Can anyone help with my missing word..sounds like drrav...
Lesion was excised in full thickness manner taking a cuff of normal-appearing skin with it. The ___ skin under localization was done prior to full thickness excision. ...
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! ...
I am doing a report for a doctor and surgery that I don't normally do. The surgery is for excision of a perineal lesion and fistulous tract. She says she uses lacrimal dilators. It s/l lacrimal anyway but I can't seem to confirm that this is correct.
Using lacrimal dilators the wound tract was explored and found to approximately 4 cm in its greatest length but non-communicating with perianal glands or rectum. There was a blind ended sac. With the l ...
It definitely does not sound like grafting and I don't really believe that would be correct anyway. I thought maybe RAST but I am having no luck with any of my searches. Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! ...
The doc says, "Excision of epidermoid syst of the left mentum." He says "mentum" clearly in multiple places. Later on in the report he mentions the orbicularis and the depressor muscle, so I am assuming this is an eye procedure, but what is he talking about when he says "mentum". This is an account where i have to strictly expand all abbreviations, so i need to know what he is referring to.
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Here's another one...
"Doctor X brought patient to the operating room and found him to have a tight anal stenosis at the dentate line with circumferential scarring in the area, and a chronic anal fissure in the posterior midline with sentinel tags seen. He performed dilation of the anal stenosis, lateral internal sphincterotomy, and excision of hypertrophy popilii. "
Sounds like po-pill-eye
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Any suggestions gratefully received - it will be obvious to someone but it's getting late! General Surgeon with French as first language makes life interesting! Thank you so much in advance. ...