What's the difference between surgical and tarsorrhaphy?
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".
Tarsorrhaphy
Definition:
(n.) An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although tarsorrhaphy has been the mainstay of treatment for lagophthalmus associated with facial paralysis, it has many drawbacks which make it a less than ideal procedure.
(2) When combined with a brow lift and tarsorrhaphy, symmetry of the facial appearance while at rest has also been obtained.
(3) The patient was treated with tarsorrhaphy and ocular lubricants.
(4) A simple and effective method of temporary tarsorrhaphy, which is referred to as intermarginal serpentine temporary tarsorrhaphy, is presented.
(5) Tarsorrhaphy relieves the problem of persistent epithelial defects in neurotrophic keratitis and a variety of other conditions characterized by persistent surface breakdown.
(6) This problem can be successfully managed by a combination of conjunctival fornix sutures to invaginate the prolapsed conjunctiva and temporary suture tarsorrhaphy.
(7) Available methods of therapy range from simple medical means, through soft contact lenses and tarsorrhaphy, to conjunctival flaps and keratoplasty.
(8) The corneal response to a complete tarsorrhaphy was studied in 46 rabbits for time periods up to 21 days.
(9) Exposure and neurotrophic keratopathy may respond to topical lubricants and correction of lid abnormalities but severely affected corneas may require tarsorrhaphy or conjunctival flap to maintain corneal integrity.
(10) Surgical division of the tarsorrhaphy can be performed easily with little, if any, defect of the eyelids.
(11) Beginning in 1986, a lateral canthal suspension consisting of either a lateral tarsal strip or a lateral tarsorrhaphy was added to the scleral implantation ("intermediate" procedure) and was performed in seven patients.
(12) Loss of vision in the left eye due to severe proptosis was reversed by prompt aspiration and tarsorrhaphy.
(13) Satisfactory static reconstruction of the face may be accomplished with the use of a brow lift, tarsorrhaphy, and correction of the paralyzed mouth.
(14) The resulting excellent hemostatic qualities decreased the time, supplies, and ancillary help needed to do the tarsorrhaphy.
(15) Surgical treatments, including punctal occlusion, tarsorrhaphy, conjunctival flaps, contact lenses, superficial keratectomy, as well as parotid duct transposition, are discussed and the procedure indicated which is best suited to the case.
(16) Although no significant difference was observed between any of the drug-treated groups, lateral tarsorrhaphy was associated with a greater than tenfold decrease in the number of colony-forming units (P = .073).
(17) We describe a tarsorrhaphy technique whereby an ipsilateral upper-eyelid tarsal pillar is sutured to a corresponding lower-eyelid recipient site.
(18) The healing rate was decreased with bandage lenses and increased by tarsorrhaphy.
(19) Experiments were designed to: (i) analyse the temporal accumulation of IgA-, IgG- and IgM-containing cells in lacrimal tissue during postnatal development (6-27 days of age); (ii) examine whether prevention of antigenic exposure to the ocular surface by unilateral tarsorrhaphy might inhibit lymphocyte immigration into the ipsilateral gland during development; and (iii) assess whether a non-invasive antigen, after placement on the ocular surface of infant or adult rats, undergoes retrograde transfer to the lacrimal gland.
(20) Only the fornix fixation sutures and the central tarsorrhaphy were employed for the proper placement of graft without the use of retention devices.