(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".
Trocar
Definition:
(n.) A stylet, usually with a triangular point, used for exploring tissues or for inserting drainage tubes, as in dropsy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following this combination procedure the patients were relieved completely of obstructive jaundice and right upper quadrant pain, leaving only small trocar insertion scars made during the short course of hospitalization.
(2) The sutures exit through the periumbilical trocars.
(3) The trocar mounted on the main stem of the circular stapler allows the stem of the main device to be brought out through the distal staple line.
(4) Only endoscopic cryosurgery enables a precise and exact control by means of viewing through the endoscopic trocar along with simultaneous rectal feeling, both of which enable us to achieve an exact supervision of the size of the subvesically-formed freezing sphere adjacent to the rectum.
(5) These observations suggest that direct trocar insertion is safer for patients in terms of operative time, need for additional CO2, and especially risk of multiple instrument insertions, always a blind procedures with potential for injury.
(6) To the authors' knowledge, there have been no previous reports to describe tumor implants in the abdominal trocar sites after diagnostic laparoscopic biopsies of ovarian tumors of low malignant potential.
(7) Round K-wires with either a diamond point or a high rake-angle trocar point were compared with each other and with C-wires, which have a rounded square cross section and a short diamond point.
(8) In this study a new trocar-cannula-unit(10 French) is introduced, which was used in a prospective randomised comparative study in 74 patients for suprapubic bladder punction.
(9) Two cases of tumor implants occurring in the abdominal trocar sites after diagnostic laparoscopic biopsies of ovarian papillary serous tumors of low malignant potential are presented.
(10) Two additional trocars were inserted at the level of the umbilicus at the anterior axillary lines.
(11) A special trocar permits the introduction of the catheter to be done more gently, causes less scarring, and does away with the lower Dacron cuff.
(12) The equipment consisted of the standard fiberoptic Welch-Allyn pediatric sigmoidoscope modified by replacing the obturator with a sharp pyrimidal trocar.
(13) A small trocar is passed under radiographic control, and balloon dilatation is performed over a guidewire.
(14) The trocar catheter was found to be a simple, practical, and safe instrument for suprapubic bladder drainage.
(15) This patient was a 32-year old woman who had Hulka clip sterilization without any difficulties, using a 10 mm trocar and a Wolff laparoscope, with 3 liter carbon dioxide for induction of pneumoperitoneum.
(16) The authors devised a brain biopsy technique through only one burr hole under real time monitoring, using a small foot-print transducer, 12 mm in diameter, and a special trocar with engraved scales on its surface.
(17) Coaxial trocar technique (19 patients) permits initial insertion of softer and often larger catheters (9-14 French feeding tubes), which are less likely to clog or require exchange; the intragastric balloon support method facilitates trocar insertion.
(18) The device consists of two acrylic cylinders, an acrylic template with an array of holes that serve as guides for trocars, and a cover plate.
(19) The sonographically detectable catheter may be placed via a Seldinger technique or trocar method.
(20) The mark V Filshie clip was applied a few cm from the horn of the uterus with an applicator which was introduced intraperitoneally with a special trocar.