(n.) The removal of the articular extremity of a bone, or of the ends of the bones in a false articulation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Both apertures were repaired with great caution using individual sutures without resection of the hernial sac.
(2) The remaining case had a calibre persistent submucosal artery within the caecum that was found incidentally in a resection specimen.
(3) After resection of the liver 13 patients of 31 died.
(4) It is suggested that the normal cyclical release of LH is inhibited in PCO disease by a negative feedback by androgens to the hypothalamus or the pituitary, and that wedge resection should be reserved for patients in whom other forms of treatment have failed.
(5) Expressed per centimeter of gut length, total DAO activity was also enhanced by +141% in segment B (P less than 0.05 vs controls) and by +87% in segment C (P less than 0.01 vs controls) of resected rats.
(6) Thus, it is effective to improve the survival rate of resected esophageal cancer with our indication based on preoperative staging.
(7) The use of a major pancreatic resection for the surgical management of necrotizing pancreatitis should be excluded from treatment protocols.
(8) The total resection was possible without opening of the tumor and reconstruction was possible with a tibial graft.
(9) Treatment modalities included: partial temporal bone resection, subtotal temporal bone resection, total temporal bone resection, radical mastoidectomy followed by radiation therapy, radiation therapy alone, and chemotherapy.
(10) Four hundred patients with resectable colon and rectal cancers were operated on by 37 surgeons at 31 institutions.
(11) To minimise the risk of recanalisation (0.2%), 20 mm of vas deferens was resected.
(12) The locations of remaining tumor were the tracheal stump in patients in whom resection was incomplete.
(13) For the 20 patients who received treatment in the latter period (1987-1990), we gave priority to conservative treatment for type T cases that were free from complications, and adopted a treatment method attaching greater importance to the resection of intimal tears.
(14) Staplers were used and therefore the choice between resection or amputation was determined by the degree of loco-regional infiltration of the neoplasm.
(15) Although patients treated with postoperative radiation therapy showed significantly extended survival rates as compared to those receiving surgical resection alone, the glioblastoma recurred within a 2cm margin of the primary site in more than 90% of the patients and conventional external radiation therapy with a doses of 50-60 Gy did not result in local cure.
(16) These results indicate that the routine use of a defunctioning colostomy at anterior resection should now be questioned.
(17) A transurethral prostatic resection for prostatism in a 73 year old man showed a cluster of richly capillarised clear cells originally thought to be indicative of invasive carcinoma.
(18) The gastroscopic evaluation of the acute type may be extremely difficult, especially after gastric resection, the survey being very poor.
(19) On the other hand it does not provide more useful information than the Pugh's score for surgical risk in liver resection.
(20) Fifty-four patients had pancreas cancer, confirmed by resection or biopsy in all cases.
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".