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Palliative surgery for foot drop
Hand Surgery and Rehabilitation, 2022Dysfunction of the common peroneal nerve is the most common mononeuropathy in the lower limb and a source of significant disability for patients. The nerve can be damaged at various levels for various reasons (direct or indirect trauma, extrinsic compression, anatomical variant, endocrine, rheumatological, or neurological disease). Clinical evidence of
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Palliative Surgery for Mitral Atresia
Archives of Surgery, 1967ATRESIA of the mitral valve, often with associated aortic valve atresia or hypoplasia of the aorta, is an uncommon congenital cardiac defect that leads to death in early infancy. In her classic monograph, Maude Abbott 1 reported that five specimens were encountered in 1,000 postmortem examinations of patients with congenital heart disease.
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Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2003
525 THE TERMS “SURGEON” AND “PALLIATIVE CARE” do not often occur in the same sentence. It is a well-accepted, yet obvious overgeneralization that surgeons are the curing and cutting doctors, while primary care physicians provide more caring, than curing.
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525 THE TERMS “SURGEON” AND “PALLIATIVE CARE” do not often occur in the same sentence. It is a well-accepted, yet obvious overgeneralization that surgeons are the curing and cutting doctors, while primary care physicians provide more caring, than curing.
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Palliative Care and Geriatric Surgery
Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2019Although many seniors cite maintaining independence and a desire to die at home as health priorities, admission to the ICU and the use of invasive procedures are common near the end of life. Palliative care aims to relieve pain and other symptoms to maintain the highest quality of life for the longest period of time, but surgical patients are less ...
Jessica H, Ballou, Karen J, Brasel
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Palliative surgery for gastric cancer
Cancer, 1988Most patients with gastric carcinoma have a disease that is too advanced for radical surgery. A Review was made of 13,175 cases of gastric carcinoma registered at the Birmingham Cancer Registry during the period of 1960-1969. Of the patients, 79.6% had disease that was not radically resected, and few of these patients survived to 2 years. Those who had
M T, Hallissey +3 more
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Decision Making in Palliative Surgery
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, 2002Palliative surgery for advanced cancer patients involves complex decision making. Surgeons with a cancer-focused practice were surveyed to determine the extent to which palliative surgery was currently practiced, to identify ethical dilemmas and barriers they faced in performing palliative surgery, and to evaluate their treatment choices in four ...
Laurence E, McCahill +6 more
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2014
Palliative surgery can greatly contribute to improving symptom control and quality of life for terminal cancer patients. Owing to the advanced stage of the disease, however, this type of surgery is also associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important for surgeons to have a sound understanding of the medical and scientific
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Palliative surgery can greatly contribute to improving symptom control and quality of life for terminal cancer patients. Owing to the advanced stage of the disease, however, this type of surgery is also associated with significant morbidity and mortality. It is therefore important for surgeons to have a sound understanding of the medical and scientific
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[Cancer surgery--palliative surgery?].
Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie, 1989Results of surgical treatments in carcinomas of solid organs are presenting a constant pour level of success. Radical treatment as final intention of tumor management cannot be performed in the majorities of cases. We suppose that advances can be expected only by new structural approaches to surgical performance. Cooperation with clinical pathologists,
H W, Schreiber, M, Rehner
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2019
Longer life expectancy has resulted in the elderly making up the largest proportion of the population. As a result, medical care has trended toward focusing on wellness, quality of life, and symptom relief in addition to curative therapies. Palliative care is dedicated to improving overall patient quality of life by providing treatment focused on ...
Yvonne M. Carter +3 more
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Longer life expectancy has resulted in the elderly making up the largest proportion of the population. As a result, medical care has trended toward focusing on wellness, quality of life, and symptom relief in addition to curative therapies. Palliative care is dedicated to improving overall patient quality of life by providing treatment focused on ...
Yvonne M. Carter +3 more
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