Sentence examples for previous instrumentation from inspiring English sources

b Those measured by previous instrumentation (Kodama, 2015).

Surgical treatment of symptomatic adjacent segment disease (ASD) typically involves extension of previous instrumentation to include the newly affected level(s).

"Goce's accelerometers are about a hundred times more sensitive than any previous instrumentation and we detected the acoustic wave not once, but twice - passing through it over the Pacific and over Europe," the mission manager told BBC News.

There are, however, occasions where optimal placement of the osteotomy site is not possible either due to soft tissue considerations and previous instrumentation, or periarticular deformity in which fixation may become tenuous in the resulting bone fragments [5].

It is not always possible to perform a corrective osteotomy at the CORA due to a number of factors: severe juxta-articular deformities or previous instrumentation may render bone stock insufficient to provide adequate fixation, and soft tissue scarring or tenuous skin coverage may prevent access to the osteotomy site altogether [3].

The patients suffered from repeated episodes of meningitis because an infected cyst in the bone cavity where the previous instrumentation were situated communicated with the intradural space.

While exclusion criteria were as follows: previous spinal instrumentation, spinal tumor pathology or infection, acute spinal fracture, revealing chronic liver disease, hematologic disease or laboratory sign of bleeding disorder, showing very large intraoperative blood loss, and the trigger was 1500 ml [8, 10].

Two patients were excluded due to subsequent adjacent VCF and previous spinal instrumentation, respectively.

The presence of 104 cfu/ml or more of a target PRP in bqBAL fluid or a positive pleural fluid culture in the absence of previous pleural instrumentation was considered as positive evidence for a diagnosis of pneumonia.

Eight patients were excluded from the VAS score analysis due to postoperative infection (n = 1), previous spinal instrumentation (n = 3), concurrent 2-level operation (n = 3), and subsequent adjacent vertebral compression fracture (n = 1).

Spontaneous pneumobilia without previous surgery or instrumentation is the CT hallmark of bilio-digestive fistulas.