Буж

Буж (from the French bougie – the probe) – the medical tool representing the flexible or rigid core applied to gradual expansion or a research of the bodies having the tubular form.

Allocate буж:

  • Capitate (synonym: Gyuyona буж) – elastic буж with a thickening on the distal (remote) end and divisions on all length, used for establishment of the place of an urethrostenosis and duration of the made narrower sites;
  • Conic – elastic буж which utonchatsya gradually by the end, applied to bougieurage (diagnoses or treatments) the narrowed gullet or an urethra;
  • Threadlike (synonyms: "baleen", буж filiformny) – elastic thin буж, used at the expressed urethrostenoses;
  • Elastic – elastic буж, made of nonmetallic materials (the cotton or silk fabric covered with waterproof varnishes and pitches or polymers).
 
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