(n.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow, chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
Example Sentences:
(1) One patient with a large fistula angiographically had no oximetric evidence of shunt at cardiac catheterization.
(2) Anesthetized sheep (n = 6) previously prepared with a lung lymph fistula underwent 2 hr of tourniquet ischemia of both lower limbs.
(3) The most serious complications following operative treatment are retained bile duct calculi (2.8%), wound infection and biliary fistulae.
(4) Eight vagotomy-gastrectomy dogs were studied; 4 had a jejunal fistula, and 4 other dogs without a fistula served as controls.
(5) Both types of oral cleft, cleft palate (CP) and cleft lip with or without CP (CLP), segregate in these families together with lower lip pits or fistulae in an autosomal dominant mode with high penetrance estimated to be K = .89 and .99 by different methods.
(6) Treatment of these fistulas is usually complicated, and the recovery period is prolonged.
(7) This proved that all four fistulas were acquired and that they were probably caused by the catgut ligatures used for ampullary ligation.
(8) In three patients, a vesico-enteric fistula was documented.
(9) The incidence of bronchopleural fistula was 4.2% in group 1 and 15.2% in group 2 (p less than 0.05).
(10) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
(11) The results presented in this paper show that chronic lymphatic fistulae can be established successfully in fetal calves to give access to recirculating lymphocytes.
(12) Direct visualization of the intercavernous sinuses on contrast-enhanced MR images may serve as an ancillary sign for the diagnosis of carotid-cavernous or carotid-dural fistulas near the sella.
(13) than cimetidine and ranitidine, respectively, at inhibiting acid output in betazole-stimulated total gastric fistula dogs.
(14) It is concluded that the massive destruction of the normal anatomy in the lateral semicircular canal may be the morphological basis of a functional endolymphatic fistula for drainage of the endolymphatic hydrops.
(15) The fistula was ligated by an access through the right atrium with good nearest and long-term results.
(16) Anastomotic devascularization has been incriminated in the development of post-operative complications (fistula, stenosis) of circular stapling.
(17) In addition, quantification of fluid output from a fistula may be grossly inaccurate.
(18) As with abdominal abscess drainage, a preexisting fistula may be opacified only after several days of catheter drainage and cannot be predicted at the time of initial aspiration.
(19) Spontaneous aortoduodenal fistula is a rare disease.
(20) Good to excellent results were found in more than 85 percent of them in the control saliva, and there have been no recurrences or fistulae.
Fistular
Definition:
(a.) Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the mastoid bone over the fistular region had to be removed.
(2) The internal fistular ostium as well as the scleral tunnel showed a relatively smooth margin.
(3) Correlation between fistular blood flow and heat elimination was poor (r = 0.70, P less than 0.06), probably because heat elimination due to the fistula takes place mainly from veins, whose pattern varies from patient to patient.
(4) Although fistular formation is an indication of advanced carcinoma, wide resection of the tumor and the associated fistular along with the node-bearing area will result in a reasonable percentage of 5-year survivals.
(5) The majority of the cases were qualified as "difficult and complex urethral strictures" due to: accompanying infections and iatrogenic diseases, 31 of them were fistular stenosis, 37 were multi-operated, half of the total number of the cases suffered upstream repercussions of the stenosis, and 17 cases had an associated pathology.
(6) Histology revealed a suppurative inflammation in the fistular channel and a slight superficial Candida colonisation of the pneumonectomy cavity, of the fistular channel and of adjacent mucous glands of the oesophagus.
(7) Plasma, urine and fistular bile were analyzed for unchanged and metabolized constituents of the administered substances using thin layer chromatography.
(8) The exclusively surgical treatment should be applied as early as possible after the identification of the fistular lesion, in view of preventing more severe local complications and ascendent urinary infections.
(9) In a 20-year-old women having suffered from Crohn's disease for many years, we found granulomatous fistular ulcerations on her right distal lower leg.
(10) Surgical management consisted of 14 cystogastrostomies, 3 cystoduodenostomies, 2 resections of the tail of the pancreas, 1 internal drainage between the fistular segment of the gland and the gastric cavity, and 2 external drainages with a Pezzer tube.
(11) Pelvic actinomycosis with multiple fistular formation is rarely reported in the literature.
(12) The extreme variability of the external orifice, the pathogenic nature of the internal orifice and of the fistular route, as well as the initial discovery of the facial nerve and tonsillectomy in lateral fistulas of the neck are, by the same occasion, brought to mind.
(13) The author has elaborated the method of additional hermetical closing of labioid fistulas of the stomach and jejunum on the basis of creation of a fibrous ring in edges of an exterior fistular orifice.
(14) In chronic studies on fistular dogs, the basal secretion of pancreas and secretion stimulated by the duodenal perfusion of acid (pH 1.5) solutions of albumen and its poly-peptide hydrolysate was studied.
(15) A metabolite was only found in the fistular bile after the injection of iotroxic acid.
(16) Venous collateral circulation has to be included in the fistular circulation.
(17) The only partial occlusion of the peroneal fistula was, in our opinion, due to a technical failure, the balloon was inflated slightly proximal to the fistular orificium instead of in the orificium itself.
(18) Occlusion of the circulation to the hand caused fistular flow rate to be reduced by about half.
(19) The new coaxial flow design eliminates all sources of within needle recirculation, and effectively minimizes within fistula recirculation except at very low fistular flow rates.
(20) Relatively little has been reported about destruction through brachytherapy of mucosa-perforating and extraluminary tumors with probable large vessel involvement causing major hemorrhagic or fistular complications.