noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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benign
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The pathogenesis of benign stricture formation in ulcerative colitis remains uncertain.
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It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.
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The rectum was the commonest site of benign strictures , 68% in our study, as in others.
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In fact, there seems to be a general predilection of benign strictures for the left side of the colon.
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Of the patients with benign strictures , 32 had universal colitis and 10 had left sided involvement alone.
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Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.
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In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures .
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The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures .
biliary
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We have reviewed our experience of exfoliative cytology in the management of patients with biliary tract strictures .
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The role of endoscopic stenting for postoperative biliary strictures is still debated.
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Improved methods of obtaining a tissue diagnosis are therefore becoming essential to the management of biliary tract strictures .
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Self expandable biliary stents have been used for palliative treatment of malignant biliary strictures .
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Does cholangiography establish the nature of a biliary stricture ?
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A wide variety of safe and effective methods is now available for obtaining a cytological diagnosis in patients with biliary strictures .
malignant
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Their use in malignant strictures provides immediate drainage, avoiding the early complications encountered with plastic stents.
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Six patients, all with malignant strictures , had bile samples taken at both endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography.
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It is not certain whether benign strictures degenerate into malignancy or whether malignant strictures are carcinomas to start with.
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Sixteen percent of the patients with left sided colitis developed malignant strictures compared with 31% of the patients with universal colitis.
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Figure 1 shows the proportions of benign and malignant strictures by duration of colitis.
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The most striking aspect of our study is the difference in presenting symptoms associated with benign v malignant strictures .
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In this study we have examined both benign and malignant colorectal strictures in ulcerative colitis and have compared their features.
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How are we to separate benign from malignant strictures ?
oesophageal
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Endoscopic dilatation is safe and effective for short and long term relief of dysphagia in patients with corrosive oesophageal strictures .
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In several large series from other countries, however, corrosive ingestion was responsible for only 1-4% of benign oesophageal strictures .
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We have reported that endoscopic dilatation is an effective and safe short term treatment for corrosive oesophageal strictures .
peptic
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This figure is comparable with the success rate in our peptic stricture patients as well as in several other reports.
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Of 69 patients with more than six months follow up, 36 belonged to the corrosive group and 33 had a peptic stricture .
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The dysphagia recurrence rate during follow up was higher in the corrosive than in the peptic stricture group.
■ NOUN
duct
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Patients presenting with obstructive jaundice caused by bile duct stricture may be managed by either surgery or stenting.
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A straight 10 F endoprosthesis was used in the five patients with a bile duct stricture distal to the stones.
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The date of diagnosis was defined as the point when radiological evidence of intrahepatic and/or extrahepatic duct strictures were first demonstrated.
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We have advocated initial endoscopic stenting for bile duct strictures after open cholecystectomy.
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The overall contribution of exfoliative bile cytology to the diagnosis of bile duct strictures is shown in Figure 3.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For all of its own bureaucratic strictures, the diplomatic corps had the sympathetic ears that Liang was looking for.
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Many thought Dole should at least relinquish his post of Senate majority leader to gain freedom from legislative strictures.
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The main difference is that Jerry Springer's guests have not taken Hope Steadman's strictures about yelling to heart.
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Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited.