(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.
Perforation
Definition:
(n.) The act of perforating, or of boring or piercing through.
(n.) A hole made by boring or piercing; an aperture.
Example Sentences:
(1) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(2) Pitlike surface structures seen in negatively stained whole cells and thin sections were correlated with periodically spaced perforations of the rigid sacculus.
(3) Compliance during dehydration was 7.6 and 12.5% change in IFV per millimeter Hg fall in IFP (micropipettes) in skin and muscle, respectively, whereas compliance in subcutis based on perforated capsule pressure was 2.0% change in IFV per millimeter Hg.
(4) The perforant pathway and fimbria fornix were transected to label afferent fibers to NPY-positive cells.
(5) As to complications they recorded in one case mucosal bleeding after gastrofiberoptic polypectomy and in one case a covered perforation of the sigmoid at the site of colonoscopic polypectomy.
(6) By way of major complications, merely one perforation occurred.
(7) Autopsy data of all patients who received EVS and who died (32 patients, 100%) during this period were available to confirm the diagnosis of perforation.
(8) The results of a prospective inquiry into the aspirin taking habits of a consecutive series of 118 patients admitted to a large general hospital with acute perforation of peptic ulcer are presented.
(9) No perforations, stenoses or thermic lesions after wound healing were observed.
(10) Other serious complications were reservoir perforation during catheterisation in 3 and development of stones in the reservoir in 2 patients.
(11) Major reported complications include hemorrhage, perforation, biliary and pancreatic obstruction, and inflammation with intestinal obstruction.
(12) A retrospective study was conducted into 136 patients who had received surgical treatment for perforated gastroduodenal ulcers, with the view to establishing postoperative lethality and morbidity (comparing simple suturing with definitive ulcer surgery).
(13) Three cases of gastroduodenal perforation and one case of ulceration and extreme thinning of the gastric wall occurred in preterm babies treated with dexamethasone for bronchopulmonary dysplasia.
(14) The energy required for perforation from the external surface to the anterior chamber was the same as the energy required for ab interno perforation.
(15) Cholecystokinin (CCK) as the sulfated (CCK-8S) and unsulfated (CCK-8U) octapeptide sequences, and CR 1409 were administered intraventricularly while the action potential (EAP) in the granular cell layer of the hippocampal dentate gyrus evoked by perforant path stimulation was recorded.
(16) At first the prognosis of perforating keratoplasty improved because of better surgical techniques, so that the number of indications increased.
(17) a) To determine the frequency of perforations in latex surgical gloves before, during, and after surgical and dental procedures; b) to evaluate the topographical distribution of perforations in latex surgical gloves after surgical and dental procedures; and c) to validate methods of testing for latex surgical glove patency.
(18) Perforations of the left atrial or ventricular wall and extravasations of contrast medium during transseptal left heart catheterisation or angiocardiography can be eliminated by replacing the normally used transseptal catheters by Pigtail-catheters.
(19) In the cis-trans axis of the Golgi apparatus the following compartments were observed: (a) On the cis face there was a continuous osmiophilic tubular network referred to as the cis element; (b) a cis compartment composed of 3 or 4 NADPase-positive saccules perforated with pores in register forming wells that contained small vesicles; (c) a trans compartment composed of 1 or 2 TPPAse-positive elements underlying the NADPase ones, followed by 1 or 2 CMPase-positive elements that showed a flattened saccular part continuous with a network of anastomotic tubules.
(20) Dairy pipeline cleaners were the single most common causative substance, injuring ten toddlers (mean age 1.6 years), perforating the esophagus in two.