(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.
Loculus
Definition:
(n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa.
(n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament.
Example Sentences:
(1) 64 subjects with hiatus hernia (34 sliding, 22 mixed, and 8 of paraesophageal variety) were divided into 3 groups according to the transverse diameter of the thoracic loculus and examined by 133Xe-radio-spirometry in the supine position.
(2) The following guidelines are suggested for selecting nonoperative treatment: (1) clinically stable patients; (2) instrumental perforations detected before major mediastinal contamination has occurred or perforations with such a long delay in diagnosis that the patient has already demonstrated tolerance for the perforation without the need for surgery; and (3) esophageal disruptions well contained within the mediastinum or a pleural loculus.
(3) The disease ran a protracted course for a total of 20 months before she died from sudden rupture of an abscess loculus into the ventricular system.
(4) The loculus had formed as a consequence of leakage of CSF through a dural tear caused by the knife.
(5) We report a case of this condition in which there was a separate loculus lined by gastric epithelium.
(6) MR findings highly suggestive of an endometrial cyst included adhesions to the surrounding organs (e.g., loss of clear margin of the uterine body and tethered appearance of the rectum); a distinct low-intensity zone surrounding a cyst loculus on both T1- and T2-weighted images produced by a thick fibrous capsule; loculus contents with short T1 and long T2 values, attributed to hemorrhagic fluid; and prominent low intensity (shading) within a loculus on T2-weighted images, the mechanism of which is yet to be determined.
(7) The average values of the length (in the direction of uterine long axis) and width (mesome-trial-antimesometrial axis) in the loculus of the gravid uterus were 0.39 cm and 0.56 cm at 6 days, and 2.42 cm and 1.74 cm at 15.5 days (partiurition), respectively.
(8) We interpret these data to be consistent with the idea that the two imported proteins that function in the water oxidation step of photosynthesis and are localized in the loculus (the space within the thylakoid vesicles) undergo two-step processing.
(9) In six of the eight patients with an abnormal ultrasonogram a tiny collection of fluid was identified in the gallbladder fossa; in two patients retained intraperitoneal stones were identified (one of these patients also had a small fluid loculus); and one patient had a small amount of free fluid in Morrison's pouch.
(10) The fourth angioma was in the Brachium pontis and reached to the Flocculus and Loculus quadrangularis inferior.
(11) Significant correlations were found between the diameter of the thoracic loculus and the reduction in these vairables of the affected lung.
(12) There were two modes of proliferation of unilocular fat cells: "loculus-dividing" cell division, in which the single loculus of fat in the dividing cell was broken down into multiple droplets and distributed evenly between the daughter cells, and "loculus-preserving" cell division, in which the loculus in the dividing cell was minimally broken down and inherited with its shape preserved by one of the daughter cells with the other getting only a small number of fine lipid droplets.
(13) The shape of the loculus during the gestation was ovoid (mesometrial-antimesometrial axis) until the end of 10 days converged to the spherical form and thereafter changed gradually to the ovoid from in the direction of uterine long axis contraly to the previous days.
(14) In one child a loculus of uno-pacified dialysate was readily identified, confirming sonographic findings that suggested an inflammatory pseudocyst.
(15) Evacuation of this loculus resulted in some neurological improvement.
(16) In the golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) the gestation period and the loculus size of the gravid uterus from day 6 to day 15.5 (parturition) of gestation as well as the weight, width (umbilcus-black) and lenght (crown-rump) of the embryos from day 9 to the parturition were measured.
(17) It is postulated, that these enzymes derived from the tapetum catalyze the different steps of phenylpropanoid metabolism at or in cavities of the exine after their transfer into the loculus.
(18) The contents of another loculus were separated in a pollen and tapetum fraction.
(19) Myelography and CT revealed a compressive extradural lesion shown at exploratory operation to be a loculus of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF).
(20) Plasmodesmata initially connect the tapetal cells to each other, the pollen mother cells, and the inner loculus wall cells.