(n.) A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or the like, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to form an issue; also, the issue so formed.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the prevalence of postoperative complications was higher with the seton procedure (P < .001).
(2) More liberal use of the seton in the treatment of horseshoe abscesses and fistulas is advocated.
(3) The seton, with supplemental agents, maintained the intraocular pressure (IOP) within a therapeutic range for 6 months, until the time of death from cardiac complications.
(4) Primary healing, after removal of the seton, occurred in 25 of the 32 patients (78 per cent).
(5) Twenty-one patients with high transsphincteric fistulas treated by the seton technique were re-examined after two to 14 years.
(6) One patient developed a leak from the pouch necessitating loop ileostomy (J) and one patient had a low pouch vaginal fistula successfully treated by a seton (W).
(7) Hobbs is the dean of the Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey.
(8) This result is inferior to those quoted in the literature with the use of other types of setons, and especially to the results of Dr. Antonio Mendez who used a similar implant.
(9) The surgical management of complex fistula-in-ano can be difficult, and often requires a seton suture or a colostomy.
(10) For this reason such high fistulae should be progressively laid open in staged procedures, after encircling the sphincters for some weeks with a seton.
(11) We use a common office implement, the rubber band ligator, to manage the seton in an outpatient setting.
(12) We compared the effect of seton (White pump shunt) surgery (16 eyes) with that of trabeculectomy and 5-fluorouracil (31 eyes) in treating 38 Asian patients with medically uncontrollable neovascular glaucoma.
(13) Seton fistulotomy with counter drainage has become the authors' operative procedure of choice for horseshoe abscess fistula.
(14) Over an 8-year period five patients with suprasphincteric fistula and two with extraspincteric fistula a primary transsphincteric track were treated with fistulotomy, using delayed seton technique.
(15) Minor incontinence developed in 13 patients (54 per cent) undergoing two-stage fistulotomy and seven patients (54 per cent) treated with a cutting seton.
(16) High fistulas should be treated with seton drainage to limit recurrent suppuration and preserve sphincter function.
(17) We find that the use of the seton after partial fistulotomy for complicated anal fistulas reduces the rate of incontinence caused by sphincteric transection and has a very low recurrence rate.
(18) This qualified success rate is far below rates reported for other setons.
(19) The functional results in transsphincteric and suprasphincteric fistulas, which are usually considered at higher risk for postoperative incontinence, were better in the anal manometry group, due to greater use of the seton.
(20) The Molteno long tube seton was used in 12 eyes with glaucoma.
Setup
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Two fundus cameras were used in the development of a setup for bilateral fluorescein angiography.
(2) Appointed as the Wales technical director in 2007 and part of the senior setup ever since the late Gary Speed was appointed manager three years later, Roberts has his fingerprints all over the recent success and is also heavily involved in bringing through the next generation.
(3) In organ culture systems using the Trowell setup, morphogenetic differentiation (which largely mimics the development reached in vivo within 2--3 days) can be obtained in limb buds of mouse embryos during a culture period of 6 days.
(4) A microscope laser light scattering setup was developed, allowing us to do intensity autocorrelation spectroscopy on the light scattered from a volume as small as (2 micron)3.
(5) It is this understanding of the so-called England Way which makes him a convenient choice to fill Hodgson’s shoes, at least on a temporary basis – and a crucial part of the youth setup’s future.
(6) Sperm count depression was limited to applicators involved in irrigation setup work and in the calibration of equipment.
(7) This allows an almost instantaneous decision on the approval of patient setup.
(8) This setup proved useful for the evaluation of hemostatic techniques.
(9) Accelerator characteristics, various dosimetric techniques, and experimental setup are described.
(10) The need to correct distortion in both intensity (nonuniformity) and space can be avoided by attention to calibration and to the setup of the imaging device employed and by use of the sliding energy window technique.
(11) In this setup the computer controls the phased array, and the data transported consists of the high-frequency signal.
(12) Young has always had quick feet and accuracy with his crossing but it is his ability to fit into the structural setup of Van Gaal’s “philosophy” that also appears to appeal to his manager.
(13) It was a setup,” he said of the arrests and fatal shooting.
(14) All information needed to reproduce the treatment setup (i.e., positioning, immobilization technique, use of blocks, and photographs of the patient) is well documented.
(15) If this residual distribution is a small flip angle away from the actual starting distribution, then Fourier analysis of the residual distribution leads to the necessary "setup" pulse.
(16) Recommendations are made concerning operating room facilities, instrument sterilization, and tray setup (Part I).
(17) The reconstruction techniques are presented analytically, and are also evaluated in an experimental setup composed of a conventional pulse echo system, a data acquisition and a data processing system.
(18) The EU has agreed to fund the setup costs for a seven-year research project called HiPER (High Powered laser Energy Research) to build a working demonstration reactor.
(19) The first and the second concussion did not cause a comparable reaction, thus suggesting that concussions may inhibit DNA synthesis under the conditions of our experimental setup.
(20) Allardyce has spoken to Gareth Southgate, the manager of England’s Under-21s, and the pair have decided Rashford should not be involved in the senior setup when the striker has yet to play a minute in the Premier League this season.