What's the difference between epiploic and omentum?
Epiploic
Definition:
(a.) Relating to the epiploon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cefotetan tissue penetration was 10% into abdominal and epiploic fat and 46% into the colonic wall.
(2) Most streams gather around celiac axis, while the flow along right gastro-epiploic vein is also important.
(3) All three methods prove that the right gastro-epiploic artery is capable of maintaining an adequate blood supply of the stomach including the critical fundus region.
(4) An omental pedicle graft, based on the right gastro-epiploic artery to facilitate perineal healing, was used in 20 cases of abdominoperineal resection of the rectum.
(5) In a 52 year old pyknic patient in whom very violent pain had suddenly occurred in the left lower abdomen, an acute hemorrhagic infarction of an epiploic appendix of the sigmoid colon with adhesion to the anterior abdominal wall was found to be the cause of the symptoms.
(6) Porta-azygos disconnection was achieved by ligating the right gastric and gastro-epiploic veins.
(7) The right gastro-epiploic artery graft is mobilized along the greater curvature of the stomach, and transected distally.
(8) Responses to dopamine were compared in helical strips of human gastroepiploic arteries (proximal portion) and their epiploic branches (distal portion), partially contracted with prostaglandin F2 alpha.
(9) The mean internal diameter of right gastro-epiploic artery was 2.3 mm.
(10) The clinical picture and diagnosis of pathological conditions of the epiploic appendage of the colon (torsion, inflammation, necrosis) are discussed from analysis of the literature data and 180 cases from the author's practice.
(11) Amongst 77 patients studied by phlebography for obstruction of the inferior vena cava, 5 (6%) showed evidence of a portal collateral network: 3 via the mesenteric vein, 2 via the epiploic veins.
(12) Complications included 1 case each of bleeding mesosalpinx controlled by cautery, wound hematoma, hematoma epiploic appendix, and peritoneal burn.
(13) After gastrolysis by conventional methods, the blood supply of the stomach exclusively depends on the right gastric and epiploic arteries.
(14) In the abdominal wall fat and epiploic fat, tissue metronidazole levels greater than or equal to MIC90 for B. fragilis were found in 40 to 60% of patients at surgical incision and closure.
(15) From March 1990 to July 1991, 35 patients underwent coronary artery bypass grafts using the right gastro-epiploic artery (GEA).
(16) Disorders of the epiploic appendages are rarely diagnosed preoperatively and usually result from torsion with subsequent infarction.
(17) Posterior coronary arteries were grafted using the right gastro-epiploic artery, and grafts to the left coronary artery were done using predominantly internal mammary artery grafts.
(18) Surgical findings (nine operations) were: three omental segmental infarctions (primary in two cases and secondary to torsion in one), three segmental epiploitis in two patients (one acute, one chronic, one secondary to foreign body), two cystic lesions (one lymphangioma, one hydatic cyst) and one benign tumor (fibromatosis).
(19) Since it is characteristic of HCC often to form tumor thrombi in the veins, it is not surprising that the tumor budded into the epiploic vein.
(20) A 59-year-old male with ischemic heart disease and cholecystolithiasis underwent coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) using the right gastro-epiploic artery (GEA) and cholecystectomy simultaneously CABG was performed under standard extracorporeal circulation followed by cholecystectomy at the same incision.
Omentum
Definition:
(n.) A free fold of the peritoneum, or one serving to connect viscera, support blood vessels, etc.; an epiploon.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although there was a considerable overlap in the values of acoustic nonlinearity of different body fats, in general their values followed the order: mesenteric fat greater than subcutaneous fat greater than omentum fat greater than breast fat.
(2) Also numerous small knots on the small intestine, peritoneum, and omentum, as well as a considerable amount of ascites were observed.
(3) certainly in site at the beginning of pregnancy and with asymptomatic perforation of the uterus during the pregnancy with incorporation of the device by the omentum.
(4) The omentum acts as sheath that reinforces the anastomosis.
(5) Endolymphatic administration of kanamycin provided an increase in its activity in the inflamed tissues of the peritoneum and omentum and markedly prolonged its halflife as compared to those after the routine intramuscular administration of the drug.
(6) Omentum transposition promoted rapid healing with a low mortality rate.
(7) Splenic conservation by suture with or without packing with omentum or oxidized cellulose was successful in 27 out of 37 attempts.
(8) When 15 small sections were transplanted to the omentum in a "necklace" fashion, good uptake and preservation were seen after six months.
(9) This complication may be prevented by interposing the omentum between the liver and the duodenum at the time of any operation on the biliary system and the duodenum.
(10) The results of treatment of 12 children with primary acute diseases of the greater omentum, in whom preoperative diagnosis is difficult, have been analysed.
(11) The IUD had migrated to the cul-desac of Douglas and the omentum, respectively, and surgery was uneventful.
(12) Therefore the omentum leads the traffic of peritoneal macrophages.
(13) The autografts were divided into 4 groups as follows; no preservation (control) group (n = 4), graft preserved in Collins solution (n = 11), graft preserved in phosphate buffered extracellular solution (Ep4) (n = 11), and graft preserved in physiological saline solution (n = 11) for 24 or 48 hours at 4 degrees C. After preservation, laparotomy was performed on the animals and the tracheal autograft was wrapped in the distal portion of the omentum.
(14) The effectiveness of extracts was measured by the growth activity of bovine aortic endothelial cell incubated for 6 days with various omentum extracts.
(15) Since 1984, eight pelvic ependymomas have been reported that have originated in the ovary, broad ligament, mesovarium, and omentum.
(16) This problem is inherent to the design of catheters using sideports for outflow and is enhanced by the tenacity of the omentum in this population in walling off foreign bodies.
(17) Computed tomography demonstrated prominent linear soft tissue densities, an increase in CT number of the involved greater omentum, and posterior displacement of the small bowel.
(18) In former investigations the author described the use of omentum majus in building microsurgical compound island flaps employing supporting tissue.
(19) Fischer 344 rats and a transplantable carcinogen-induced rat colon cancer were used to test: (1) whether the omentum is a unique site of intra-abdominal colon tumor implantation which contributes to S.B.O.
(20) In five dogs (group C) the omentum with its own vascular supply was completely wrapped around the graft.