(1) Additionally, several small vessels (rami pleurales pulmonales) originated from the esophageal branch (ramus esophagea) of the bronchoesophageal artery, traversed the pulmonary ligaments, and supplied the visceral pleura.
(2) However, it had no significant effect on grip strength, digital contractures, respiratory function or visceral involvement.
(3) Both genes are expressed in the fetal liver, gut, and visceral endoderm of the yolk sac and are repressed shortly after birth in the liver and gut.
(4) The prognosis of vascular amyloidosis seems to be more favourable than that of the classical visceral types.
(5) The amount of spinal visceral afferences is relatively small (only 1.5-2.5% of all somatic spinal afferences).
(6) Staging classifications are being refined to reflect increasing knowledge of important prognostic indicators, e.g., absence or presence of lymph node involvement, pattern of lymph node involvement, and absence or presence of visceral disease.
(7) Cadmium, anti-visceral yolk sac antibody (AVYS) and trypan blue all inhibited pinocytosis in a concentration-dependent fashion when added to the culture medium, although at low concentrations trypan blue was slightly stimulatory.
(8) Studying the bronchial tree on the chest x-ray it is possible to indicate the visceral situs with asplenia or with polysplenia.
(9) Khera (1973, 1975, 1977) reported that administration of ETU to pregnant rats could induce anomalies in the visceral organs and the central nervous system of fetuses in food toxicology.
(10) Stimulation using implanted electrodes in conscious rats, within the hypothalamic and midbrain areas described above, elicited typical 'flight' and 'escape' behaviour: thus, the localized regions from which the visceral alerting response is elicited contain neurones or nerve fibres integrating the whole defence-alerting response in the rat, as in other species.
(11) Discriminant analysis of eleven currently utilized blood markers of the phlogistic reaction and of the nutritional status has afforded the selection of the two most reliable acute-phase reactants (orosomucoid and C-reactive protein) and visceral proteins (albumin and prealbumin).
(12) Seventy-seven patients with metastases confined to skeleton and 73 patients bearing visceral-only disease were identified.
(13) It has become clear that a number of neuropeptides are found in sensory nerves, some of which have been identified in visceral afferents.
(14) Specificity of the Dot-enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (Dot-ELISA) for visceral leishmaniasis was significantly improved through the use of enzyme-conjugated antisera specific for IgG heavy chains.
(15) To our knowledge, this is the second report of myelitis in the course of visceral larva migrans.
(16) Cryosurgery and large-size excision are therapeutic steps of good palliative effectiveness in the treatment of skinmetastasised melanoblastoma, provided that no visceral metastasation has taken place.
(17) The autonomous-visceral pathology observed in cases of cervical injuries can be attributed to the direct effect of the trauma upon the segmental innervation appratus of the heart, diaphragm, thorax.
(18) The monkey was dissected one year after inoculation, no evidence of visceral involvement was noted.
(19) Using alkaline phosphatase as a marker for germ cells, it was shown that these cells are absent in the 12-day-old visceral yolk sac examined before and after organ culture.
(20) Visceral involvement is common, may follow or precede the cutaneous involvement and rarely, may be the only manifestation of the disease.
Viscus
Definition:
(n.) One of the organs, as the brain, heart, or stomach, in the great cavities of the body of an animal; -- especially used in the plural, and applied to the organs contained in the abdomen.
Example Sentences:
(1) Four cases of right lower quadrant abscess, each a clinical diagnostic dilemma, were recognized as abscesses surrounding a perforated viscus by application of the "coffee bean" sign on sonographic examination.
(2) attack of pain, retroperitoneal hematoma, hemoperitoneum, rupture into a hollow viscus, infective aneurysm.
(3) Ancillary evidence of a devitalized viscus in a baby who appears to have complete gastric outlet obstruction should suggest the diagnosis of gastric infarction.
(4) Small fistulae may not be suspected when overshadowed by other complications of ulcer disease such as bleeding or perforated viscus.
(5) Four cases with a total of six episodes of pneumoperitoneum were identified where viscus perforation was not documented.
(6) Physicians should suspect child abuse when children have unexplained injuries (especially young children with hollow viscus injuries) even when other signs of child abuse are absent, and they should suspect hollow viscus injury in abused children.
(7) These hemorrhagic pseudo-cysts are very often associated with chronic pancreatitis; they may rupture into a hollow viscus, the peritoneal cavity or into Wirsung's duct.
(8) The most accurate predictors of blunt hollow viscus injury were peritoneal lavage (91%, n = 14) and abdominal tenderness (50%).
(9) According to definition, administration of antibiotics in a perforated hollow viscus or an open fracture is not a prophylaxis.
(10) If the diagnosis of perforated hollow viscus can be eliminated with considerable certainty, then conservative management with careful observation and monitoring may avoid unnecessary surgery, so long as other causes of pneumoperitoneum have been ruled out.
(11) This relatively simple surgical procedure may prove valuable for the correction of neonatal atresia of the esophagus; in particular, when done upon the cranial stump, it affords primary anastomosis of the viscus without undue tension even in cases of faulty esophageal continuity involving a length of several centimeters.
(12) The diagnosis of the spinal injury was frequently delayed when abdominal viscus injury occurred together with a flexion-distraction spinal injury.
(13) Internal gall bladder fistulas with a hollow viscus following dislocation of a gallstone into the intestine represent one of the late sequelae of cholelithiasis.
(14) At all laser energies the depth of tissue vaporization was significantly greater at the higher tissue pressure with perforation of the viscus occurring at laser energies above 10 J.
(15) It is after the third day that complication develop related at one and the same to the past history, classical in such patients, (tobacco, chronic bronchitis, alcoholism) and the ectopic position of an abdominal viscus.
(16) The spinal sensory fields of each viscus were defined using three determinations: craniocaudal extent, principal innervation field, and peak innervation field.
(17) All five subsequently were proved to have a perforated viscus.
(18) Three cases of traumatic rupture of a subperitoneal hollow viscus are reported : two duodenal lesions and one rectal wound.
(19) Hence ampicillin fails appreciably to penetrate the obstructed viscus in obstructive biliary tract disease, and it is unlikely to be effective in treating infection associated with this.
(20) We conclude that PCD can be successfully performed as the initial treatment for IAA associated with a perforated viscus, obviating the first stage of the traditional two-stage surgical approach.