Adjective(1) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments, skin patches(2) through the unbroken skin(3) refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)
Adjective(1) through the unbroken skin; refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments, skin patches(2) through the unbroken skin(3) refers to medications applied directly to the skin (creams or ointments) or in time-release forms (skin patches)
(1) The diagnosis was also confirmed in all three patients who had a preoperative percutaneous needle biopsy.(2) Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or percutaneous endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.(3) For example, when percutaneous lung biopsies are performed the needle can be guided in through the lung under direct vision.(4) Diagnosis usually requires incisional biopsy, but when necessary it can be made with a well planned percutaneous core needle biopsy.(5) Several types of skin testing instruments are available for percutaneous skin testing.(6) Most of our specimens were obtained percutaneously either by the clinician, cytopathologist, or radiologist.(7) With this method, blood cultures are taken simultaneously through the suspected central catheter and percutaneously from a distant site.(8) Alternatively, a catheter can be inserted percutaneously through the anterior wall of the trachea.(9) Another arterial catheter was placed percutaneously into the left brachial artery.(10) It was not until the 1980s that therapeutic cardiac electrophysiology emerged; this procedure, carried out while patients are conscious, uses wires passed percutaneously to the heart to ablate the cause of arrhythmias.
