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Pediatric palliative care and surgery [PDF]
Annals of Palliative Medicine, 2022 Care for pediatric patients with serious or potentially life-limiting illness involves the interplay of multiple medical and surgical teams within the hospital. Pediatric surgeons are capable of performing procedures that can improve the quality of life for children facing serious illness, but which also carry the potential for significant risk and ...
Katherine C, Ott +3 more
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Hilar cholangiocarcinoma – the long-term results of radical and palliative treatment
Nowotwory, 2021 INTRODUCTION: Hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HC) is a tumor that requires a multidisciplinary approach and treatment. The 3- and 5-year survival rates of HC patients treated with surgery and palliative methods were evaluated in the study. MATERIAL AND METHODS:
Włodzimierz Otto +4 more
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Practical oncology, 2023 Palliative surgery is defined as surgery for symptoms attributable to an advanced or incurable malignancy or symptoms due to malignancy treatment. Palliative surgery is a frequent occurrence at cancer centers and represents almost a quarter of a surgical oncologist’s practice.
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Current Oncology, 2023 Background: Recent studies have found that patients with incurable gastric cancer might benefit from palliative gastrectomy, but the impact of palliative gastrectomy on metastatic early-onset gastric cancer (mEOGC) patients remains unclear.
Hang An, Peng-Yuan Wang, Yu-Cun Liu
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Palliative care education in surgery [PDF]
Annals of Palliative Medicine, 2022 Though incorporating palliative care principles with standard medical and surgical care has been associated with multiple benefits, surgical training devotes far less time to developing skills within the palliative care domains. In this review, we sought to explore the existing literature concerning palliative care education within the context of ...
Sara M, Jafri +2 more
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Role of Palliative Duodenojejunostomy in Advanced Pancreatic Carcinoma- A Case Series [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Pancreatic cancer is a common gastrointestinal malignancies associated with poor prognosis. Most of the patients present only in late stage with metastasis or locally advanced disease during the time of diagnosis, requiring palliative surgery.
N Indumathi, A Murugan, KV Rajan
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Fujita Medical Journal, 2023 Objectives: Antiemetics have been widely recommended for treating opioid-induced nausea and vomiting (OINV). According to a previous study, the use of prophylactic prochlorperazine at the initiation of treatment with oral oxycodone was ineffective in ...
Kazuki Imai +5 more
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Safety and Efficacy of Single-Port Laparoscopic Ileostomy in Palliative Settings [PDF]
Annals of Coloproctology, 2020 Purpose Single-port laparoscopic techniques can be optimized with confined incisions. This approach has an intraoperative advantage of excellent visualization of the correct intestinal segment for exteriorization, along with direct visual control of the ...
Seng-Muk Kang +6 more
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Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2020 Background: Primary tumor resection (PTR) in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) has not been suggested by guidelines, since new systemic chemotherapy options have improved overall survival. However, the effect of PTR is still controversial in mCRC.
Yakup Ergun +7 more
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Palliative Surgery for Pseudomyxoma Peritonei [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Surgery, 2015 Introduction: Pseudomyxoma peritonei is a rare disease causing peritoneal carcinomatosis. In patients with extensive carcinomatosis, curative treatment is unachievable. Palliative debulking therapy is the only treatment in relieving symptoms.
Funder, J A +3 more
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