I am typing a surgery for brain tumor resection using Stealth navigation system, looking for a word that sounds like "Luken's trap." I cannot verify this. ...
I am wondering would it make sense to say "She had some tenderness with palpation "near the border" of the patella. Or would it be better to type "She had some tenderness with palpation of the knee "above" the patella." I am not sure what I am hearing.
Thanks.
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Surgeon is using a Homan/Hohmann retractor. I found both terms in the Tessier Surgical Word Book and also both terms used regarding this arthroscopic knee replacement surgery via Google. What I need is an MT who has some experience with this and can advise me as to which is correct. This is my first operative report for ortho. I need an Obi-Wan to my Luke! ...
The * (could be one or two words, I can't even describe what it sounds like!) about the upper and lower extremities were all padded.
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S/L plain poralances? ...
The patient had a s/l knee surgery with a s/l Cardizel Olds?? enzyme procedure.
He performed this ten years ago and I cannot really hear clearly what he is saying. Any ideas? Thanks. ...
Doing thorascopic procedure and doc states the lung tumor is adherent to the apex of hte chest and would require a what s/l dartoville type procedure. I haven't been able to find anything close to this. Has anyone ever heard of a procedure that sounds like this?
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ligament reconstruction, peroneal tendon reconstruction, (S/L ostragroma) resectionand ankle scope and debridement. The patient's wounds were checked today and looked to be in good condition. ...
Dictated: "... at which time I performed a colon resection for perforated rectum secondary to a s/l SIR-kir-uhl ulcer."
He says it very clearly - not circular, not sacral - but he might be mispronouncing it.
Any help appreciated, thanks!
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Does the word humming seem right in the first sentence? I thought maybe there is a specific name for the type of handpiece or wand but I can't seem to find that. These are his exact words.
"Anterior stab incisions were created for submucosal resection with Coblation handpiece humming 45 degree reflex wand. Settings of 4 and 2 were used. Three separate submucous tunnels were created anterior to posteriorly with the Coblation foot pedal activated for 12 seconds."
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Can anyone help me with this word?
The procedure says: "Transverse vaginal septum resection perineal ___."
s/l roth-e-um
Maybe she could be saying perineum ___?
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My GP is wandering into new fields on me....
The patient is status post a (s/l talo) pancreas resection for cancer on 06/29/2010.
Not sure if this should be Talar
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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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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The wedge resection biopsy of the left lingula mass demonstrated Hodgkin’s lymphoma with a nodular sclerosing type demonstrating areas of the thoracoscopy specimen demonstrated aggregates of "resturmberg" cells within the inflammatory myeloid with intertwining in sclerosing fibrosis. ...
The word in question s/l "caster", and it happens to be a basaloid neoplasm (eccrine spiradenoma) with atypical features.
"The tumor was completely excised, but the _______ edge of the lesion approached to within 2 mm of the deep resection margin."
Thanks in advance for your help.
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