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flanco - costado - torax

English translation: flank, lateral flank, thorax

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Spanish term or phrase:flanco - costado - torax
English translation:flank, lateral flank, thorax
Entered by: Elena Sgarbo (X)

08:56 Apr 22, 2002
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Medical / despiece
Spanish term or phrase: flanco - costado - torax
3-parter, part I

Finding it hard to delimit the pain here. Where does flanco end and costado begin. Also, is costado not in the thorax?

dolor en hipogastrio y flanco izquierdo de irradiación a costado izquierdo, no irradiación a tórax
MJ Barber
Spain
Local time: 23:37
flank, lateral flank, thorax
Explanation:
MJ,
Flanco is "flank", each of the abdominal areas at both sides of the midline that goes from the sternum down to the pubis, but below each hypogastriums/hypogastria. Hypogastrium is the area right below each rib cage. The flanks are further down. Your patient has a pain that starts below the left hypogastrium and compromises also his left flank. Huypogastrium and flank are thus in the anterior or ventral plane.

"Costado" means "side", and thus it's the area beyond each flank, extending from each axillary region down to the legs. A "costado" of course may be that of the thorax or that of the abdomen. In your text I'd say "lateral flank".


Hamm M. Wawroschek F. Weckermann D. Knopfle E. Hackel T. Hauser H. Krawczak G. Harzmann R. Unenhanced helical computed tomography in the evaluation of acute **flank pain**. European Urology. 39(4):460-5, 2001 Apr.

For patients with upper tract transitional-cell carcinoma (TCC), nephroureterectomy with removal of a bladder cuff is the standard of care. Historically, it has been performed using two incisions or one large incision extending from the **lateral flank** to the symphysis pubis. We describe an alternative using endoscopic management of the bladder cuff combined with hand-assisted laparoscopic (HAL) nephroureterectomy....
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Elena Sgarbo (X)
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thanks for defining the areas so well.
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5 +1low ribs
Adalbert Kowal
5flank, lateral flank, thorax
Elena Sgarbo (X)


  

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low ribs


Explanation:
the pain irradiates from the left epigastrium and the left flanc up to the low ribs (one hand breadth above the crista iliaca), but does not affect the thorax.

Adalbert Kowal
Local time: 23:37
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in pair: 19

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flank, lateral flank, thorax


Explanation:
MJ,
Flanco is "flank", each of the abdominal areas at both sides of the midline that goes from the sternum down to the pubis, but below each hypogastriums/hypogastria. Hypogastrium is the area right below each rib cage. The flanks are further down. Your patient has a pain that starts below the left hypogastrium and compromises also his left flank. Huypogastrium and flank are thus in the anterior or ventral plane.

"Costado" means "side", and thus it's the area beyond each flank, extending from each axillary region down to the legs. A "costado" of course may be that of the thorax or that of the abdomen. In your text I'd say "lateral flank".


Hamm M. Wawroschek F. Weckermann D. Knopfle E. Hackel T. Hauser H. Krawczak G. Harzmann R. Unenhanced helical computed tomography in the evaluation of acute **flank pain**. European Urology. 39(4):460-5, 2001 Apr.

For patients with upper tract transitional-cell carcinoma (TCC), nephroureterectomy with removal of a bladder cuff is the standard of care. Historically, it has been performed using two incisions or one large incision extending from the **lateral flank** to the symphysis pubis. We describe an alternative using endoscopic management of the bladder cuff combined with hand-assisted laparoscopic (HAL) nephroureterectomy....

Elena Sgarbo (X)
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in pair: 3539
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thanks for defining the areas so well.
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