What's the difference between incision and nephrotomy?
Incision
Definition:
(n.) The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.
(n.) That which is produced by incising; the separation of the parts of any substance made by a cutting or pointed instrument; a cut; a gash.
(n.) Separation or solution of viscid matter by medicines.
Example Sentences:
(1) Midsagittal or parasagittal pontomedullary brainstem incisions were performed in 4 cats.
(2) The advantages of the incision through the pars plana ciliaris are (1) easier approach to the vitreous cavity, (2) preservation of the crystalline lens and an intact iris, and (3) circumvention of the corneal and chamber angle complications sometimes associated with the transcorneal approach.
(3) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(4) Measurements were made of the width of the marginal gap for three sites at each of four stages: (1) after the shoulder firing, (2) after the body-incisal firing, (3) after the glaze firing, and (4) after a correction firing.
(5) The reduction in respiratory function in those subjects without an abdominal incision demonstrated that other factors, particularly the influence of a general anaesthesia, need to be taken into account.
(6) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
(7) The advantages of pars plana approach are the small incision and minimal ocular manipulation during surgery.
(8) The operative approach is through an incision above the medial canthus.
(9) The authors recall the advantages of low transcartilage incision in rhinoplasty and, by means of several technical details, illustrate the value of this approach in submucosal dissection.
(10) By making the incision inside the hairline, there is no increase in the height of the pubic hair.
(11) If transportation is unduly delayed, immediate linear incision and suction may be of value.
(12) Following orthodontic treatment the canine's incisal edge occlusion demonstrates the tip and torque present in the appliance that was used.
(13) Middle-ear exploration in six patients revealed abundant granulation tissue; multiple granulomas and acid-fast bacilli were demonstrated on a section of tissue from one patient with a nonhealing mastoidectomy incision.
(14) At surgery, upon incision of the paravertebral muscle fascia, viscous pale fluid was encountered emanating from a foramen in the thoracic lamina.
(15) The sample was divided into three groups based on the degree of pretreatment overbite: openbite subsample--no incisal overlap; overlap subsample--incisal overlap and no incisal contact; contact subsample--incisal overlap with incisal contact.
(16) The usual approach to the inferior orbit has been through a subciliary skin incision and dissection of a skin flap to the orbital rim.
(17) Bojan Krkic had been snuffed out in his central role for Stoke and Hughes’s tweaks would have paid off if Diouf’s finishing had been more incisive.
(18) Compared with a matched group without ultrasonic visualization, the eventual site for uterine incision and morbidity to the mother and fetus were not significantly different.
(19) The incision was then extended toward the opening of the left coronary artery.
(20) Not intimately associated with a nonvital tooth or found to have any communication with the incisive canal.
Nephrotomy
Definition:
(n.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the operative treatment of 21 large longitudinal nephrotomies on account of the existence of cast calculi of the renal calyx are reported and discussed.
(2) It also provides a guide for a more accurate nephrotomy, which facilitates the attainment of negative resection margins during partial nephrectomy.
(3) An angiographic balloon catheter was inserted through a small nephrotomy and directed down the ureter.
(4) Stone clearance was achieved in 19 cases by means of a Gil-Vernet pyelocalycolithotomy, alone (n = 10) or in combination with limited radial nephrotomies (n = 9).
(5) Out of a total of 475 interventions for renal lithiasis, the author has performed only 15 partial nephrectomies, as compared with 118 total nephrectomies and 342 conservatory pyelotomies and nephrotomies.
(6) The coagulating effect of the laser beam in the cases of nephrotomy, polar resection, heminephrectomy, adrenal resection and of cavernotomy was studied and the incision time of the parenchyma measured.
(7) In the assessment of surgical intervention for fully intrarenal stone casts, different kinds of nephrotomies (sectional or multiple partial ones, those supplementing pyelolithotomy or performed in the kidneys with marked parenchyma) should be compared in terms of functional outcomes, severity and incidence of complications (intraoperative or postoperative bleeding from the violated kidney), postoperative urinary fistulas, aggravated renal failure and postoperative mortality.
(8) Segmental nephrotomy is an effective approach to remove a solitary calculus accurately with minimal loss of parenchyma.
(9) A technique for performing antegrade pyelography during nephrotomy is described--puncture with a 21-gauge, 20-cm Cope needle, placement of a 0.018-inch SMG mandril "coat-hanger"-shaped guidewire, with the needle exchanged for a 3-French multi-sidehole dilator.
(10) The perfusate leaves the kidney either via the capsular veins which were divided during renal exposure or through the proposed nephrotomy.
(11) The number and extent of the nephrotomies must be reduced to a strict minimum.
(12) On 14 rabbits, 21 kidneys were subjected to a calycectomy or the tip of the papilla was cut off by caudal nephrotomy.
(13) The results indicated that nephrotomy was the most extensive damage to the kidney.
(14) 6 mongrel dogs received blood-urine autotransfusions after cystotomy and cavotomy (n = 2) as well as after left-side nephrotomy (n = 4).
(15) In 18 out of 29 cases (62%), the stone was pushed back into the renal cavities and was extracted by percutaneous nephrotomy, in the absence of extracorporeal lithotripsy.
(16) It makes visible, during the operation, the line of demarcation between different arterial areas and allows the performance of nephrotomies with minimal trauma to the renal parenchyma and a minimum of subsequent renal destruction by ischaemia.
(17) The sapphire crystal infrared photocoagulator and polyglactin (Vicryl) mesh, two new methods for closure of radial nephrotomies, were assessed in 16 dogs.
(18) Renal stones were removed in 8 cases, multiple nephrotomies being necessary in 2 patients.
(19) Therefore, the right kidney with its small intrarenal pelvis was opened by anatrophic nephrotomy and anastomosed to a segment of transverse colon in two layers.
(20) In 2 cases with more branched-out staghorn calculi and separate fragments, a logitudinal extensive nephrotomy was performed.