osteotomy

Converse of object

• have: We find that most people who have a proximal metatarsal osteotomy prefer to stay in hospital the night after the operation.
• call: Sometimes the bone around the old femoral implant has to be cut into sections before being removed, in a process called an osteotomy.

Adjective modifier

• calcaneal: There is no difference in the reported clinical results of medial displacement posterior calcaneal osteotomy and lateral column lengthening.
• tibial: Management of in terms of high tibial osteotomy vs Uni.
• metatarsal: A first metatarsal osteotomy may be needed in some cases.
• proximal: In a young patient in which femoral head preservation is preferred, however, a proximal femoral osteotomy may be indicated.
• distal: You don't usually need a plaster after a distal chevron osteotomy.
• pelvic: Side of the pelvic osteotomy was 2cm shorter in the femoral segment.

Modifies a noun

• operation: I had the opportunity to sit in on an osteotomy operation, and most placements cannot offer this type of experience.

Noun used with modifier

• chevron: You don't usually need a plaster after a distal chevron osteotomy.
• wedge: Sometimes a wedge of bone is taken out ( closing wedge osteotomy ).
• closing: Sometimes a wedge of bone is taken out ( closing wedge osteotomy ).
• flexion: Although flexion osteotomy was found to be superior to rotational osteotomy, neither procedure gave the patients a functional solution.
• metatarsal: We find that most people who have a proximal metatarsal osteotomy prefer to stay in hospital the night after the operation.

Preposition: of

• metatarsal: One common operation is known as an osteotomy of the first metatarsal.
• calcaneum: An alternative surgical approach is to carry out a closing wedge osteotomy of the posterior calcaneum to make the prominence less protuberant.

Preposition: for

• treatment: Dorsiflexion metatarsal osteotomy for treatment of recalcitrant diabetic neuropathic ulcers.