What's the difference between perineoplasty and perineorrhaphy?
Perineoplasty
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of restoring an injured perineum.
Example Sentences:
(1) A surgical technique consisting of reconstruction of the perineal body (perineoplasty) with puborectalis interposition and overlapping external sphincteroplasty is described to correct the defect and restore continence.
(2) Of 30 subjects who had undergone an abdominoperineal procedure, eight were continent in contrast to 15 out of 19 patients who had had a perineoplasty (p less than 0.001).
(3) Of 49 children with imperforate anus, 23 underwent an abdominoperineal procedure for a high and seven for a low maliformation, 17 had a perineoplasty for a low and two for a high malformation.
(4) Posterior intersphincteric rectopexy was performed for 6 patients in G3, with descending perineum and faecal incontinence, treated in the same time by perineoplasty (Parks).
(5) mammaplasty -in female-to-male: mammatransformation, vaginal colpohysterectomy and adnectomy and in a second step perineoplasty and construction of a phallic urethra up to the glans of the enlarged clitoris.
(6) The procedure, carried out by the perineal approach, combines a posterior intersphincteric sacro-rectopexy, an anterior perineoplasty via a pre-anal levator myorraphie, a posterior perineoplasty using a post anal repair technique and a mucosal resection aimed at freeing the anal canal.
(7) Among the patients treated by perineoplasty, 66% reported complete or significant alleviation of vulvar pain; 78% of the women noted a significant decrease in dyspareunia.
(8) In the patients with perineoplasty, the anorectal reflex correlated well with continence, but not in patients treated by abdominoperineal rectoplasty.
(9) Therefore, a case of a reduction scrotoplasty (reduction perineoplasty) for idiopathic lymphedema of the penis and scrotum is presented.
(10) In patients with perineoplasty, the ano-rectal reflex correlated well with continence but not in patients treated by abdominoperineal rectoplasty.
(11) Sixteen patients were treated with perineoplasty and all improved significantly; all became functional sexually although eight had previously failed laser therapy.
(12) In the group of patients who underwent perineoplasty, continence was associated with normal mechanical parameters and normal physiologic behavior of the anal sphincter.
(13) Eight patients who failed to achieve continence after postanal repair for idiopathic incontinence were treated by anterior perineoplasty.
(14) This resolutely aggressive treatment reduced mortality of this reputedly serious affection to 2 cases (22%), but morbidity was high and a perineoplasty was necessary in a third of the patients.
(15) A modified perineoplasty, consisting of removal of the vestibule and exteriorization of the vagina to cover the denuded area and to relax a tight perineum, was performed.
(16) Perineoplasty still appears to be the treatment of choice in properly selected individuals.
(17) The tumour was resected and perineoplasty was performed.
Perineorrhaphy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.
Example Sentences:
(1) Treatment preference was for vaginal hysterectomy combined with anterior colporrhaphy and posterior perineorrhaphy (73.5 per cent).
(2) Experience with 51 operations performed by staff, and residents with supervision, has shown the value of certain preoperative and technical steps to avoid complications, including candidate selection; repair of enterocele; retropubic positioning of the bladder neck; repair of all pelvic support defects, and perineorrhaphy.
(3) Twenty-five patients received 10 ml co-trimoxazole (800 mg sulphamethoxazole and 160 mg trimethoprim) and 25 a placebo by intravenous infusion during one hour from the commencement of surgery for vaginal hysterectomy with anterior colporrhaphy and posterior colpo-perineorrhaphy.