Contralateral

Hajopoulos, 44, had what doctors call a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, or, in laymen's terms, a preventive mastectomy in a breast not yet determined to have cancer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A study published Monday in the journal Cancer found that among women in New York state who had cancer in one breast, the number who opted to have the other breast removed, called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, more than doubled between 1995 and 2005, with nearly 5,000 women opting for the procedure during that period.

Researchers reported a 150 percent increase between 1998 and 2003 for the procedure, called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, in a study published last year in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The choice to remove a healthy breast in order to avoid breast cancer is a deeply personal decision -- one that appears to be on the upswing in a specific segment of cancer patients, although there's little evidence to suggest it improves survival. study published Monday in the journal Cancer found that among women who had cancer in one breast, the number who opted to have the other breast removed, called contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, increased from 1995 through 2005 in New York state.

Just like the right hand has a "contralateral" opposing hand, the left hand -- the word PROGRESSIVE has it's oppositional counterpart and that word is REGRESSIVE. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Prediction of contralateral slips in children with SCFE ❋ Unknown (2010)

The lung-to-head circumference ratio (LHR) is an ultrasound-based measurement of the contralateral lung area taken at the level of the 4-chamber view of the heart. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Stimulation of the premotor region triggered overt mouth and contralateral limb movements. ❋ William Harryman (2009)

If you have decided to surgically remove the "small-ish" residual tumor in the left breast, then the same thinking would lead one to consider removing any tumor in the contralateral breast should one be found. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2008)

Figure 2.1 illustrates the behaviour of a typical 'graspingwith-the-hand-and-the-mouth' neuron, which was seen to fire when the animal picked up a morsel of food with its mouth (A), with the contralateral hand (B), and the ipsilateral hand (C). ❋ Unknown (2008)

In fact, not only was my critter unhappy with anything covering her head, by the time she was old enough to have opinions she developed an embarassing desire to hold the contralateral breast while nursing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just like the right hand has a “contralateral” opposing hand, the left hand -- the word PROGRESSIVE has it’s oppositional counterpart and that word is REGRESSIVE. ❋ Unknown (2005)

If one or both arms drift downward before 20 seconds, the parietal lobe contralateral to the drifting hand may be affected 229; 544, Chapter 17. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Some patients with large parietal lobe lesions also deny any relationship to certain of their body parts (usually those contralateral to the lesion) (229, 544, Chapter 17). ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

If the patient experiences difficulty and if his naming ability as previously tested is intact, he is manifesting astereognosis, which could be due to dysfunction of the contralateral in this case, the nondominant parietal lobe or of interhemispheric connections, such as the corpus callosum. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

In patients with interhemispheric dysconnection, idiokinetic praxis is normal in the hand (usually the right) contralateral to the dominant (usually the left) hemisphere and abnormal in the other hand. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Just as in the assessment of kinesthetic praxis, the evaluation of graphesthesia and stereognosis tests ( 1 ) the parietal lobe contralateral to the hand being tested and (2) the connections between the two hemispheres. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Astereognosis on the preferred hand only, indicates that the abnormality is in the contralateral parietal lobe. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)

Suggests dysfunction in the parietal lobe contralateral to the affected side. ❋ Michael Alan Taylor (1993)