What's the difference between thyroid and thyrotomy?
Thyroid
Definition:
(a.) Shaped like an oblong shield; shield-shaped; as, the thyroid cartilage.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the thyroid body, thyroid cartilage, or thyroid artery; thyroideal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thyroid replacement led to resolution of both apnea and depression.
(2) Pathological and immunocytochemical data supported the diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma.
(3) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
(4) The diagnosis of anaplastic thyroid cancer, though suspected, was deferred for permanent sections in all cases.
(5) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(6) To determine whether or not the glycan moieties in hTPO play a role in the disease-associated epitopes in Hashimoto's thyroiditis, radiolabeled recombinant hTPO was immunoprecipitated after digestion with N-glycanase.
(7) The total content of both thyroid hormones in the oocytes increased throughout most of the ovarian cycle as the oocytes increased in size from less than 2 mg to approximately 6.5 mg by ovulation.
(8) Thyroid hormones suppress transcription of the gene for the beta-subunit of thyrotropin (TSH beta).
(9) In conclusion, autoimmune thyroiditis in an animal model can be prevented by reducing thyroidal iodine or its metabolism and optimal effects require intervention at the embryonic stage.
(10) The nature of the putative autoantigen in Graves' ophthalmopathy (Go) remains an enigma but the sequence similarity between thyroglobulin (Tg) and acetylcholinesterase (ACHE) provides a rationale for epitopes which are common to the thyroid gland and the eye orbit.
(11) The diastolic sarcomere length was not affected by the changes in thyroid state.
(12) In thyroid cancer patients with pulmonary metastasis lymph nodes involvement was found in 62.6%.
(13) During the 20-year period, the number of children with the enlarged thyroid was found to be 1.5-fold as increased.
(14) Only three (9%) patients had completely normal thyroid function tests.
(15) Volumetric ratio between the thyroid epithelium and colloid did not changed.
(16) The v-erb A oncogene of avian erythroblastosis virus is a mutated and virally transduced copy of a host cell gene encoding a thyroid hormone receptor.
(17) A patient with previously treated follicular carcinoma of the thyroid developed Graves' disease with a high titre of thyroid-stimulating antibodies (TSAb).
(18) Transient thyroid dysfunction occurred in 35 (46%) of 76 patients who were initially euthyroid.
(19) This case was diagnosed as thyroid medullary carcinoma-like tumor of the lung, which is a bronchopulmonary carcinoid-related tumor.
(20) In the univariate life-table analysis, recurrence-free survival was significantly related to age, pTNM category, tumour size, presence of certain growth patterns, tumour necrosis, tumour infiltration in surrounding thyroid tissue and thyroid gland capsule, lymph node metastases, presence of extra-nodal tumour growth and number of positive lymph nodes, whereas only tumour diameter, thyroid gland capsular infiltration and presence of extra-nodal tumour growth remained as significant prognostic factors in the multivariate analysis.
Thyrotomy
Definition:
(n.) The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors identify the respective place held by such techniques as thyrotomy associated with internal subperichondrial degloving and partial vertical laryngectomy with cartilage resection, and its many variants, and partial horizontal subcricoid laryngectomy (of the cricohyoepiglottopexy-type).
(2) Ten patients were treated by microsurgical arytenoidectomy through a mid-line thyrotomy, with successful decannulation in only three.
(3) We call this approach a supero-lateral thyrotomy, to differentiate it from the classic lateral pharyngotomy.
(4) In 12 cases (66.6%) surgical excision was performed by means of an extralaryngeal approach, median thyrotomy was used in 2 cases (11.1%).
(5) An arytenoidectomy is recommended by a thyrotomy approach without lateralization of the vocal cord.
(6) At 2 months of age the cyst was successfully excised via a paramedian thyrotomy, and tracheotomy avoided.
(7) Management consisted of midline vertical thyrotomy with anterior cricoid splitting, excision of the subglottic tumor and temporary stenting of the lumen with a siliconized tube.
(8) At two months of age the cyst was successfully excised by a paramedian thyrotomy via an external cervical approach, avoiding tracheostomy.
(9) The laryngopyocele was confirmed by thyrotomy after the previous direct laryngoscopy awaken the suspicious either a malignant grown or a cancer with a laryngocele association.
(10) In 7 cases with severe stenoses we performed a complete cricotomy and thyrotomy.
(11) Two of the 11 children who were successfully decannulated required laryngotracheoplasty or thyrotomy.
(12) For success in the airway and voice results, the salient points in surgery include 1) precise midline thyrotomy, 2) shaping of the vocal cord under fiberoptic control, and 3) mucosa grafting with the combined use of a pliable stent or fibrin glue for fixation.
(13) The laryngocele was treated by extramucous lateral thyrotomy and the carcinoma removed through subtotal thyroidectomy.
(14) No local recurrences were observed among 42 patients who underwent thyrotomy and cordectomy when the tumor was confined to the middle third of the mobile true vocal cord.
(15) Ipsilateral thyrotomy or subtotal thyroid lobectomy continues to be a potentially curative procedure for hyperparathyroidism when there is a missing and presumably diseased superior or inferior gland.
(16) In all patients, the operative procedure included a midline thyrotomy, excision of the posterior commissure scar tissue, and stenting.
(17) This present report underscores that thyrotomies, hemilaryngectomies, and cricohyoidoepiglottopexies should be adapted to the exact tumor location and the laryngeal mobilities.
(18) Both patients were treated via an anterior tracheo-crico-thyrotomy with excision of scar tissue.