Magnetic-anchor-guided endoscopic submucosal dissection shows promise for gastric cancer
OAK BROOK, Ill. January 27, 2009 A prospective clinical trial from researchers in Japan shows magnetic-anchor-guided endoscopic submucosal
dissection for large early gastric cancer to be a feasible and safe method in humans. Endoscopic submucosal
dissection (ESD) is useful in the en bloc removal...
Acupuncture reduces pain and dysfunction in head and neck cancer patients after neck dissection
New data from a randomized, controlled trial found that acupuncture provided significant reductions in pain, dysfunction, and dry mouth in head and neck cancer patients after neck dissection. The study was led by David Pfister, MD, Chief of the Head and Neck Medical Oncology Service, and Barrie Ca...
Aortic Dissection - A Deadly Condition
Actor John Ritter died of a lethal condition called aortic
dissection (a tear in the largest blood vessel in the body) around three years ago//. His death brought the focus on this deadly disease, which is associated with high blood pressure and genetic disorders.
Now, researchers have publish...
PEAK Surgical Introduces PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM) TnA
...K((R)) PlasmaBlade TnA (Tonsil and Adenoid) tissue
dissection device following 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Fo...d the PlasmaBlade TnA to be an excellent precision
dissection instrument that was specifically designed with the...developed the PEAK(R) Surgery System, a new tissue
dissection system based on a proprietary technology that repr...
CNI College Massage Therapy Students Experience Plastination & Cadaver Lab
...res where not quite where they thought they would be according to their books and charts.
Then after taking some time to review the muscles in the
dissection lab with plastic representations of the body, it was time to glove up and head to the cadaver lab. The students viewed three cadavers dissected in dif...
BioGlue(R) Surgical Adhesive Hits 500,000 Procedure Milestone Worldwide, Company Data Indicates
... "I have utilized BioGlue in over 1,000 patients undergoing a variety of cardiac procedures including valve replacements, aneurysm repair, and aortic
dissection repair. I find that BioGlue is safe, easy to use, and because of its effectiveness at reducing anastomotic bleeding, has allowed me to change the way...
Dissection in Medical Technology
BioVex to Report Phase I/II Clinical Trial Results for the Front Line Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer With OncoVEX GM-CSF at the 2009 American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting
... estimated 644,000 new cases annually.
Patients with locally advanced tumors are best treated with concurrent chemo radiation, with planned neck
dissection indicated in certain patients. Despite aggressive treatment of locally advanced disease loco regional recurrences develop in 30% of patients, distant ...
PEAK Surgical Announces Completion of First PRECISE Clinical Study, Receipt of Medical Design Excellence Award for PEAK(R) Surgery System and Achievement of Over 1,000 Surgeries Using PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM)
...AK Surgical, Inc., a medical device company that has developed a new tissue
dissection system based on a proprietary technology, announced today several milestone... device company that has developed the PEAK(R) Surgery System, a new tissue
dissection system based on a proprietary technology that represents an important advan...
PEAK Surgical Receives 510(k) Clearance to Market PEAK(R) Surgery System for Use in Expanded Indications
...AK Surgical, Inc., a medical
device company that has developed a new tissue
dissection system based on a
proprietary technology, announced today that the U.S. Foo... device company that has developed the
PEAK(R) Surgery System, a new tissue
dissection system based on a proprietary
technology that represents an important advan...
PEAK Surgical Announces Positive Results From Preclinical Study of PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM) Needle
... The PlasmaBlade Needle may be an
important surgical tool for facial tissue
dissection in plastic and
reconstructive surgery."
Dr. Keller presented the study re... device company that has developed the
PEAK(R) Surgery System, a new tissue
dissection system based on a
proprietary technology that represents an evolutionary le...
PEAK Surgical Announces Positive Results From Preclinical Study of PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM) for Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgery
...dical
device company that is developing new tissue
dissection systems based on a
proprietary technology, release.... The PEAK PlasmaBlade is a low-temperature
tissue
dissection tool that uses pulsed plasma energy to create surg...K PlasmaBlade has the
potential to be an important
dissection tool for surgical procedures," said
John Tighe, pr...
Study Finds Repeated Episodes of Stent Thrombosis Common
...haracteristics (for example, diabetes, age and
duration of antiplatelet therapy), angiographic characteristics (for
example, undersizing of the stent,
dissection and whether the lesion was
located at an arterial branchpoint), and procedural characteristics (for
example, whether a drug-eluting or bare-metal sten...
Dissection in Medical Products
Codmans Micro Osseous Dissection Curette
Description: Codmans Micro Osseous
Dissection Curette, bayonnet, working distance: 3" (76 mm)....
Company:Codman
Insulated Spatula Coagulation Probe, dual-incision
Description:... Insulated, angled, spoon-shaped design cups the gallbladder, permits clear visualization, and allows easy
dissection and control of bleeders....
Company:GYRUS ACMI
Eftiar Octane
Description:... Eftiar offers the vitreoretinal surgeon a temporary tamponade for efficient re-attachment of the retina, release of subretinal fluid,
dissection of fibro-vascular proliferation and controlling retinal bleeding.
Eftiar Octane and Eftiar Decalin liquid is indicated for use as an aid in tempor...
Company:Dutch Ophthalmic, USA
Eftiar®-Decalin
Description:... Eftiar® offers the vitreoretinal surgeon a temporary tamponade for efficient re-attachment of the retina, release of subretinal fluid,
dissection of fibro-vascular proliferation and controlling retinal bleeding. (Sterile, 5 ml. vail)...
Company:Dutch Ophthalmic, USA
Eftiar®-Octane
Description:... Eftiar® offers the vitreoretinal surgeon a temporary tamponade for efficient re-attachment of the retina, release of subretinal fluid,
dissection of fibro-vascular proliferation and controlling retinal bleeding. (Sterile, 5 ml. vail)...
Company:Dutch Ophthalmic, USA
Bard® PerFix® Plug
Description:...imary and recurrent indirect and direct inguinal hernias, provides significant advantages over a conventional suture technique, requiring less overall
dissection and is utilized in a complete tension-free repair technique. The result is increased patient comfort, fast rehabilitation, and fewer recurrences.
The...
Company:Davol, Inc.
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Dissection in Medical Definition
European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition
... countries should enable reliable associations to be made between particular diets and cancers. The analysis of stored blood samples should also allow
dissection of genetic factors involved in cancers, as well as the effects of hormones and hormone-like factors.
Key findings
Consumption of fibre...
Pathology
...concept of studying disease through the methodical
dissection and examination of diseased bodies, organs, and ti...t physician known to have repeatedly used anatomic
dissection to determine cause of death was an Italian, Anton...s and capillaries
Atherosclerosis - Aortic
dissection - Raynaud's phenomenon / Raynaud's disease - B...
Dissection in Medical Dictionary
Aortic dissection
Aortic
dissection is a tear in the wall of the aorta that causes blood to flow between the layers of the wall of the aorta and force the layers apart. Aortic
dissection is a medical emergency and can quickly lead to death,... Aortic
Dissection ,Diseases of the aorta,What is an ...
Tonsillectomy
... getting strep throat a lot. Tonsillectomy Grand Rounds presentation from the Grand Rounds Archive of the ... Tonsillectomy was painful. ...
dissection of tonsillectomy became the norm. ... The greatest benefit of a conventional tonsillectomy is that all of the tonsil ... Adenoidectomy Ear tub...
Thoracic
... The Thoracic Aortic Center at Massachusetts General Hospital provides the most ... Those who have had thoracic aortic aneurysms or an aortic
dissection are at ... Gore TAG Endoprosthesis: An important review of an exciting treatment modality that can potentially be used in a variety of thoraci...
Posterior
...r complex cervical spine ... Posterior Transpetrosal Approaches: In this article, the authors describe the ... The posterior temporal bone
dissection includes the retrolabyrinthine, ... Shop Barnes & Noble for "Philoponus(?): Posterior Analytics 2" by Owen Goldin (Translator). Find a wide ...
Perineum
...y found between the lower ending of the ... Retrieved from "http://simple.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Perineum " ... 2. Instructions for carrying out the
dissection of the pelvis and perineum . ... Recall that the perineum is the area below the pelvic diaphragm and is therefore ... The perineum . Below...
Pelvis
...the pelvis ) ... Common pelvis problems: Two of the more common pelvic problems include the following: ... 2. Instructions for carrying out the
dissection of the pelvis and perineum. ... The orientation of the pelvis with the body in the upright position is with the ... The illustration of a woma...
Dissection in Biological News
Single gene defect can cause stroke, other artery diseases
...ic disease, the wall of the aorta, the main blood vessel leading out of the heart, weakens and forms an aneurysm that can ultimately lead to an aortic
dissection and death. Coronary artery disease, the most common type of heart disease, is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States. ...
A revolutionary new model for Alzheimer's disease
...loid, all of which makes it an interesting potential therapeutic.
"I think we're going to see an explosion in the next five years involving the
dissection of these signaling pathways whose imbalance leads to Alzheimer's disease," said Buck Institute Faculty Member Dale Bredesen, MD, who led the Californi...
Timetable for Puget Sound restoration suffers setback
...cant," she said.
PNNL marine scientists, along with the Texas A&M University research team, documented the evidence from a centimeter-by-centimeter
dissection of several Puget Sound sediment cores. A recent article in Environmental Science and Technology detailed their findings from data collected over mo...
Rong Li Lab probes mechanism of asymmetry in meiotic cell division
...s," said Hongbin Li, Ph.D., Senior Research Associate and lead author on the publication. "Our findings will enable us to carry out even more detailed
dissection of the molecular components and mechanisms."
"Infertility and birth defects are often related to problems during oocyte meiotic cell divisions," sa...
Duke-NIEHS team shows how DNA repairs may reshape the genome
...ion-induced aberrations in yeast were initially detected by co-author Jim Westmoreland in the NIEHS Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and the molecular
dissection was done by Duke's Argueso.
In the yeast used for this study, the repeated DNA sequences account for about 3 percent of the genome. In higher speci...
Life-threatening gene defect located by UT-Houston researchers
... and punctured the sac to allow the blood to drain. Bryants heart began beating again but he had to wait a week until he was strong enough to have his
dissection repaired.
When UT-Houston researchers approached Bryant about joining the study after he recovered, he didnt hesitate. Family members in other stat...
Dissection in Biological Technology
Laser dissection of depression
Chinese investigators from Hefei and Dutch researchers in Amsterdam have collaborated using for the first time a combination of new elegant methodology in Depression research. They used postmortem human brain tissue that was donated to the Netherlands Brain Bank for research purposes and investiga...
New Report Just Published: World Prostate Cancer Therapeutics Market Report
...rapy II-41
Surgical Procedures for Prostate Cancer II-41
Transurethral Resection of the Prostate (TURP) II-41
Prostatectomy and Lymph Node
dissection II-42
Radical Prostatectomy II-42
Cryosurgery II-43
Advantages of Cryosurgery II-43
Disadvantages of Cryosurgery II-43
Other Treat...
Vertebral Technologies Receives Award for InterFuse(R) Interbody Fusion System
... through a less-invasive unilateral posterior approach, which provides spine surgeons the option of fusing a patient while potentially reducing tissue
dissection and nerve root retraction." Also experienced in the InterFuse procedure is spine surgeon, Jesse Butler, M.D. from Illinois Bone and Joint Institute in...
PEAK Surgical Introduces PlasmaBlade(TM) Product Line Extensions for Use in General Surgery
...smaBlade EXT Extend PlasmaBlade Family of
Tissue
dissection Tools, Which Have Been Used in More Than 150 Surgi...cal device company that has developed a new tissue
dissection system
based on a proprietary technology, has intr...kin, fat and muscle. All of the PlasmaBlade tissue
dissection tools are
used in conjunction with PEAK's PULSAR(T...
PEAK Surgical Receives 510(k) Clearance to Market PEAK(R) Surgery System for Use in General Surgery
... - Tissue
dissection System Represents Important Advance in Radiofreque...cal device company that has developed a new tissue
dissection system
based on a proprietary technology, today an...surgical cutting and coagulation tool. This tissue
dissection system will
be commercially available next month.
...
New CT scanner by GE Healthcare advances imaging technology
...mergency room patients exhibiting acute chest pain may be able to be diagnostically scanned for evidence of heart attack, pulmonary embolism or aortic
dissection in one scan.
LightSpeed VCT is also designed to enable doctors to make a quick diagnosis of stroke and assess the extent of damage by rapidly exam...
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Dissection in Biological Products
Veritas Microdissection Instrument, with LCM and Laser Cutting from Arcturus, now part of Molecular Devices
Description:...des a high-sensitivity, variable integration time, color CCD video camera and red, blue and green filter cubes for the easy identification and precise
dissection of fluorescently stained cells. Custom UV filter cubes are also available....
Company:Arcturus, now part of Molecular Devices
Bovine IFN gamma ELISPOT Kit from Endogen
Description:...terferon gamma (IFNγ) production at the single cell level. A spot forms at the site where secreted cytokine is bound, is counted (either using a
dissection microscope or automated ELISPOT reader) and then compared to the number of cells added to the microplate. This allows the frequency of cells secreting...
Company:Endogen
Dissection in Biological Definition
Anatomy
..., such as the brain or viscera, contenting themselves with a good working knowledge of the rest.
Topographical anatomy must be learned by repeated
dissection and inspection of dead human bodies.
It is no more a science than a pilot's knowledge is, and, like that knowledge, must be exact and available in...
Computed axial tomography
...contrast is administered.
CT angiography of the chest (CTPA) is also becoming the primary method for detecting pulmonary embolism (PE) and aortic
dissection , and requires accurately timed rapid injections of contrast and high-speed helical scanners. CT is the standard method of evaluating abnormalities se...
DNA
...atures in the molecular structure of chromosomes could produce traits and behaviors in living organisms was unimaginable at the time. Because chemical
dissection of DNA samples always yielded the same four nucleotides, the chemical composition of DNA appeared simple, perhaps even uniform. Organisms, on the othe...
Marfan syndrome
...ic aneurysms . If the dilation of the aorta threatens to lead to rupture, a nickel-titanium stent may be inserted. Rupture of the aorta, or aortic
dissection , is the most common cause of sudden death among Marfan syndrome sufferers.
The skeletal and ocular manifestations of Marfan syndrome can also be s...
Zoology
...
Sources and external links
A Study Guide to Invertebrate Zoology ~ at Wikibooks
An online encyclopedia of zoology
An online
dissection pictures of animals
...
Dissection in Biological Dictionary
Xenopus
...organism. Syst. Biol. 42(4):476-507. de Sá, R. O. ... Microinjection of Xenopus laevis oocytes followed by thin-sectioning electron ... Part 3:
dissection of Xenopus oocytes. The next day, wash the oocytes 3 times ... Compare Cheap Prices for Xenopus at NexTag.com. Find Great Bargains on Sportin...
Posterior
...slant board (as with a breech ... Posterior Transpetrosal Approaches: In this article, the authors describe the ... The posterior temporal bone
dissection includes the retrolabyrinthine, ... Tibialis- posterior tendinitis: how to avoid tibialis- posterior tendinitis and iliotibial band syndrome at...
PolyA tail
...medical term. What does Poly A tail mean? ... The poly(A ) tail protects the mRNA from digestion with nuclease and greatly ... Molecular
dissection of mRNA poly(A ) tail length control in yeast. ... Poly(A ) Tail -dependent Exonuclease AtRrp41p from Arabidopsis thaliana Rescues ... The Po...
Olfactory bulb
... bulb there is a considerable degree of convergence with ... Genetic
dissection of the olfactory bulb of mice: ... Olfactory bulb cut in the sagittal plane to illustrate the placement of the
dissection cuts. ... The assessory olfactory bulb therefore provides a valuable...
Malpighian tubule
...secretion in the Malpighian tubules ... In each Malpighian tubule , one cell is singled out, the tip cell, whose ... Malpighian tubule
dissection and application of the Ramsay assay for measurement ... The four Malpighian tubules are arranged as an anterior and posterior pair. ... Class...
Lymph nodes
... nodes are the filters along the lymphatic system. ... Lymph Node
dissection Key Terms: Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scan , Magnetic resonance imagin...he body is infected due to enhanced production of ... The lymph node
dissection ... Even though the sentinel lymph node biopsy is a more limited proced...