(1) The cause of death after a successful operation was haemorrhage into the abdominal cavity from a ruptured spleen, as a result of a new lienal infarction after embolization of a portion of the myxoma into the lienal artery, 24 before the operation.
(2) The main features of the lymphatic down flow ways of this colon segment justify extended exeresis operations as described by Madden and Welti: they also mention colon resection, removal in one block of the spleen and the caudal corporal portion of the pancreas with the lymph node stations of the pancreatico-lienal group invaded by cancer.
(3) Despite this in the authors' opinion implantation of lienal tissue into the omentum, corresponding to one third of the original spleen, is a suitable therapeutic method even in district hospitals.
(4) The pancreatico-digestive anastomosis is especially then endangered by dehiscence when, following resections due to carcinomas, a healthy lienal pancreatic rest has to be connected to the intestine.
(5) The second case presented--a spontaneous lienal rupture, is very rare.
(6) In 12 patients with isolated lienal vein stenosis, no hemorrhage had occurred so far.
(7) The main manifestations of visceral leishmaniasis in hamsters are cachexia, lienal syndrome, polyglandular deficiency on the background of hypoplasia of lymphoid tissue and defects of the system of monocytic phagocytes.
(8) The syndrome "urgency of lienal origin" during a pregnancy consists of two syndromes--violent spontaneous pain in the left hypochondrium or in the epigastrium, shortly followed by haemorrhagic shock.
(9) The authors evaluated in an experimental study the necroptic appearance of the peritoneal cavity, the microscopic character of the scar and histological appearance of tissue after treatment of an induced hepatic and lienal rupture in 28 rabbits and 28 baby pigs, using fibrin tissue glue.
(10) After evaluation of the type of injury it is necessary to select treatment which preserves a maximum of lienal tissue.
(11) Purposeful study of the arteriovenous angioarchitectonics in the hepato-lienal system, the character and degree of disorders of the portal-hepatic hemodynamics, and the peculiar features of collateral circulation before and after various radiologically-guided interventions allowed the authors to elaborate an orderly system of stage-by-stage endovascular treatment of patients suffering from portal hypertension.
(12) It facilitated the healing of lienal wounds without any suturing and produced neither local nor general disadvantageous results.
(13) Isolated lienal disease is treated by partial or segmental resection.
(14) On necropsy extensive arteritis of the coronary vessels with aortitis was revealed and with arteritis of the small intramyocardial and lienal arteries and arteries in the renal pelvis.
(15) A patient is presented in whom multiple lienal circular foci are seen 25 years after application of a thorium-containing contrast medium for vascular visualization, over and above the well-known characteristic ThO2 deposits in the liver and spleen.
(16) The authors give an account of causes of splenomegaly and their own experience with the diagnosis of anomalies, cystic processes, tumours, injuries and obstructions of the lienal vessels.
(17) Due to a short, maximal 6 days lasting blockade of the exocrine pancreas secretion with fibrin the atrophy respectively the fibrosis of the exocrine lienal pancreas segment was--contrary to the pancreas duct occlusion with prolamin--avoided; also the endocrine function was preserved.
(18) Conservative treatment is suitable only in isolated lienal injury with the patient in a stable haemodynamic state.
(19) This effect is due to transient normalization of the lienal hypersequestration.
(20) The yield from the used lienal human pancreas were about 80 000 islets.
Spleen
Definition:
(n.) A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known.
(n.) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
(n.) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
(n.) A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
(v. t.) To dislke.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the early phase of the sensitization a T-cell response was seen in vitro, characterized by an increased spleen but no peripheral blood lymphocyte reactivity to T-cell mitogens at the same time as increased reactivity to the sensitizing antigen was detected.
(2) Most of the radioactivity in spleen cells from these rats were associated with antigen-reactive cells which formed rosettes specifically with HO erythrocytes.
(3) Reactive metabolites which suppress splenic humoral immune responses are thought to be generated within the spleen rather than in distant tissues.
(4) Pokeweed mitogen-stimulated rat spleen cells were identified as a reliable source of rat burst-promoting activity (PBA), which permitted development of a reproducible assay for rat bone marrow erythroid burst-forming units (BFU-E).
(5) Release of 51Cr was apparently a function of immune thymus-derived lymphocytes (T cells) because it was abrogated by prior incubation of spleen cells with anti-thymus antiserum and complement but was undiminished by passage of spleen cells through nylon-wool columns.
(6) Moreover, the data showed for the first time that DNA synthesis in the bone marrow and spleen and colon were markedly statistically significantly stimulated at specific times after treatment.
(7) High radioactivities were observed in the digestive organs, mesenteric lymphnodes, liver, pancreas, urinary bladder, fat tissue, kidney and spleen after oral administration to rats.
(8) Degradation of both viral and host DNA with micrococcal nuclease and spleen phosphodiesterase indicated that CdG was incorporated primarily into internal positions in both DNAs.
(9) Proliferation of quiescent hematopoietic stem cells, purified by cell sorting and evaluated by spleen colony assay (CFU-S), was investigated by measuring the total cell number and CFU-S content and the DNA histogram at 20 and 48 hours of liquid culture.
(10) In investigation of AMLR composed of peripheral blood cells and spleen cells of gastric cancer patient, AMLR on splenic non-T cells as a stimulator was significantly suppressed compared with peripheral blood non-T cells as a stimulator.
(11) During the development of Shvets' leukosis, the weight of spleen and lymph glands and their lymphocyte content change enormously while the number of plasmocytes rises exponentially.
(12) A constellation of histologic lesions was identified in brain (diffuse meningoencephalitis with bilaterally symmetrical thalamic necrosis), liver (pericholangiohepatitis), lung (pneumonitis), and spleen (lymphoid hyperplasia); this tetrad is apparently unique to this model system.
(13) The bursa of Fabricius, thymus glands and spleen of chickens were also shown to express mRNA coding for ANP.
(14) For routine use, 50 mul of 12% BTV SRBC, 0.1 ml of a spleen cell suspension, and 0.5 ml of 0.5% agarose in a balanced salt solution were mixed and plated on a microscope slide precoated with 0.1% aqueous agarose.
(15) Polyadenylic-polyuridylic acid complexes (poly A:U) at the 1-5 mu g level, were mitogenic for spleen cells when given intravenously to normal Balb or cortisone-treated mice.
(16) Mixing experiments were performed to test the putative inhibitory effects of allotype-suppressed spleen cells from the first adoptive transfer (stage I) on the antibody response of normal spleen cells in a second adoptive transfer (stage II).
(17) After birth, it was in the liver and spleen up to 6 weeks af age, and thereafter it was present only in the bone marrow.
(18) Only the group that received 3R spleen cells treated with anti I-Jb monoclonal antibody and C' had no suppressed PFC.
(19) Prior incubation of these antigens with test spleen cells in the agar gel effictively inhibited development of the vibriolytic plaques, regardless of antibody class.
(20) Four hours after injection radioactivity was identified in the spleen, liver, and bone marrow.