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Excision
Known as:
removal surgical procedure
, ectomy
, removals
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The act of cutting out; the surgical removal of part or all of a structure or organ.
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Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Terminology
Surgery specialty
epididymectomy
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Adrenalectomy
Appendectomy
Cervicectomy
Cholecystectomy procedure
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Highly Cited
2020
Highly Cited
2020
Endothelial cell infection and endotheliitis in COVID-19
Z. Varga
,
A. Flammer
,
+7 authors
H. Moch
The Lancet
2020
Corpus ID: 216035686
Review
2019
Review
2019
Breast Cancer Treatment: A Review
A. Waks
,
E. Winer
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
2019
Corpus ID: 58580711
Importance Breast cancer will be diagnosed in 12% of women in the United States over the course of their lifetimes and more than…
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
Preoperative chemoradiotherapy for esophageal or junctional cancer.
P. van Hagen
,
M. Hulshof
,
+26 authors
A. van der Gaast
New England Journal of Medicine
2012
Corpus ID: 15161835
BACKGROUND The role of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in the treatment of patients with esophageal or esophagogastric-junction…
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Review
2011
Review
2011
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society International Multidisciplinary Classification of Lung Adenocarcinoma
W. Travis
,
E. Brambilla
,
+45 authors
David Yankelewitz
Journal of Thoracic Oncology
2011
Corpus ID: 31702971
Introduction: Adenocarcinoma is the most common histologic type of lung cancer. To address advances in oncology, molecular…
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Review
2006
Review
2006
Fluorescence-guided surgery with 5-aminolevulinic acid for resection of malignant glioma: a randomised controlled multicentre phase III trial.
W. Stummer
,
U. Pichlmeier
,
T. Meinel
,
O. Wiestler
,
F. Zanella
,
H. Reulen
The Lancet Oncology
2006
Corpus ID: 599363
Highly Cited
2001
Highly Cited
2001
A multivariate analysis of 416 patients with glioblastoma multiforme: prognosis, extent of resection, and survival.
M. Lacroix
,
D. Abi‐Said
,
+11 authors
Raymond Sawaya
Journal of Neurosurgery
2001
Corpus ID: 29397499
OBJECT The extent of tumor resection that should be undertaken in patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) remains…
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Two hundred gastrointestinal stromal tumors: recurrence patterns and prognostic factors for survival.
R. DeMatteo
,
J. Lewis
,
D. Leung
,
S. Mudan
,
J. Woodruff
,
M. Brennan
Annals of Surgery
2000
Corpus ID: 36309563
OBJECTIVE To analyze the outcome of 200 patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who were treated at a single…
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Clinical score for predicting recurrence after hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer: analysis of 1001 consecutive cases.
Y. Fong
,
J. Fortner
,
Ruth L. Sun
,
M. Brennan
,
L. Blumgart
Annals of Surgery
1999
Corpus ID: 28905974
OBJECTIVE There is a need for clearly defined and widely applicable clinical criteria for the selection of patients who may…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Mesorectal excision for rectal cancer
R. Aitken
,
Mr R. J. Aitken
British Journal of Surgery
1996
Corpus ID: 8138512
A series of 103 consecutive rectal cancers was prospectively documented. Laparotomy was performed in 78 patients of whom five did…
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Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
A randomized trial of surgery in the treatment of single metastases to the brain.
R. Patchell
,
P. Tibbs
,
+6 authors
Byron Young
New England Journal of Medicine
1990
Corpus ID: 25331969
To assess the efficacy of surgical resection of brain metastases from extracranial primary cancer, we randomly assigned patients…
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