, a very large drainage, --or, a more expecting attitude in cases in which resorption of the necrotic spots appears to be very slow on CT-Scan, but without any clinical abnormality.
(12) Three children presenting with HAV hepatitis had an initial clinical onset suggestive of acute cholecystitis (pain and guarding in the right hypochondrium, fever and delayed jaundice) associated with important ultrasonographic abnormalities, also very suggestive of acute cholecystitis: bladder wall thickness greater than 10 mm (3 cases), the presence of 2 or 3 layers of different echogenicities (3 cases), presence of an ultrasonographic Murphy's sign (one case), contents of the gallbladder echogenic (one case).
(13) The patient who had suffered from intermittent, subcutaneous gnathostomialis for about 10 years, developed pneumonia of the right lower lung followed by swelling on the right hypochondrium, and paresis of both legs accompanied by perianal numbness and retention of urine, and it seems reasonable to assume that the parasite migrated to the lung, hypochondrium, and the cauda equina, respectively.
(14) Fourteen young females with acute pains in the right hypochondrium were admitted to the Surgical Department.
(15) Analysis was made of records available in the disease histories of 270 patients who had referred to the district internist for pains in the epigastrium and right hypochondrium.
(16) Fine needle aspiration (FNA) performed on a young woman who presented with a mass in the left hypochondrium yielded fluid.
(17) It was diagnosed because of the clinical symptoms associated with the hypertension and a pain in the right hypochondrium and nausea.
(18) In acute pancreatitis related to biliary disease, pain is most frequently located in the right hypochondrium and the levels of amylase, GOT, GPT an alkaline phosphatase were higher, although only the last two parameters showed significant differences.
(19) While on therapy, he complained of pain in left hypochondrium followed by palpitations.
(20) It is shown that despite the fact that the endoscopy-performing physician had discovered the indirect signs of biliary diseases, the district internist did not make any attempts at expanding the scope of examinations in order to find out the main cause of pains sensed by the patient in the epigastrium or in the right hypochondrium.