| Whipple, Allen | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1881-1963. See: Whipple's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| whipple disease | <radiology> Bacterial: Tropheryma whipplei, treatment: antibiotics, hallmark: macrophages in lamina propria stain PAS-positive Findings: thick small bowel folds, dilated lumen, pebble-like surface due to increased villi Differential diagnosis: (infiltrative diseases), sprue, lymphoma, amyloid, EG (12 Dec 1998) |
| Whipple, George | <person> U.S. Pathologist and Nobel laureate, 1878-1976. See: Whipple's disease. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Whipple's disease | <gastroenterology> A rare disorder of intestinal malabsorption that occurs as the result of the intestine. Treatment is with antibiotics. (27 Sep 1997) |
| Whipple's operation | Excision of all or part of the pancreas together with the duodenum. Synonym: Whipple's operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Belsey Mark IV procedure | A transthoracic hiatal hernia repair that restores the lower oesophageal sphincter zone to the high pressure region below the diaphragm. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Belsey Mark V procedure | A modified Belsey Mark IV procedure often employing pledgetted sutures performed for patients with hiatal hernia plus disordered oesophageal motility in whom an oesophageal myotomy is also needed. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Girdlestone procedure | Complete resection or excision of the head and neck of the femur. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Vineberg procedure | Implantation of the internal mammary artery into the myocardium to improve blood flow to the heart. (05 Mar 2000) |
| V-Y procedure | A flap in which the incision is made in a V shape and sutured in a Y shape to gain additional tissue. Synonym: V-Y plasty, V-Y procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Gomori procedure | <procedure> Cytochemical staining procedure used to localise acid phosphatases. Depends upon the production of phosphate ions from organic phospho esters such as _ glycerophosphate. The phosphate in the presence of lead ions causes the formation of a precipitate of lead salt that is converted to the brown sulphide of lead by the action of yellow ammonium sulphide. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Chamberlain procedure | A limited left anterior thoracostomy for biopsy of the mediastinal nodes out of reach by cervical mediastinoscopy. Synonym: anterior mediastinotomy. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rittenhouse-Manogian procedure | Enlarges the aortic annulus by incising the left coronary-noncoronary commissure down unto the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Clagett procedure | For empyema, a two-stage surgical procedure for expediting treatment of chronic empyema. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Collis-Belsey procedure | A surgical method of treating oesophageal structure by creation of a neoesophagus and a fundoplication antireflux procedure. (05 Mar 2000) |