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Stenosis
A stenosis (plural: stenoses; from Ancient Greek στένωσις, "narrowing") is an abnormal narrowing in a blood vessel or other tubular organ or structure.

It is also sometimes called a "stricture" (as in urethral stricture).

The term "coarctation" is synonymous, but is only commonly used in the context of aortic coarctation.

Diagnosis

Stenoses of the vascular type are often associated with a noise (bruit) resulting from turbulent flow over the narrowed blood vessel. This bruit can be made audible by a stethoscope. Other, more reliable methods of diagnosing a stenosis are imaging methods including ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Magnetic Resonance Angiography, Computed Tomography/CT-Angiography which combine anatomic imaging (i.e. the visible narrowing of a vessel) with the display of flow phenomena (visualization of the movement of the bodily fluid through the bodily structure).

Causes

Types

The resulting syndrome depends on the structure affected.

Examples of vascular stenotic lesions include:

Stenoses/strictures of other bodily structures/organs include:

See also

References

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Spinal Stenosis Treatment
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Stenoses
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Pulmonary stenotic lesions after BA develop with age in growing children.
May 18, 2003; 2003 MAY 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pulmonary stenotic lesions after balloon angioplasty (BA) develop with age in growing...
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Weights stenotic aortic valves provide objective evidence of valvular stenosis.
Dec 31, 2003; 2003 DEC 31 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Weights of operatively excised stenotic aortic valves provide objective evidence of...
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Poststenotic dilatation flow is balanced by flow through stenotic orifice.
Nov 21, 2004; 2004 NOV 21 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Does poststenotic dilatation enhance collateral flow? Scientists writing in the...
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TEXAS INVENTOR DEVELOPS STENOTIC, ANEURYSMIC VESSEL REPAIR METHOD
Jan 21, 2009; ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 21 - An inventor from has developed an apparatus for repair of stenotic and aneurysmic vessel. The inventor...
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Revision surgery of a stenotic speaking shunt in near-total laryngectomy patients
Jul 01, 1998; A near-total operation to create a speaking shunt is generally considered a suitable option in most T3 laryngopharyngeal cancer...
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