What's the difference between gangrene and necrose?
Gangrene
Definition:
(n.) A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality; but now applied to mortification of the soft parts in any stage.
(v. t. & i.) To produce gangrene in; to be affected with gangrene.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clostridium septicum is a bacterial species associated with gas gangrene in both humans and animals.
(2) This paper details the first case report of a patient with fulminant, gangrenous, ischemic colitis caused by polyarteritis nodosa which was successfully treated surgically.
(3) Phenol chemical lumbar sympathectomy is an additional aid in the management of ischaemic rest pain and incipient gangrene.
(4) Most of the patients were delayed cases showing mild to severe degrees of trophic, sensory and motor disturbances in the limbs without gangrene.
(5) Fournier gangrene is a disease which primarily affects adults.
(6) Our experience indicates that the lower gastrointestinal tract should be considered as a possible cause of infection in all cases of synergistic gangrene of the scrotum and penis.
(7) CAA is now thought to play a key role in several multiple etiology disease syndromes; hemorrhagic syndrome; aplastic anemia, gangrenous dermatitis, hemorrhagic anemia syndrome, hemorrhagic aplastic anemia syndrome, anemia dermatitis and blue wing disease.
(8) Two of the three patients (both females) in whom clott migration occured in only one limb developed below-knee gangrene of the affected side.
(9) Patients with sigmoid volvulus with no clinical evidence of gangrene were selected for study, and all were given a trial of non-operative reduction by proctoscopy and passage of a rectal tube.
(10) Acute cholecystitis was found at operation in 33 patients (28%), empyema in nine (7.6%), gangrene of the gallbladder in three (2.5%), and 24 patients (20.3%) were found to have common bile duct stones.
(11) A 28-year-old man developed gangrene of a foot leading to a below-the-knee amputation.
(12) The prognosis was better in patients with gas gangrene after trauma than in patients with gas gangrene resulting from vascular insufficiency or malignant tumours.
(13) Three successfully managed cases of Fournier's gangrene, all with diabetes, are reported.
(14) In six of the ten patients, the presenting complaints were ascribable to incipient gangrene of the toes and several of these patients additionally developed occlusion of tibial and larger arteries while under our observation.
(15) Salient clinical findings in this case include DIC associated with extensive ecchymosis and subsequent gangrene of the skin, thrombotic complications that began on the third day of life.
(16) Lumbar sympathectomy appears to be most beneficial in the management of gangrene of the toe with a limb salvage rate of 75 per cent.
(17) A case is described with multiple gangrene of the fingers of a female, aged 55, with confirmed cirrhosis of liver and diabetes mellitus.
(18) The positive effect of the Defluina-medication on the initial--partly severe--varicose ulcera, with gangrenous alterations, has to be pointed out.
(19) Eleven patients had bacterial gangrene of the foot; two of these patients were less than 23 years of age, and five patients were not known to have had diabetes previously.
(20) Five year cumulative primary patency was 71% overall, 75% in patients with disabling claudication, 61% in those with rest pain and 46% in those with gangrene.
Necrose
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To affect with necrosis; to unergo necrosis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Several stages in its histogenesis may be discerned: I. focal necroses of hepatic cells associated with their invasion with lister Listeria; 2. appearance of cellular elements around the foci of necroses with subsequent formation of granulemas consisting mainly of leucocytes and lymphoid cells; 3. development of necrobiotic changes in the central areas of granulemas with concomitance of exudative processes; 4. organization of necrotic foci with subsequent scarring.
(2) Anterior necroses present a myocardial fixation defect and a dysfunction of the left ventricle which are more severe than in inferior necroses.
(3) The thrombosis was complicated by origination of necroses of the adrenal cortex and adrenals, hypophysis, by ulcers in the stomach and intestine.
(4) To prevent bone and cartilage necroses, it is recommended to restrict the individual doses to 1.8 to 2 Gy each.
(5) Five patients developed soft tissue necroses secondary to the use of dentures.
(6) Experimental studies on the anterior tibial muscle of rats showed that the major bulk of the proximal part of the muscle by preservation of neuro-vascular bundle survived and was histologically viable, whereas, the major bulk of the distal part of the muscle replaced as a free graft necrosed and was replaced by fibrosis.
(7) Postmortem examination revealed: a congestive oesophagitis; a necrosing gastritis involving all the stomach wall; diffuse hepatic steatosis; skin lesions with vascular congestion and dermoepidermal detachment; discrete subepicardial congestive lesions.
(8) Marked processes of alteration were represented by necroses with formation of sequesters, destruction of bone marrow in combination with resorption of the damaged elements.
(9) Some signs, meaningful for anaplasia, such as very high cell density and number of mitoses, were found to be associated, whereas other signs usually considered indicative of anaplasia, such as endothelial hyperplasia, glomeruli, and necrosers, were not.
(10) Thioacetamide-induced rat cirrhosis was characterized by single-cell necroses, fibrosis, nodular parenchyma, decrease in parenchymal volume density and an increase in liver weight per body weight so that the total amount of parenchyma was not altered.
(11) The number of mitoses is a very important prognostic factor in supratentorial cases, whereas endothelial proliferations and necroses are much less important as prognostic factors than in gliomas.
(12) Immunocytochemical staining for C5b-9 was found to represent a most sensitive tool for detection of ischemic myocardial lesions, permitting easy detection even of single cell necroses.
(13) The myocardium was studied by light microscopy for fresh necroses.
(14) Since the emergence of central necroses precedes this drop in energy-rich phosphate, the data may suggest that energy metabolism is not directly involved in the development of necrosis in the spheroids investigated.
(15) Histologic examination of the liver has revealed hepatocyte necroses, lobular necroses predominating in the patients with the replication phase markers (90.9 percent) and periportal necroses in those with the integration phase markers (17.5 percent).
(16) Since 1986, 7 necrosed lunate bones (Kienbock disease) in 7 patients were replaced by the nearby pisiform bone with a pedicle of its own nutrient vessels and tendon of the flexor carpi ulnaris.
(17) By 24-48 hours, animals that received HpD and light of either wavelength had partially or completely necrosed tumors.
(18) 5% of the cases with shock showed infarction-like necroses of the bone marrow and a further 23% necroses of small cell groups.
(19) -- 9 cases of necrosis of the septum with rupture, of which only 3 had a syndrome of adiastole; three of these necroses were posterior, and post-mortem examination in two of them confirmed that there were indeed major lesions in the posterior wall of the right ventricle.
(20) The occurrence of four necroses of the tips, which may be considered as a typical complication, may in all probability be reduced by a more sophisticated surgical technique.