| PTBD | Percutaneous Transhepatic Bile Drainage |
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| PTVO | Percutaneous Transhepatic Variceal Obliteration |
| PTH | parathormone; parathyroid; parathyroid hormone; percutaneous transhepatic drainage; phenylthiohydant... |
| PTP | pancreatic thread protein; percutaneous transhepatic portography; physical treatment planning; poste... |
| PTCA | 1) Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty ; 경피적 경혈관 관... |
| diskectomy, percutaneous | Percutaneous excision of a herniated or displaced intervertebral disk by posterolateral approach, always remaining outside the spinal canal. Percutaneous nucleotomy was first described by hijikata in japan in 1975. In 1985 onik introduced automated percutaneous nucleotomy which consists in percutaneous aspiration of the nucleus pulposus. It is carried out under local anaesthesia, thus reducing the surgical insult and requiring brief hospitalization, often performed on an outpatient basis. It appears to be a well-tolerated alternative to surgical diskectomy and chymopapain nucleolysis. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| transluminal percutaneous coronary angioplasty | <cardiology, procedure> Dilatation of an occluded coronary artery (or arteries) by means of a balloon catheter to restore myocardial blood supply. (07 Mar 2000) |