Procedures are septoplasty and bilateral inferior turbinate submucous resection. This doctor says this over and over. I've had QA insert "Sklar" elevator - but I cannot hear this. I hear cigar clearly but cannot document it anywhere. I can document Sklar - evidently they make the Freer and Cottle elevator (that are also mentioned in this report).
Dictator speaks clearly, not ESL. Word is spoken in 2 syllables.
This exact question (ENT surger ...
I can't understand these 2 parts.
s/l gram-ma-mala
s/l lamnent pro-pre-cia
Dissection proceeded past the (gramamala). This was done in a very careful medial to lateral dissection using the ethmoid bulla lateral wall as the identifying landmark for the (lament proprecia).
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Does anyone know what is being said in the bolded area below? I'm lost. Any help is appreciated.
Paranasal sinus screen was performed and she has a right maxillary retention cyst with a left maxillary air-fluid level. There is a significant right NSD related to a left contubalosa. The remainder of the sinus are unremarkable. ...
Has anyone ever heard of Neomed or Neomet Sinus Rinse? I can find NeilMed Sinus Rinse but that is not what I am hearing. Thanks in advance for your help! ...
Hoping for a confirmation on the phrase sinus tarsi syndrome. I've used Google, searching in many different ways but still getting "sinus tarsi," but VR keeps spitting out "sinus Tarsi syndrome." I really feel that's not right, but I am always questioning it, always going back to researching it, and still getting results with the tarsi lowercased. Is it supposed to be capitalized? ...
My eyes are burning, tearing and are out of focus, my cheeks and upper teeth are killing me and I have a headache at my eyebrows, but I'm still working. Anybody else work while sick just to make ends meet?? Anybody else work sick because they don't want to have to go through all we have to go through just for missing a shift? ...
Patient had a second pilonidal sinus excision. In two separate dictations, doctor referred to excision as including (what sounds like) caradaculous flaps. I've done several searches with various spellings of this word to no avail. Any idea what the proper spelling should be? Thanks so much for your help! ...
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Laboratory work showed an EKG with sinus tachycardia, 15.7 white count, and hemoglobin 17.8. Can somebody tell me if this is punctuated right? ...
Patient has cancer of several sinuses. During the PE doc says "She has s/l meadows in the lower left jaw." Meadows?? I'm wondering if he means "metals" as he is a heavy ESL Asian doc, but that doesn't make sense either. This patient is also Asian and so I'm wondering if this is some cultural thing on the order of tattoos or lip/nose/wherever rings. Anyone have an idea? Thanks so much. ...
Stumped here. :(
Surgeon says:
Two screws fractured at the level of the bone. They were ____________ and removed in the usual fashion.
The blank sounds like "truffened", "troughened", "truffined"? Some sort of removal. I have absolutely no idea.
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Axial and coronal images of the paranasal sinuses were reviewed without contrast. ___ were used which does not provide soft tissue details of the orbital and intracranial cavity or neck.?? ...
The doctor dictates: *to surgery after appropriate preparation and today* prosthetic arthroplasty, Austin Moore-type left hip. What I flagged, I know cannot be completely right because it doesn't make sense. Any clues as what he may be saying?? Thanks!
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the area on the trigone was just slightly raised tumor whereas above the left ureteral orifice and slightly down in a **bafond** the tumor was papillary in nature. ...