What's the difference between pedicle and pedicule?
Pedicle
Definition:
(n.) Same as Pedicel.
Example Sentences:
(1) 14 patients with painful neuroma, skin hyperesthesia or neuralgic rest pain were followed up (mean 20 months) after excision of skin and scar, neurolysis and coverage with pedicled or free flaps.
(2) But, we found that the Roux-Y type bypass operation using the pedicled jejumun was a safe and uninvasive procedure for a patient with high risk.
(3) Previous work has shown that corticocancellous bone chips placed in a titanium chamber with an arteriovenous vascular pedicle will result in a pre-formed vascularized bone graft.
(4) Our results show that stenosis of about one-third of the original external diameter of the artery and vein of the pedicle in our model did not have any significant influence on the survival of the flap and ligation of the femoral artery distal to the branch to the flap did not produce any statistical difference in the viability of the flap.
(5) The labia minora as a pedicle graft avoids the problems encountered by conventional methods.
(6) The general tendency of gradual CBF reduction from the pedicle to the distal end of all the flaps was observed.
(7) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
(8) The difference from the Hughes flap is that the blood supply is maintained through two tubed pedicles of conjunctiva and Muller's muscle, rather than an apron of conjunctiva.
(9) The pedicle screw systems were always the most rigid.
(10) The ability to transfer comparable local skin can be enhanced by the use of the subcutaneous island pedicle flap.
(11) Anterior transposition of the cervical pedicles and fixation of the myometrium to the anterior vagina ensure that the fitting is solid and in the correct direction.
(12) Within a few weeks sufficient neovascularisation developed to support free transfer of the flaps based on the implanted vein graft pedicle.
(13) Eleven cases are reported of island flaps containing only venous pedicles.
(14) While our experience with this technique is limited, it would appear that the neuromuscular pedicle transfer may play a useful adjunctive role in reanimation of the face in selective cases of facial paralysis.
(15) The injured vertebra is grafted through the pedicle, giving security against late collapse after device removal.
(16) When used as a vascular island flap, either a distal pedicle or a proximal pedicle can be used.
(17) A Spinal Pedicle Finder (S.P.F) has been designed for transpedicular screws and a prototype has been completed.
(18) Biopsy specimens from 38 "de-epithelized" dermal pedicles were examined microscopically.
(19) Five male cadavers were used to evaluate anatomically structures at risk using sacral pedicle screw fixation.
(20) Accordingly, in this group, thoracic tracheal defects were reconstructed by this combined Marlex mesh and pedicled muscle flap.
Pedicule
Definition:
(n.) A pedicel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two pediculated musculocutaneous strips of greater pectoris and greater dorsal muscle were associated for reconstruction.
(2) In two of our patients, these techniques could not be applied, and we transplanted a portion of the small bowel into the neck, with the blood supply to the pedicule being provided by vascular microanastomosis in the cervical region.
(3) Endoscopy showed a smooth, pediculate tumour arising from the right superior lobar bronchus where bronchial biopsy was negative.
(4) The forearm flap is, in selected cases, along with the pediculated regional and distant musculocutaneous flaps, a versatile method for pharyngeal reconstruction.
(5) The pediculate mucous flaps obtained by cleavage of the labium minus are linked with the vascularized tubal flaps from the lumbo-ovarian ligament.
(6) In the irreversible lymphoedema (stage III) and in the elephantiasis (stage IV) the following operations have been developed: ligature of ectatic lymphtrunks, peripheral lymphovenous and lymphadenovenous shunts, skin-flap transplantations, free or pediculated transplantation of the greater omentum, lymphangioplastic operations (Thompson-operation) or excisional operations (Servelle-operation).
(7) So-called "moniblock" excision, an attractive technique for the treatment of carcinomas of the tongue and floor of the mouth, benefits considerably from the use of pediculated flaps which ensure closure of the buccal cavity and thus diminish or even eliminate the risk of septic cervical cellulitis.
(8) The method relies on the use of a pediculated skin flap taken ventrally.
(9) We report a 11 year-old boy with ileo-ileal intussusception due to a pediculated tumor of the bowel wall.
(10) A series of 8 reconstructions using a latissimus dorsi osteo-myocutaneous pediculated flap and the 10th rib helped to define the advantages and disadvantages of this form of complex flap.
(11) The tube was made from a large rectangular flap of the patient's own pericardium, pediculated along the right border, ensuring a vascular supply.
(12) During accidental disinsertion of the papilla during surgery of duodenal ulcer, an isolated, pediculated loop of the small intestine was interposed between the head of the pancreas and the second part of the duodenum.
(13) The skull base was closed with a pediculated pericranial flap and a split-thickness free skin graft underneath.
(14) However, a sufficiently large pediculated perineal skin flap inserted into the "defect" of the posterior vaginal wall provides sufficient width of the vaginal introitus and canal.
(15) The histologic study of the rete testis in these men revealed nodular sessile or pediculate formations which protruded into the rete testis channels.
(16) On the other hand, local removal is justified for benign villous tumours placed above the pouch of Douglas, which may be pediculated or sessile with a narrow base and with normal neighbouring mucosa.
(17) Esophageal reconstruction using the pediculated gastric tube was performed throughout the retrosternal route.
(18) At operation, the "tumour" was seen to be a multicystic mass within the duodenal loop but pediculated under the inferior surface of the pancreas.
(19) The use of pediculated mucosal flaps with a broad, well vascularised base, obtained by cleavage and folding of the labia minora, makes it possible to appropriately and durably cover the first centimeters of the neovagina.
(20) The excision must be large and the pedicule totally removed in order to avoid recurrence.