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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"abdominal cavity"”.
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Flexible support scaffold for organ retraction in laparoscopic surgery
With millions of abdominal surgeries performed annually in the United States alone, abdominal surgery is both a large market and a large medial issue. The entire industry surrounding abdominal surgery has strived to reduce the pain and trauma associated with an operation by reducing the number and …
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TARGETED POLYMER NANOPARTICLES FOR THE DETECTION AND TREATMENT OF DISSEMINATED COLORECTAL CANCER IN VIVO
… United States. When CRC disseminates into the abdominal cavity, there can be hundreds, if not thousands, of small tumors infiltrating the surfaces of organs, making it extremely difficult to treat by conventional methods. Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) in combination with …
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Development of a liquid drug delivery payload for modular, wireless, incorporeal robots for laparoscopic surgery
Minimally invasive abdominal surgery (laparoscopy) is performed using long, slender instruments inserted through multiple small incisions in the patient's abdominal wall. This results in less post--operative pain, shorter hospital stays, and a quicker return to normal activities for the patient …
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Open abdomen therapy with vacuum-assisted wound closure and mesh-mediated fascial traction
Introduction: Several life-threatening intra-abdominal conditions may be treated with open abdomen (OA) therapy. Potential complications to OA treatment include damage to the exposed bowel resulting in enteric fistulas, and inability to close the abdomen afterwards resulting in large ventral …
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Abdominal vacuum lift as an aid to diagnosing abdominal adhesions
… one another during normal body movement. The abdominal organs, however, have a tendency to adhere to the abdominal cavity (peritoneum) and other abdominal organs after surgery or infection. These adhesions can cause pain, discomfort , inflammation, anxiety, depression, problems with …
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Development of a collapsible guard component for a novel surgical instrument
… tissues such that they can be removed from the abdominal cavity through the aspiration tubes. In order to effectively process the tissues, they must be placed with a sealed enclosure. This enclosure is at risk of being compromised by the spinning blades and therefore the need arises for a guard …
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An investigation of intraperitoneal procaine penicillin G administration in lactating dairy cows
… G (PPG, 21,000 IU/kg) was deposited into the abdominal cavity of each cow following an incision in the right paralumbar fossa. Blood and milk samples were taken over the following 10 days, at which point the cows were euthanized. Plasma, milk, muscle, liver, and kidney penicillin …
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conventional cytology is not beneficial for prediciting peritoneal recurrence after curative surgery for gastric cancer
… using samples harvested from 2 different abdominal cavity sites during gastric cancer surgery. Materials and Methods: We prospectively recruited 110 patients who were clinically diagnosed with locally advanced gastric cancer (higher than cT1 stage disease). Peritoneal washing fluids were …
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Aetiologie, Klinik und Prognose bei männlichen Rindern mit Harnröhrenverschluss
… was often impossible. Deep palpation of the abdominal cavity couldn’t be performed in animals with a fully developed rumen, increased tension of the abdominal wall and those with ventral oedema or intraperitoneal urine accumulation. In these cases the diagnostic importance of ultrasonography …
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Life history and control of the pear borer in Virginia: Aegeria pyri Harris (Lepidoptera: Aegeriidae)
… in the eastern part of this country. 2. The abdominal cavity of the female was filled with eggs. 3. The incubation period of the eggs averaged 5.6 days at a mean temperature of 76.2 degrees F. 4. The larvae fed mainly on the inner bark and cambium of the trees, but occasionally burrowed …
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Advances in real-time thoracic guidance systems
… tissue motion: >1cm) arises in the thoracic/abdominal cavity due to respiration. There are many clinical applications in which localizing tissue with high accuracy: <1mm) is important. Potential applications include radiation therapy, radio frequency ablation, lung/liver biopsies, and …
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Video assisted gastrostomy in children
… due to leakage of gastric contents into the abdominal cavity, tube dislodgement, gastro-colic fistula or severe haemorrhage. Complications discussed below are therefore to be characterized as minor and include local infections, leakage and development of granulation tissue. Based on our …
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Advanced abdominal pregnancy: diagnosis, evaluation and surgical management in a resource constrained setting
Introduction Advanced abdominal pregnancy (AAP) is a pregnancy of over 20 weeks gestation, with a foetus living, or showing signs of having once lived and developed, in the mother's abdominal cavity. It is a rare obstetric complication associated with high maternal and perinatal morbidity and …
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LOCOREGIONAL DELIVERY OF UNMETHYLATED CPG-OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDES TO CANCER THERAPY: PRECLINICAL STUDIES
… is nearly always restricted to the peritoneal cavity, therefore repeated intraperitoneal injections of CpG-ODN recruiting and activating innate effector cells throughout the abdominal cavity to the tumor site might control tumor cell growth and ascites formation. After a single CpG-ODN …
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The Role of Small Peptides in Cancer Physiology and Chemotherapy
… Ehrlich ascites tumor cells injected into the abdominal cavity of mice, revealed that melphalan, at concentrations of 5 and 10 mg/kg, was an effective anticancer drug providing for T/C rations of 179 and 193 respectively. The dipeptide, beta-alanyl-melphalan, was also an effective anticancer …
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Spironucleus Vortens of the Freshwater Angelfish (Pterophyllum scalare): Growth Requirements, Chemotherapeutants, Pathogenesis and Immunity
… tissues, and may be lethal if they enter the abdominal cavity and disseminate to other organs via the blood circulation. Immunity, both cell mediated and humoral, against S. vortens was investigated in this study. Histopathologic examination revealed a response from inflammatory cells …