What's the difference between gastrostomy and gastrotomy?
Gastrostomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of making a permanent opening into the stomach, for the introduction of food.
Example Sentences:
(1) 16 tube (usually a Baker tube) was inserted by gastrostomy and advanced distally into the colon.
(2) To determine whether long-term enteral feedings can improve nutritional status and lung function parameters in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), 11 patients (8 female, 3 male, age 7 to 23 years) received a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) since February 1988.
(3) On December 14, 1990, the gastrostomy tube which had kept Nancy alive since the accident was removed and she died 11 days later.
(4) Since it was first described Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) has rapidly become the preferred method for gastrostomy tube placement.
(5) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) has become a commonly performed procedure to provide nutritional support to chronically ill patients.
(6) The gastrostomy catheter can be easily removed when treatment is ended and conveniently replaced if accidentally dislodged.
(7) One hundred thirty-six percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEGs) were placed in 126 patients with head and neck malignancies.
(8) Five patients (1.8%) who inadvertently removed their gastrostomy tube within seven days of insertion were treated with immediate replacement using the retrograde string technique, avoiding laparotomy.
(9) With the initial technique, the gastrostomy tube was pulled in by a thread introduced percutaneously into the stomach.
(10) Factors which appeared to predispose to infection in 11 patients included "re-do" operations, concomitant cholecystectomy or gastrostomy, and ruptured abdominal aneurysm.
(11) Ante-thoracal lateral jejunostomy is thought to be indicated to patients with massive injuries of the stomach or complications of gastrostomy.
(12) The stitcher surgical treatment of the lacerations associated with gastrostomy and lengthy parenteral nutrition did not prevent the recurrence of the esophagus-pleural fistula, and an esophagectomy plus cervical esophagostomy was required.
(13) One had a previous partial fundoplication and gastrostomy, and the other had had two pyloroplasties and gastrostomy.
(14) Initially, treatment was by surgical bougienage but following esophageal perforation, 65 balloon dilatations were performed over an 8-month period using a retrograde approach via a feeding gastrostomy without anesthesia or sedation.
(15) PEG as the initial choice for feeding tube placement followed by surgical gastrostomy in patients in whom PEG is unsuccessful is a reasonable approach to nutritional management in appropriate patients.
(16) Recently, alternative percutaneous method for placement of gastrostomy tube have been developed and several large series have been published in the English literatures.
(17) Percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy provides a nonsurgical alternative to enteral feeding.
(18) We have used this technique in six patients with gastro-esophageal reflux, four with gastric perforation, two with gastric outlet obstruction, two with duodenal perforations, and two patients with gastrostomy breakdown.
(19) This was treated by a cyst-gastrostomy following which the patient has remained well without complications for 12 years.
(20) This is a prospective study concerning 101 percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomies (PEG) performed in patients aged from 70 to 98 (83.6).
Gastrotomy
Definition:
(n.) A cutting into, or opening of, the abdomen or the stomach.
Example Sentences:
(1) Esophageal intubation with a Celestin prosthesis combined with Janeway gastrotomy is an excellent method for relieving the symptoms of advanced malignancy of the middle and lower thirds of the esophagus.
(2) Although bursting pressure of laser-fused gastrotomies was significantly lower than that of sutured controls on Postoperative Day 1, measurement on subsequent days showed comparable wound strength between the laser and suture groups.
(3) We recently treated a 19-year-old man in the ED and in the departments of surgery and medicine who required a gastrotomy to remove a large amount of elemental iron inaccessible to removal by emesis, lavage, or gastroscopy.
(4) This technique has been applied to study the effect of a laparotomy or gastrotomy on gastric emptying in the rat.
(5) All patients but three underwent enterotomy, gastrotomy, or enterotomy combined with gastrotomy for bezoar removal.
(6) In the stomach, the FB may pass through the intestinal tract or stop at the pylorus or duodenum; if after 5-6 days there is no evidence of passage in the duodenum, it should be recovered by gastrotomy or endoscopy.
(7) The obstructing ring was excised through a gastrotomy approached by a left-sided thoracotomy.
(8) In one emergency case a gastrotomy was necessary for decompression, and in another gastrectomy was necessary because of gastric gangrene.
(9) Two patients (0.9%) required reoperation due to bleeding from the myotomy site in one and leakage from the gastrotomy site in the other.
(10) On exploratory gastrotomy, the mass was found to consist of hypertrophic rugae resembling cerebral gyri and sulci.
(11) The neonate underwent exploratory laparotomy, excision of the persistent omphalomesenteric duct, gastrotomy, and colostomy.
(12) At laparotomy a large hair ball extending from the Stomach into the duodenum and proximal jejunum was removed through a vertical gastrotomy incision.
(13) Altogether, 186 male Wistar rats were randomised to undergo either a simple gastrojejunostomy or a gastrotomy and sacrificed at eight weekly intervals for 56 weeks.
(14) The controversial issue of enhanced pancreatic carcinogenesis following partial gastrectomy has been explored in male Wistar rats (n = 40) weighing 250-300 g. Animals were randomised to receive either 60% distal gastrectomy with Roux-en-Y reconstruction or gastrotomy and resuture (control).
(15) After a gastrotomy, the gastric mucosa was exposed and rugal folds were pulled over the balloon to create a cylinder.
(16) Tumor enucleation was performed in 1 patients following laparotomy and gastrotomy.
(17) Gastrotomy was successful in allowing the removal of a large amount of the retained corrosive material.
(18) As neither endoscopic alcohol injection nor operative hemostasis by over sewing under gastrotomy were unsuccessful, total gastrectomy was performed.
(19) The authors believe that gastrotomy and surgical removal of tablets is the treatment of choice in massive iron ingestion with development of an "iron bezoar" unresponsive to gastric lavage.
(20) Forty male adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats were anesthetized and standardized ventral midline laparotomies and uniform-length gastrotomies and typhlotomies were performed.