tarsectomy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Noun
[edit]tarsectomy (plural tarsectomies)
- (surgery) The operation of removing one or more of the bones of the tarsus (cluster of bones in the foot).
- 1890, Transactions of the American Surgical Association, volume 8, page 82:
- That no less than eleven different forms of tarsectomy have been described for the cure of club-foot would seem to show that surgeons have not found any one of these operations giving perfectly satisfactory results.
- 1995, J.P. Ivory, I.M. Nugent, A.C. Ross, Key Topics in Orthopaedic Surgery, published 2005, page 189:
- In the rigid foot with fixed deformity, a wedge tarsectomy or triple arthrodesis with tibialis posterior transfer is necessary.
- 2012, Piet deBoer, Richard Buckley, Stanley Hoppenfeld, Surgical Exposures in Foot & Ankle Surgery: The Anatomic Approach, page 170:
- Transverse incisions are used best for wedge tarsectomy.
- (surgery) The operation of removing one or more tarsi (plates of connective tissue, one found in each eyelid).
- 1995, Bhupendra C. K. Patel, Richard L. Anderson, “Levator aponeurosis repair”, in Thomas C. Naugle, Jr., Richard J. Hesse, Constance L. Fry, editors, Diagnosis and Management of Oculoplastic and Orbital Disorders: Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Symposium, page 25:
- An important advantage of using Whitnall's sling procedure or the superior tarsectomy modification is that the other alternatives are still available if these procedures should give unacceptable results.
- 2005, Edwina A. McConnell, Teddy Jones, A Stone for Every Journey: Traveling the Life of Elinor Gregg, R.N., page 215:
- One of the more radical treatments, tarsectomy, removes the eyelid's cartilage plate and the result can be inability to fully elevate the lids, just as you feel now.
- 2011, David T. Tse, Color Atlas of Oculoplastic Surgery, 2nd edition, page 94:
- As parents are often opposed to surgery on the normal eye, considerable improvement may be obtained and further surgery deferred or avoided if a maximal aponeurotic resection (Whitnall's sling) procedure with a superior tarsectomy is performed first.