What's the difference between hernia and pneumatocele?
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.
Pneumatocele
Definition:
(n.) A distention of the scrotum by air; also, hernia of the lungs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Computed tomography can clearly demonstrate the extent of the pneumatocele, and can show the maxillary pathology and the causative bony defect in the sinus.
(2) The pneumatoceles which appeared early in the course of the pneumonia resolved completely without complications.
(3) With respect to distribution of gas, 53% of patients presented pneumatocele, 38% of patients had pneumoencephalos, and 15% presented a laminar distribution of the gas.
(4) Radiological changes in the chest are prominent and include rapidly developing empyema, pneumonic consolidation, cavitation and pneumatocele formation.
(5) Two infants had pneumococcal pneumonia and bacteremia, complicated by pneumatocele formation.
(6) During the operation, we found that the intracerebral pneumatocele in the right frontal lobe communicated with the ipsilateral ethmoidal sinus, through which extracranial air ingressed and CSF egressed.
(7) A history of previous pneumonia should also be considered evidence to question the diagnosis of congenital respiratory cyst and suggest the possibility of a pneumatocele.
(8) The possible etiology of such a large spontaneous pneumatocele is discussed in the context of a review of the pertinent literature.
(9) In most of the remainder, chronic inflammation and fibrosis precluded differentiation from postinflammatory pneumatocele.
(10) The authors present a case of intracerebral expansive pneumatocele following a ethmoido-sphenoidal fracture by a bullet.
(11) This pneumatocele was unroofed and the fistula was temponaded by pericranial muscles and the Gelfomas sealed by tissue glue.
(12) His medical history also included two episodes of pneumonia complicated by a pneumatocele and empyema, purulent staphylococcal lymphadenitis, recurrent otitis media, and pneumococcal bacteremia.
(13) Scan are good prognostic factors (p less than 0.02 and p less than 0.04 respectively); on the other hand chronic alcoholism (p less than 0.03) and even more postoperative pneumatocele (p less than 0.007) are correlated with a poor result.
(14) Three patients with leucocyte related immune deficiency developed pneumatoceles during acute bacterial pneumonia.
(15) In spite of a chronically infected middle ear, there was no infection of the pneumatocele.
(16) The existence of a fluid level suggests the presence of blood (haemato-pneumatocele).
(17) Differentiation from atopic dermatitis should be made, because a long-term antistaphylococcal regime not only improves skin lesions but hinders the occurrence of lung abscesses and pneumatoceles.
(18) A case of a large intracranial pneumatocele arising from mastoid air cells is reported.
(19) A rare pulmonary manifestation of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or intravenous (IV) drug abuse is upper lobe cystic disease--pneumatoceles in Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and bullous emphysema in IV drug abuse.
(20) A case of community acquired staphylococcal pneumonia is reported with the unusual complication, in an adult, of multiple pneumatoceles.