What's the difference between incision and resection?

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.

Resection


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of cutting or paring off.
  • (n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
  • (2) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
  • (3) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
  • (4) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
  • (5) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
  • (6) Thus, it is effective to improve the survival rate of resected esophageal cancer with our indication based on preoperative staging.
  • (7) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
  • (8) The total resection was possible without opening of the tumor and reconstruction was possible with a tibial graft.
  • (9) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
  • (10) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
  • (11) To minimise the risk of recanalisation (0.2%), 20 mm of vas deferens was resected.
  • (12) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
  • (13) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
  • (14) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
  • (15) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
  • (16) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
  • (17) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
  • (18) The gastroscopic evaluation of the acute type may be extremely difficult, especially after gastric resection, the survey being very poor.
  • (19) On the other hand it does not provide more useful information than the Pugh's score for surgical risk in liver resection.
  • (20) Fifty-four patients had pancreas cancer, confirmed by resection or biopsy in all cases.