| PTCA | percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty |
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| PTRA | percutaneous transluminal renal angioplasty |
| RPTA | renal percutaneous transluminal angioplasty |
| PTBD | percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage; percutaneous transluminal balloon dilatation |
| TAP | transesophageal atrial pacing; transluminal angioplasty; transmembrane action potential; transporter... |
| PTCA | Percutaneous transluminal coronary balloon angioplasty |
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| TCA | Transluminal coronary angioplasty |
| PTCA | Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasties |
| PTCR | Percutaneous transluminal coronary recanalization |
| PTSMA | Percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation |
| nephrostomy, percutaneous | The insertion of a catheter through the skin and body wall into the kidney pelvis, mainly to provide urine drainage where the ureter is not functional. It is used also to remove or dissolve renal calculi and to diagnose ureteral obstruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| 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) |