What's the difference between hernia and omphalocele?
Hernia
Definition:
(n.) A protrusion, consisting of an organ or part which has escaped from its natural cavity, and projects through some natural or accidental opening in the walls of the latter; as, hernia of the brain, of the lung, or of the bowels. Hernia of the abdominal viscera in most common. Called also rupture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The aetiological factors concerned in the production of paraumbilical and epigastric hernias have been reviewed along structural--functional lines.
(2) A paraesophageal hernia may be life-threatening and requires surgical correction when diagnosed.
(3) In all cases Richter's hernia was at the internal inguinal ring.
(4) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(5) Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients.
(6) Four presented with diaphragmatic hernia and died in the neonatal period.
(7) Spigelian hernias continue to be misdiagnosed preoperatively, often forgotten in the differential diagnosis, as physical examination is usually of little benefit.
(8) The hernia ring, which was located medially to the suture line of previous herniorraphy, had strangulated the herniated bladder.
(9) It seems likely that diaphragmatic hernia is a non-specific consequence of several teratological processes.
(10) The majority of the scans revealed a reduction of the herniation, while 16 of the patients still had a hernia.
(11) This, in principle, is similar to creating an irreducible hernia.
(12) A horse with a parietal hernia and a horse with intestinal stragulation were treated surgically; in the latter, the involved intestine was resected.
(13) One goat anesthetized with thiamylal sodium, xylazine, and halothane for repair of an abominal hernia, and 7 of 29 goats similarly anesthetized for an experiment unrelated to considerations of anesthesia, developed signs of hepatic failure within 24 hours of anesthesia.
(14) The most frequent causes of failure of nucleolysis were lateral osseous stenosis (19 cases) and sub-ligamentous hernia (17 cases), apparently due to the ineffectiveness of the enzyme.
(15) Peritoneography was performed in 122 patients clinically suspected of hernia without definite palpation findings.
(16) The sexual adjustment of 91 married men (ranging in age from 51 to 77) who had undergone either transurethral prostatectomy or inguinal hernia repair was compared using the same measures and experimental design.
(17) Developmental A. Bochdalek hernia (pseudocavity) IV.
(18) It use will enlarge the choices of procedures best suited to the needs of a specific hernia.
(19) diastasis recti abdominis with pericardial hernia, ventral defect of the diaphragm, partial defect of the sternum, and tetralogy of Fallot.
(20) We have studied the epidemiology of inguinal hernias in preterm infants.
Omphalocele
Definition:
(n.) A hernia at the navel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cloacal exstrophy, centered on the maldevelopment of the primitive streak mesoderm and cloacal membrane, results in bladder and intestinal exstrophy, omphalocele, gender confusion, and hindgut deformity.
(2) As more patients have been evaluated abnormal increases have been found in other defects, such as omphalocele, duodenal atresia, and congenital nephrosis.
(3) Six children (4 with omphalocele, 2 with gastroschisis) were successfully treated surgically.
(4) In omphalocele, the most important factors affecting mortality were the presence of other associated abnormalities and low birth weight.
(5) Out of the 209 aborted fetuses there were 42 anencephalic, 38 sublethal defects of the central nervous system, 20 sublethal and lethal defects of the urinary system, 13 cases of omphalocele, 30 cases of trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) and 26 aneuploids.
(6) The mortality rate of 71% in omphalocele were related to large defects, rupture of the sac and associated cardiac malformations.
(7) The advantages accruing from the prenatal diagnosis of gastroschisis and omphalocele are outlined.
(8) Of the remaining 36 women, one had fetal omphalocele.
(9) We treated a female newborn with CDH, HLHS, and omphalocele.
(10) Eleven of the 12 infants with small omphaloceles survived with minimal neonatal complications.
(11) The host had tetralogy of Fallot and omphalocele containing the parasitic kidney and bowel.
(12) In the second case a small omphalocele associated with exstrophy of the cloaca was not accompanied by an abnormal AFP increase.
(13) The fetus was shown on ultrasonography to have an omphalocele and a short femur length.
(14) Construction of an external silo dressing over the intact omphalocele membrane allows complete reduction of the giant omphalocele with enlargement of the abdominal cavity before surgical intervention, so that primary closure of the abdominal wall can be achieved.
(15) This maternal age effect is also found with gastroschisis, but not with omphalocele, and may indicate etiological or pathogenetic similarities between gastroschisis and the two former groups of defect.
(16) Increased mortality correlated with the presence of other major anomalies (79% mortality), with birth weight less than 1500 gm (80%), and with omphaloceles (65%).
(17) The authors present a case of congenital intraperichardic diaphragmatic hernia and omphalocele, diagnosed on post birth day 11.
(18) Her large omphalocele was initially covered with skin flaps as a newborn, and at 3 years of age the resulting ventral hernia was completely repaired using the staging technique described by Schuster, and modified by Plzak and Gross.
(19) Four cases of pseudoomphalocele and one case of true omphalocele are presented.
(20) A retrospective study of 92 cases of omphalocele over a 25-year period reveals an overall mortality rate of 37%.