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.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Progressives the New Moderates?] Reference

Prediction of contralateral slips in children with SCFE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Current orthopaedic research projects] Reference

Suggests dysfunction in the parietal lobe contralateral to the affected side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Astereognosis on the preferred hand only, indicates that the abnormality is in the contralateral parietal lobe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Graphesthesia in only the nonpreferred hand suggests dysfunction in the contralateral parietal lobe or in the corpus callosum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Astereognosis on the nonpreferred hand only, indicates that the abnormality is in the contralateral parietal lobe or corpus callosum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Printing: Are Progressives the New Moderates?] Reference

Let however the manoeuvre be then repeated with the one difference of condition, that the muscle contralateral to that which is passively stretched has been deafferented.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference

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).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

If the patient cannot reproduce these hand positions, he is manifesting kinesthetic dyspraxia, reflecting malfunction in the parietal lobe contralateral to the hand being tested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

The first row corresponds to the contralateral hemisphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The reference electrode was a chlorided silver wire inserted into the contralateral eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Stimulation of the premotor region triggered overt mouth and contralateral limb movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [>-- The Garden of Forking Paths --<] Reference

(Immuno) histological study of the contralateral hemisphere (1 port) and the radiation target.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Difference waves were obtained by subtracting ipsilateral activity from contralateral activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Unsure if she should have a contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, she talked with her surgeon about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

It is also the largest study to date of the association between BRCA mutations and contralateral breast cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Activity observed in the change-detection task confirms the presence of the contralateral delay activity (CDA).    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The CDA for each condition was computed by subtracting the ipsilateral waveforms from the contralateral waveforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

In that time 455 women had ipsilateral breast cancers (IBC) diagnosed and 589 women had contralateral breast cancers.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Two regions of interest were defined: the radiation target in right caudate and the contralateral left caudate nucleus.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

That is, both tasks demonstrate a large, negative, sustained voltage difference between ipsilateral and contralateral channels.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Fewer women with asymptomatic than symptomatic contralateral cancer had node metastases, an indication the cancer may have spread.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com News - Top Stories] Reference

Recent experiments have demonstrated an electrophysiological marker of VWM encoding and maintenance, the contralateral delay activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Indeed movement, or preparation for movement, is accompanied by a decrease of SMR activity, particularly contralateral to the movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Hemifacial twitching is definitely more common than clonic motions in the contralateral arm; least common is clonic activity in the leg.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

D. Anderson Cancer Center say that contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM), a preventive procedure to remove the unaffected breast in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medindia Health News] Reference

The occurrence of spikes over the parietal region (parasagittal zone) following contralateral tactile stimuli characteristic of this condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The study analyzed findings from 705 women with contralateral breast cancer and a comparison group of 1,398 women with unilateral breast cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference

Explain to patients that the risk of contralateral breast cancer was strongly influenced by the hormone receptor status of the initial breast cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

The energy-dependent component is given by the contralateral energy envelope,, because ICcl receives excitatory input from the contralateral nucleus angularis.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

If a muscle is voluntarily contracted, then suprathreshold TMS to the contralateral hemisphere induces a "silent period" in the ongoing electromyographic activity.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

The RH-PAT index values from the study arm are then normalized to the concurrent signal from the contralateral finger to correct for changes in systemic vascular tone.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Researchers found that the cultured cells migrated, re-implanted into the right caudate nucleus, and migrated through the corpus callosum to the contralateral striatum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

"This is the first population-based study of these two important breast cancer susceptibility genes and their relation to contralateral breast cancer risk," Malone said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newswise: Latest News] Reference

Pseudoneglect may be the product of right hemisphere specialisation for spatial attention and the stronger connections between this hemisphere and the contralateral hemispace.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference