(n.) The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fourteen patients were examined one to four years after cricopharyngeal myotomy that had been carried out because of dysfunction of the pharyngo-esophageal sphincter.
(2) To improve the slightly disappointing voice rehabilitation results of the myotomized laryngectomees, a modified myotomy is proposed.
(3) In addition, we performed cricopharyngeal myotomy to prevent postoperative deglutition disorders.
(4) Combined medical treatment with amiodarone and diltiazem proved to be an effective alternative to surgical myotomy of the bridge.
(5) Although the operative technique for longitudinal ileal myotomy has the benefit of simplicity compared with construction of an ileal reservoir, the latter techniques, which have been used clinically on an extensive basis, are more likely to produce a consistent distension that is suitable for fecal storage.
(6) This finding is of relevance to the controversy surrounding cricopharyngeal myotomy in combination with pouch excision.
(7) Nineteen cases with major resections of the head and neck were treated with laryngeal suspension and cricopharyngeal myotomy in an attempt to allow swallowing function postoperatively and avoid a total laryngectomy.
(8) One of the myotomy wounds was filled with yellow-green material that extended from the base of the tail along the ventrolateral aspect of the rectum and into the peritoneal cavity.
(9) The authors found that having an endoscope in the esophagus during the operation facilitated exposure and was vital to determine the appropriate length of the myotomy.
(10) The procedure used restricted the myotomy to the diseased portion of the esophagus, as demonstrated manometrically.
(11) In one case there was, however, marked dyskinesia, requiring further myotomy.
(12) Three infants born with esophageal atresia that was repaired by end-to-end anastomosis combined with a circular myotomy on the upper segment are reported.
(13) Usually, a repeat myotomy was performed via an abdominal approach if the initial Heller's operation proved a failure, or via a thoracic approach if extensive motor disorders were discovered at manometry.
(14) Treatment, which may be simple excision or myotomy, does not correct the basic motor abnormality that is often associated with the diverticulum.
(15) The importance of the inferior myotomy for speech restoration in total laryngectomized patients following not only primary techniques (speech restoration by tracheo-esophageal puncture during total laryngectomy) but also secondary punctures, is well documented.
(16) The authors tested echocardiography as a method of guiding myotomy, and observed its clinical usefulness as a safe surgical procedure for IHSS.
(17) If healing proved to be satisfactory the procedure might eliminate the need for primary or secondary myotomy or pharyngeal plexus neurectomy to facilitate tracheoesophageal speech.
(18) Clinical improvement in 4 of 5 patients who underwent UES myotomy for severe intractable dysphagia did not always correlate with improvement in manometric and cine studies.
(19) The results of myotomy in children with achalasia are satisfactory but a significant number may develop gastro-oesophageal reflux.
(20) From initial attempts to eliminate the outflow tract obstruction by myotomy, the subvalvular myectomy was developed in which an about 1 cm wide section of muscle is resected; this procedure can be carried out from a transaortic, transatrial or transventricular approach [4, 9, 21, 22, 24, 38, 39, 47].
Surgical
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to surgeons or surgery; done by means of surgery; used in surgery; as, a surgical operation; surgical instruments.
Example Sentences:
(1) A report is presented of 6 surgically-treated cases of recurrent cervical carcinoma.
(2) The Cavitron Ultrasonic Surgical Aspirator (CUSA) is a dissecting system that removes tissue by vibration, irrigation and suction; fluid and particulate matter from tumors are aspirated and subsquently deposited in a canister.
(3) However it is important to recognize these cysts so that correct surgical management is offered to the patient.
(4) All the women had vaginal ultrasound velocimetry studies in both mainstem uterine arteries through the parametrium before the surgical procedure and again after the procedure.
(5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
(6) In 1 of the 3, anterior capsular detachment was also demonstrated radiographically and confirmed surgically.
(7) These authors, therefore, conclude that this modified surgical approach is a viable alternative to the previously described procedures for resistant metatarsus adductus.
(8) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
(9) Differentiation between these two types of lesions is of utmost importance since the surgical approach will be different.
(10) Our experience indicates that lateral rhinotomy is a safe, repeatable and cosmetically sound procedure that provides and excellent surgical approach to the nasal cavity and sinuses.
(11) Compared with conservative management, better long-term success (determined by return of athletic soundness and less evidence of degenerative joint disease) was achieved with surgical curettage of elbow subchondral cystic lesions.
(12) We reviewed our 5-year surgical experience with undescended testes in 295 patients.
(13) Nine of the 12 long-term survivors showed lymph node metastasis and six of the 12 revealed cancer cells at the surgical margins.
(14) He also deals with the incidence, conservative and surgical treatment of osteo-arthrosis in old age and with the possibilities of its prevention.
(15) The successful treatment of the painful neuroma remains an elusive surgical goal.
(16) Wilder Penfield's development of surgical methods for treating focal cerebral seizures, beginning with his early work in Montreal in 1928, is reviewed.
(17) Surgical removal was avoided without complications by detaching it with a ring stripper.
(18) A new surgical procedure for idiopathic priapism has been used successfully in patients.
(19) Schistosomal obstructive uropathy was studied by clinical, laboratory epidemiologic and pathologic analysis in 155 Egyptian patients treated surgically.
(20) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".