Medical Transcription Word Board archived thread

kelli
help with anal fistula word sm
Mon Sep 22, 2003 13:27

This doc keeps saying something that i cannot make out, as he is a bad mumbler. The patient has an anal fistula and Crohn's. He keeps using a term that sounds like "sea tongs" and once he said "super sea tongs". He just said "the s/l sea tongs are now quite loose, the tissue is softened up significantly and he now wishes to have the s/l sea tongs adjusted since they are hanging quite loosely."

Please help!

billybob
seton, see message.
Mon Sep 22, 2003 13:29

seton (stn)

A wisp of threads, a strip of gauze, a length of wire, or other foreign material passed through the subcutaneous tissues or a cyst to form a sinus or fistula.

Stedman's

kelli
He just spelled it the fifth time...seton nm (nm)
Mon Sep 22, 2003 13:30

kelli
Thank you! nm (nm)
Mon Sep 22, 2003 13:30