The patient must be tied up in lithotomyposition on a table in the very best light that can be obtained.
Under the head of risks after lithotomy we may class the following:-- 1.
In a word, we can describe the relation of the prostate to the operation of lithotomy somewhat in this manner:--Its fibrous sheath surrounding the urethra must be cut freely.
Clever de Maldigny, a surgeon in the Royal Guards of France, who successfully performed a lithotomy on himself before a mirror.
He was chloroformed and placed in the lithotomy position, his buttocks brought to the edge of the bed, and after dilatation of the sphincter, by traction with the fingers and tooth-forceps, the horn was extracted.
In a third instance, a young girl, whose lover had violent connection with her while she was in an exaggerated lithotomy position, suffered a large tear of the right vaginal wall.
A Dutch blacksmith and a German cooper each performed lithotomy on themselves for the intense pain caused by a stone in the bladder.
Jacobson cites a case of vaginal lithotomy in a patient six and a half months pregnant, with normal delivery at full term.
Smith mentions a man who had two penises and two bladders, on one of which lithotomy was performed.
Physick of Philadelphia is said to have successfully removed by lateral lithotomy more than 1000 calculi.
It consists in cutting into the urethra just beneath the anus and introducing the lithotomy forceps from this forward into the bladder, as in the mare.
The treatment of stone in the bladder consists in the removal of the offending body; in the mare this is easily effected with the lithotomy forceps.
In the operation of lithotomy he recommended that the blade of the knife should be guarded by a tube.
Lateral lithotomy is performed in reference to the line A A; the bilateral operation in regard to the line B B.
Plate 54, represents the normal relations of the more important parts concerned in lithotomy as performed at the perinaeal region.
These circumstances influence the direction in which the first incision in the lateral operation of lithotomy should be made.
The first incision in the lateral operation of lithotomy is commenced over the inferior inner angle of this interval.
The lateral operation of lithotomy is to be performed according to the above described anatomical relations of the parts concerned.
The incision in the neck of the bladder in lithotomy must necessarily be extensive, to admit of the extraction of a stone of this size.
The patient is placed in the lithotomy position, and the fistula is exposed: the cervix is drawn downwards and backwards by means of a wire loop or tenaculum, and the urethral prominence held with a pair of hooked forceps.
The patient is placed in the lithotomy position and the various antiseptic precautions already described are carried out.
After the above preparations have been carried out, the patient is anæsthetized and placed on the table in the lithotomy position, the legs being kept well apart and fixed by means of a crutch.
The patient is anæsthetized and placed in the lithotomy position and the cervix is pulled down by a volsella and amputated transversely by a knife or scissors.
The patient is in the lithotomy position, the vaginal incisions have been made and the peritoneal cavity opened.
The patient is placed in the lithotomy position and an Auvard’s speculum is inserted.
The patient is in the lithotomy position, the speculum is passed and the cervix pulled down by a tenaculum.
The patient is placed, as before, in the lithotomy position, and the cervix is pulled down, while the edges of the fistula are kept steady by a volsella on either side.
The patient is placed in the lithotomy position and a retractor is inserted in the anterior cul-de-sac in order to elevate the anterior vaginal wall: Fig.
The patient is anæsthetized and placed in the lithotomy position with the legs supported by a crutch.
In lithotomy position with crutch applied, Auvard’s speculum inserted, and volsella attached to the anterior lip of the cervix uteri.
The patient is lying on her back in the lithotomy position: a represents the sphincter which has been torn through; the two cut ends, b and c, are represented by two dark circular, somewhat depressed spots.
The patient is placed in the lithotomy position and the parts are exposed by means of an Auvard’s speculum.
Some writers have given directions for operating under such circumstances; but none of them tell us they have successfully performed lithotomy upon the animal.
The above passage gives a very complete account of the lithotomy scoop.
We have two extant specimens of the ancientlithotomy scoop in the Naples Museum, one of which is shown in Pl.
Celsus thus describes the extraction of calculus through a perineal incision by means of a lithotomy scoop: Quum vero ea patefacta est, in conspectum calculus venit; in cuius colore nullum discrimen est.
Heister, for instance, shows as a lithotomyknife a large knife, like a phlebotome in shape.
Five are scalpels of different shapes; the sixth has a curved cutting instrument at one end and at the other a lithotomy scoop.
Rufus of Ephesus describes a lithotomy knife which had a scoop at the end of the handle with which to extract the stone.
Although Celsus gives us no information about the shape of the ordinary lithotomy knife, he goes on to describe in detail a special variety of lithotomy knife invented by Meges, a surgeon of whom he had a very high opinion.
IV; and in the marble ex voto tablet in the Athens Museum, to which I have already referred, there is a representation of a manubriolus curved so as to serve as a lithotomyscoop (Pl.
Also was advised the extraction of diseased teeth; and the operation of lithotomy was described with considerable care.
Lithotomy cost 51 marks, or half of that if the patient died.
At first a warm advocate of the high operation for stone, his dexterity in lithotomy excited the wonder of his contemporaries.
It is not often that the operation of lithotomy requires to be repeated.
It has been said that lithotrity is applicable, when, from the advanced age of the patients and the rigidity of the parts to be cut, lithotomy is not.
Practical Lithotomy and Lithotrity; or, An Inquiry into the Best Modes of Removing Stone from the Bladder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lithotomy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
