Synonymer & Information om | Engelska ordet LITHOTOMY

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• The lithotomy position involves the positioning of an individual's feet above or at the same level as the hips (often in stirrups), with the perineum positioned at the edge of an examination table.
• Among operations with which his name is specially identified are those for harelip and cleft palate, and operations on the jaws, the excision of joints, notably the hip, knee, and elbow, lithotomy and lithotrity, and amputations of limbs.
• Jean Civiale (1792–1867) was a French surgeon and urologist, who, in 1823, invented a surgical instrument (the lithotrite) and performed transurethral lithotripsy, the first known minimally invasive surgery in Europe, to crush stones inside the bladder without having to open the abdomen (lithotomy).
• Now the diagnosis has been confirmed by either cystoscopy or a prior urethrography, the patient is placed in the lithotomy position, and the urinary meatus is cleansed with an appropriate surgical cleansing agent (scrub), usually containing Povidone-iodine, then surgically draped.
• This position does not use gravity but still holds an advantage over the lithotomy position, as it does not position the venae cavae under the uterus, which decreases blood flow to mother and child.
• Direct inspection of leaking dye in vagina in lithotomy position is better than the traditional 'three swab test' as multiple fistulae may be located in this way.
• This clearly written book in good English contains 13 short chapters upon hernia, lithotomy, amputations, concussion of the brain, tumours of the gall-bladder, extirpation of the tonsils, hydrocele, and a few other matters.
• It was later modified by Jean Civiale, and was used to perform transurethral lithotripsy, the first known minimally invasive surgery, to crush stones inside the bladder without having to open the abdomen (lithotomy).
• Celsus gave the first description of lithotomy as performed before and during his time, and the operation has ever since borne his name—the Celsian method.
• In Ireland, Peile was noted as the inventor of a lithotome, which limited and rendered incisions more facile in lithotomy procedures.
• He gave reasons for preferring lithotrity to lithotomy in operating for stone in the adult male (1868) and he was the first (1863) to perform ovariotomy successfully in the west of Scotland.
• His most difficult operations were amputations at hip-joint and exsection of ulna twice; tying the common carotid fifteen times; internal carotid twice; innominata once; subclavian four times; common iliac twice; internal iliac twice, and external iliac five times; resection of the femur three times; performing lithotomy twenty-one times; femoral eighteen times; and removal of the entire lower jaw for phosphor-necrosis twice.

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