Sentence examples for lateral pillars from inspiring English sources

In this area innervation, lymphatic drainage and blood supply mingle in the lateral pillars of the rectum.

After the flap was tacked to the chest wall with 3 × 0 polydioxanon sutures, closure of the medial and lateral pillars over the flap optimized upper pole fullness.

On the lateral side the low hypogastric plexus has to be dissected off the mesorectum and the lateral pillars also have to be transected.

After the flap was tacked to the chest wall with 2 × 0 PDS sutures, closure of the medial and lateral pillars over the flap optimized upper-pole fullness (Fig.  9).

Recently, many authors have argued against nonoperative treatment, especially in children >6 years old with lateral pillar type B, B/C, or C LCPD.

Herring et al. [14], in a prospective multicenter study, found a strong correlation between the lateral pillar classification, age at disease onset, and outcome in patients with Legg Calvé Perthes disease.

The most important predictor of leg length discrepancy (LLD) is the extent of lateral pillar involvement, and no other factor (including age, sex, and treatment modality) is correlated with LLD at skeletal maturity [32].

LHS postoperative Larson (Iowa) hip score, S significant, Ns nonsignificant Open image in new window Fig. 1 Radiographs show the hips of a 7.5-year-old boy with LCPD of the left hip (Catterall class IV, lateral pillar group C).

They concluded that this technique is an effective procedure for salvaging late-onset LCPD in affected hips, and that the amount of head involvement and the lateral pillar influence the surgical outcome [29, 36].

Patients >8.0 years old at disease onset who had a hip categorized as lateral pillar B or B/C according to the Herring classification were found to have better outcomes following surgical treatment with either femoral varus osteotomy or innominate osteotomy than they did with nonoperative treatment.

We also used the lateral pillar classification by Herring et al. (1992): group A with no reduction in the height of the lateral pillar of the femoral head, group B with more than 50% of the height of the lateral pillar maintained, and group C with reduction of the lateral pillar by more than 50%.