(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.
Trochar
Definition:
(n.) See Trocar.
Example Sentences:
(1) For immediate and sustained strong fixation in bone, a wire with a trochar tip configuration should be inserted at low drill speeds.
(2) Because of the need for a third portal for operative procedures during glenohumeral joint arthroscopy, we studied the anatomy of the supraclavicular fossa portal with the humerus in various degrees of abduction and the trochar placed at various angles.
(3) We have demonstrated that the polypeptides can be fabricated into dosage forms that are amenable to administration by trochar.
(4) The trochar-indicator may find wide application at the establishments of the antituberculous service in treating cavitary tuberculosis.
(5) They were performed through perforation of the floor of the 3th ventricle with the aid of a leukotomy trochar which was introduced through a frontal ventriculography burr hole, and then guided under X ray control.
(6) Pin migration was observed in 4 calves that had been treated with nonthreaded trochar point pins.
(7) Instead of them a rubber tube is introduced in the Winslow foramen through a trochar made puncture in the right subcostal space.
(8) For transthoracic puncture of tuberculous caverns a trochar equipped with a photo-indicator is recommended.
(9) The kit includes a trochar for the cavern puncture, a device for the long-term fixation of the trochar tube in the cavern, a superchanging device with a spray and catheters.
(10) Thirty patients with 31 fractures of the mandibular angle were treated by open reduction and internal fixation using two mini dynamic compression plates with self-threading screws placed through a transoral incision with transbuccal trochar instrumentation.
(11) The trochar-tipped wire displayed the highest required torque and axial load to penetrate bone.
(12) After each of the respective serial slabs was mounted on glass, the Eik Nes-Brizzee trochar technique for the discrete removal of tissue samples was used to obtain 0.5 mm dia.
(13) A relatively simple design of the instrument enables the surgeon to determine the instant of the trochar's tip penetrating the hollow of the cavern.
(14) This procedure involves mobilizing the spleen by dividing the renal, colic, and diaphragmatic attachments; decompressing the liquefied cyst contents through a thoracostomy trochar; excising the outer splenic capsule and gaining hemostasis of the splenic wall with a running interlocked silk suture; and providing external tube drainage of the left upper quadrant.
(15) After placement for three weeks, pull-out force of the diamond-tipped wire equaled the trochar.
(16) By using a simple in its arrangement and a little-traumatic trochar-drain tube a single-stage cystotomy can also be effected with the help of Foley, Maleko or Pezzer's catheters.
(17) Compelling occasions on the author leading to successful closure of the trochar perforation of the colon on the spot with the help of a band applicator alone has led to the concept of appendicectomy in practice; More so with the author's modified band applicator.
(18) The instrument consists of a deflecting wire guide threaded through a 19.5-guage trochar needle, which can be manually controlled to coil around and stabilize a free loop of cord.
(19) The use of a drain trochar with a length of attached silicone drain is described for passing wires through the face into the mouth in fixation of complex facial fractures.
(20) Forty-seven Ajax white mice (weighing 20 to 30 g) received a subaxillary tumor burden (C-1300 murine neuroblastoma) per trochar (1.25 x 10(6) cells).