(1) Silicone-coated metal clips, suitably fashioned from .062'' Kirschner's wire, are then attached to the hairpiece.
(2) Moderate alopecia, necessitating use of a hairpiece, occurred in six patients; no signs or symptoms of neurotoxicity, ototoxicity, or nephrotoxicity were observed in any patient.
(3) This article describes these alternatives and lists the advantages and disadvantages of newer hairpieces, hair weaving, hair implants, strip grafting, and hair transplantation.
(4) Harry Crane's cravat, hairpiece and comedy specs aren't a million miles away from what Austin Powers wears in Goldmember – perfect for a character who always tries that little bit too hard.
(5) For a start, there is the imagery of legal wigs that satirists have been having fun with ever since Hogarth depicted a row of slumbering judges in their heavy hairpieces in 1758 .
(6) A new procedure for attaching a hairpiece to the scalp is described.
(7) Hairpieces and hair transplantation are my preferred methods for most patients.
(8) For those with burn alopecia of more than 60 percent of the scalp surface, no surgical treatment was effective; the women would often cover their scalps with hairpieces, but the men in our series preferred not to do so.
(9) The office procedure of creating tunnel grafts for attachment of hairpieces is not without complications.
(10) Any observer would say the patient is wearing a "hairpiece" or some other artificial element.
(11) The metal clips are inserted into the skin-lined tunnels and thereby anchor the hairpiece to the scalp.
(12) The most expensive thing we sold was an octopus I made with a bit of help from Tracey – she stuck a hairpiece on it.
Toupet
Definition:
(n.) A little tuft; a curl or artificial lock of hair.
(n.) A small wig, or a toppiece of a wig.
Example Sentences:
(1) These specific complications of the Nissen procedure were not found in the modified Toupet group.
(2) Modifications suggested by A. Toupet help to avoid these inconveniencies.
(3) The authors study 50 case records of hiatus hernia operated according to the modified technic of Nissen or Toupet.
(4) Between September 1983 and March 1991, 251 consecutive patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux resistant to medical treatment underwent posterior hemifundoplication (modified Toupet procedure).
(5) Ninety-five percent of the patients in the modified Toupet group had good or excellent results versus 67% for the Nissen group.
(6) Four patients, however, required reoperation for invalidating recurrences: three following Lortat-Jacob's procedure and one after Toupet's procedure.
(7) Our long-term follow-up, with only 6% of poor results show that the Toupet operation like the Nissen fundoplication is the most effective surgical technique that can be used to correct gastro-oesophageal reflux and has an added advantage: the side effects, particularly the postfundoplication or gas-bloat syndrome are minimal.
(8) Thirty-one patients about to undergo surgery for gastroesophageal reflux were randomized into either a Nissen fundoplication group (12) or a modified Toupet semifundoplication group (19).
(9) The Toupet operation (270 degrees posterior fundoplication) has been performed in 99 patients suffering from symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux secondary to a hiatal hernia.
(10) In 70 patients (8 per cent) sphincter-preserving type Babcock or Toupet operations were performed with case fatality rate about 14 per cent.
(11) Twenty patients underwent a Nissen procedure, 18 had a Toupet procedure, while 14 had a Lortat-Jacob procedure.
(12) The total length of esophagus was significantly increased (p less than 0.01) by Nissen's and Lortat-Jacob's procedures in comparison with Toupet's technique.
(13) Nissen's and Toupet's procedures significantly improved pHmetry scores compared with Lortat-Jacob's procedure; pHmetry was improved, but non significantly, by Nissen's procedure, as compared with Toupet's procedure.
(14) The experience obtained in 90 consecutive Toupet's valvuloplasties performed at the General Surgery Service of the "Calixto Garcia" University Hospital is presented.
(15) The lower sphincter was significantly lengthened by Nissen's and Toupet's procedures as compared with Lortat-Jacob's technique (p less than 0.01).
(16) The results of this study demonstrate that effective gastro-oesophageal reflux control can be achieved with the modified Toupet procedure.
(17) To assess the effects of the Toupet antireflux procedure, we performed in 20 cases oesophageal manometry, intraoperatively and gastro-oesophageal scintiscan in the early postoperative period (3 months: 98 cases) and also later (5 years).
(18) The authors report 25 cases of idiopathic mega-oesophagus treated by Heller's myotomy via an abdominal incision with prevention of gastro-oesophageal reflux by means of Toupet, Dor or Nissen procedures.
(19) Five surgical centers conducted a clinical randomized prospective trial in order to objectively evaluate the two-year results of three anti-reflux procedures regularly performed in France: complete (360 degrees) fundoplication (Nissen), posterior partial (180 degrees) fundoplication (Toupet) and cardiophrenopexy (Lortat-Jacob).
(20) However both procedures are effective in curtailing esophagitis with an improvement of the endoscopic grading in the Nissen group by 91% and 89% in the group undergoing the modified Toupet procedure.