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What is a plication?

What is a plication? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) An act of folding. [from 15th c.]
  2. (biology) A fold or pleat. [from 18th c.]
  3. (medicine) A surgical procedure in which a body part is strengthened or shortened by pulling together folds of excess material, and suturing them into place. [from 20th c.]
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Recently, we have begun to perform arthroscopic capsular plication in patients with significant capsule redundancy and laxity.
The ability to perform this procedure without thoracotomy minimized his hospital stay and recovery time while not compromising the integrity of the plication.
Our patients who did not undergo bilateral plication showed a similar pattern.
Surgical therapy in the form of diaphragmatic plication is often reluctantly considered because of the potential morbidity and disability associated with thoracotomy.
This repair may be bolstered with absorbable mesh to reduce the cystocele during plication and further strengthen the fascial reapproximation.
A potential improvement on sleeve gastrectomy is gastric imbrication or plication.

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