(a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.
(a.) See Ileac, 1.
Example Sentences:
(1) Transluminal iliac angioplasty is a valuable adjunct to distal bypass surgery by improving arterial inflow without the requirement for major aorto iliac surgery.
(2) Operations were performed on 5 patients with isolated atherosclerotic aneurysms of the iliac arteries, who accounted for 10.9% of patients with aneurysms of vessels treated at the Vascular Department of the Novgorod Regional Hospital from 1983 to 1990.
(3) Most patients had pulmonary metastases, two had bony metastases, and one had metastases in the iliac nodes.
(4) The overall immediate angiographic and clinical success was 85% (89% in iliac lesions and 81% in femoropopliteal lesions; 100% in stenoses and 70% in occlusions).
(5) 99mTc-MAA accumulation was seen in the left lobe of the liver in a patient with occlusion of the IVC and common iliac veins.
(6) Conventional lymphography still yields the best results in differentiating between primary lymphedema with aplasia of the aorto-iliac collectors and a secondary form due to neoplastic disease.
(7) Temporary hypertensive increases in blood pressure, or variations in blood pressure when there was an already existing hypertension, in which the blood pressure either moved within the limits of hypertensive blood pressure values or temporarily returned to normal, occurred in 129 men ages 23-85, in whom repeated measurements of the blood pressure and pulse wave rate (PWG) were carried out in the aorta and iliac artery in the course of a longitudinal study over years.
(8) The talus was revascularized with a vascularized corticocancellous iliac crest bone graft.
(9) Based on combined quantitative and qualitative analysis of Doppler signals sampled at the common femoral and popliteal artery, the aorto-iliac segments and the femoro-popliteal segments were evaluated separately.
(10) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
(11) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).
(12) The use of the pectoralis major muscle only flap in conjunction with a free iliac crest bone graft for reconstruction of the mandible is described.
(13) Additional reconstruction of the "donor" limb arteries and dilatation of the iliac artery improve circulation in the "donor limb", which makes it possible to undertake cross femoral-femoral shunting in patients with a high risk of aorto-femoral reconstruction in atherosclerotic affection of the "donor" limb.
(14) After a phlebitic occlusion of the right superficial femoral and external iliac veins he had been operated on twice for varicose veins.
(15) In severe post-partum hemorrhage coming from the peri-uterine regions supplied by the internal iliac arteries, only BLILA may be useful when local surgical hemostasis is ineffective or impossible.
(16) The cathetertips are selectively introduced from both sides either into a lateral sacral vein, an internal iliac vein or into a lumbar ascending vein.
(17) Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) was found in all patients, more frequently in the right calf and in the left iliac veins in 20 patients (55%).
(18) The percentage of metastasis to the external iliac, internal iliac and obturator lymph nodes was 55%, 83% and 82%, respectively.
(19) After two years of growth hormone therapy, height, sitting height, bi-acromial and bi-iliac diameter increased from -3.7, -2.9, -1.7 and -1.2 to -1.3, -2.5, -0.6 and +0.5 z scores, respectively.
(20) This report draws attention to a group of lymph nodes that lie in proximity to the posterior iliac crest.
Ilium
Definition:
(n.) The dorsal one of the three principal bones comprising either lateral half of the pelvis; the dorsal or upper part of the hip bone. See Innominate bone, under Innominate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors describe the surgical technique used to obtain (by anterior and posterior access) autoplastic bone from the ilium in 186 oncological cases.
(2) For the sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium, however, ossification in A2 fetuses increased to the levels observed in the PF and C groups.
(3) A unique feature of the AF-associated musculoskeletal syndrome is osteolytic lesions that occur most frequently in the clavicle, sternum, long bones, and ilium.
(4) Ten fresh human cadaveric spine specimens including from L1 to sacrum (six specimens) and ilium (four specimens) were studied.
(5) The necrotic area of the femoral head is filled up with a pedicle bone graft, which is apart from the spina iliaca and supplied from the art, circumflexa ilium profunda.
(6) Estimates of the percentage of trabecular bone volume (%TBV) deviated systematically, with variation of the biopsy site around the usual location, increasing in magnitude from the anterior to the posterior ilium.
(7) In patients with injury to the sacro-iliac joints or of the sacrum, the extent of the injury and the degree of pelvic instability was better shown by CT. All other bony lesions, such as fractures of the ilium, pubis, ischium or the symphysis could be diagnosed adequately by simple radiographs.
(8) The press-fit component without screws demonstrated the greatest motion equaling 162 microns at the ilium, 97 microns at the publis, and 54 microns at the ischium.
(9) Results are reported for the distribution of 239Pu in the third lumbar vertebra, a central caudal vertebra, the right ilium and the right femur.
(10) Sites of involvement included the pubis in three patients, the ilium in two patients, and the ischium in one patient.
(11) The so far unexplained picture of a vascular canal in the roof of the acetabulum corresponds to the canal leading into the body of the ilium.
(12) Increasing the protein content of the alcohol diet from 18% (Diet A1) to 25% (Diet A2) significantly increased ossification of the ulna, sternum, humerus and ilium-ischium.
(13) A case of Fusobacterium nucleatum osteomyelitis of the right ilium [correction of ileum] in a child without apparent risk factors is described.
(14) It is based on the concept that bone grafting of the pseudoarthrosis and an intertransverse fusion using small fesh autogenous concellous grafts from the ilium will prevent further slip.
(15) PAO seems not to have been previously reported in the ilium.
(16) During aircraft accident investigations we compared premortem anteroposterior abdominal radiographs with postmortem specimen radiographs of the ilium, with particular attention directed to the nutrient groove of the ilium.
(17) The CT scan allowed rapid localization of an occult abscess and destructive changes in the left ilium secondary to osteomyelitis and guided surgical treatment.
(18) 145 women showing clinical and radiological signs of involutional osteoporosis of the spine were biopsed at the ilium for histomorphometric analysis of bone mass including trabecular bone volume and parameters reflecting the spatial distribution of bony elements (mean trabecular plate thickness, density and separation).
(19) It is not appropriate to reconstruct the pelvic ring after resection limited to the anterior part of the pelvis but it is indicated after resections of the whole of the ilium, particularly in children to avoid shortening of the limb with pelvic shift.
(20) In older children in whom rigidity of the pubic symphysis did not permit a sufficient amount of acetabular tilt the acetabulum had to be isolated from the rest of the pelvis by a triple osteotomy which consisted of, in addition to the osteotomy of the ilium, osteotomies of the superior pubic ramus and the ischium or the inferior pubic ramus.