(1) This paper describes how pulsed ultrasound applied through a combined transducer-aspirator aids in the location and complete aspiration of pleural exudates, particularly loculated ones, which may be difficult to assess fully using clinical techniques alone.
(2) The frequent occurrence of adhesive and obliterative pericarditis with loculated effusions suggests the need for pericardiectomy rather than pericardiocentesis in the patient with rheumatoid arthritis and symptomatic pericardial involvement.
(3) This pattern, which we call "loculated fluid," consists of a well-demarcated area of hyperfluorescence that appears to represent pooling of fluorescein in a compartmentalized space anterior to the choroidal neovascular leakage.
(4) PCD is a safe and effective method for drainage of loculated empyemas as the initial procedure or after STT has failed.
(5) The spatial distribution of transcripts in the anther wall was confined to that region of the anther that surrounds the locule.
(6) We herein reported a case of delayed localized right atrial tamponade caused by loculated intrapericardial hematoma 26 days after aortic valve replacement, which was recognized immediately by transthoracic two-dimensional echocardiography.
(7) In most of the patients, by the third or fourth treatment, they were found to have developed loculated restricted areas with minimal distribution of the agents.
(8) If the pH is less than 7.30, loculation of the pleural space may occur regardless of whether the effusion fulfills the criteria for empyema.
(9) Sonography allows easy identification of pleural fluid and loculation and differentiation from pleural masses; CT is best for characterizing location and composition of pleural masses; MR is somewhat limited, but is best for imaging superior sulcus carcinoma.
(10) All four loculated effusions required drainage with a chest tube for resolution.
(11) Digital exploration of the cavity is important for eliminating any loculations and avoiding complications after the drainage procedure.
(12) This technique was found to be useful in several ways: (1) differentiation of cystic, solid, and complex masses, which is not usually possible with routine roentgenographic evaluation; (2) delineation of free fluid collections from those that are loculated or contained within masses; (3) measurement of the size of both normal and abnormal structures; and (4) confirmation of the abnormal position or absence of organs.
(13) The authors report a case of localised compression of the right atrium due to a loculated intrapericardial haematoma after open heart surgery.
(14) The radiographic appearance of intramural bowel gas can be simulated by extraserosal gas bubbles loculated within adhesions.
(15) CT features included diffuse, circumferential pleural thickening, multiple pleural fluid locules and mediastinal adenopathy.
(16) In 44 cases we found intraabdominal abscesses, in 5 liver cysts with internal bleeding, in 5 postoperative lymphatic cysts, and in 2 cases loculated pleural empyemas.
(17) A case of false-positive liver scan due to loculated ascites is presented in which these maneuvers failed to resolve the problem.
(18) The most common electron microscopic finding was reduplication of the basement membrane with loculated connective tissue.
(19) Locules or cavities within the freeze-dried droplets are thought to be due to the entrapment of air when droplets coalesce.
(20) He was subsequently discovered to have a loculated pleural effusion and pericardial effusion associated with chronic pancreatitis.
Loculi
Definition:
(pl. ) of Loculus
Example Sentences:
(1) Multilocular renal cyst is a distinct renal tumor whose gross external appearance and absence of normal renal tissue within the septa of loculi distinguish it clearly from other renal cystic lesions.
(2) After removal of the endocysts, appropriate suturing of bronchial fistulas and of residual loculi of the ectocysts in the lungs carried out to prevent infection.
(3) It was most similar to R. spinicephalum Campbell 1970 but differed by having fewer proglottids (15 to 26 vs. 36 to 49), smaller peduncle (110 to 146 vs. 330 to 470) and pedicels (100 to 180 vs. 170 to 370), fewer transverse septa (6 to 8 vs. 16 to 17), fewer total loculi per bothridium (22 to 30 vs. 32 to 34) and larger ovarian lobes (148 to 310 vs. 88 to 176).
(4) Histologically, the mass was composed of multiple, fragmented loculi with a crystalline, light red center surrounded by dense, amorphous, mineralized material.
(5) CAT provides not only information of the nature of the lesion but also the number of loculi and the presence of multiple lesions; it is the investigation of choice for follow-up of patients with cerebral abscess treated either by operation or conservatively.
(6) Treatment is by marsupialisation into the peritoneum or external drainage with breakdown of all loculi.
(7) Initial thoracoscopy using a laparoscope under general anaesthesia enabled adequate debridement and breakdown of loculi within the empyema cavity under direct vision.
(8) Interlocular septa may contain either (1) fibrous tissue alone or (2) embryonic tissue separating adjacent loculi.
(9) It consist of several loculi lined with coronet cells and is bathed with blood from surrounding sinusoids.
(10) It differs from R. scorzai in number of bothridial loculi, testes per proglottid, and proglottids per strobila; by having quadrate rather than canoe-shaped bothridia; and by parasitizing Potamotrygon magdalenae rather than P. hystrix.
(11) The new species is distinct by virtue of possessing 94-152 loculi per bothridium--no other known species has more than 78.
(12) This species differs from the 7 other known species of Calliobothrium in its possession of 2 rather than 3 posthook loculi.
(13) The generic diagnosis of Calliobothrium is emended to include this species with 2 rather than 3 posthook loculi.
(14) Loculi contained a light red crystalline substance, surrounded by amorphous basophilic mineralized material.
(15) The standard management of puerperal abscess by incision, breaking down loculi, and dependent drainage may still be used, but the author has shown that an alternative approach--curettage and primary obliteration of the cavity under antibiotic cover--can give equally good results with reduced morbidity.
(16) All of these species have bothridia with medial longitudinal septa, a constriction at mid-bothridium, and, primitively, at least 42 loculi per bothridium and 17-22 testes per proglottid.
(17) Loculi were separated by variably-dense bands of a connective tissue stroma.
(18) One ventriculitis showed polycystic loculi with abnormal septa in the advanced stage.
(19) Both new species can be distinguished from all others by the number and arrangement of bothridial loculi, position of the genital pore, and testes number and distribution.
(20) Initial thoracoscopy under general anesthesia enabled full debridement and division of loculi within the empyema cavity under direct vision.