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Palliative Care
Known as:
therapy palliative
, Comfort Care
, Palliative treatment
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The patient- and family-centered active holistic care of patients with advanced, progressive disease. Essential components of palliative care are…
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Advance Directives
Cancer--Living with Cancer
Comfort measures
Delivery of Health Care
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Derivation procedure
Palliative Surgery
Broader (2)
Health Services
Supportive care
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Review
2017
Review
2017
Splenic Irradiation: A Concise Review of the Literature
O. Sager
2017
Corpus ID: 56341613
Massive symptomatic splenomegaly may be seen in various hematological malignancies and disorders such as myelofibrosis, myeloid…
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2010
2010
Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR?
Rob Fine
New England Journal of Medicine
2010
Corpus ID: 43884880
477 care can be hard to define, in some circumstances experienced clinicians can be virtually certain that attempts at…
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Highly Cited
1988
Highly Cited
1988
Optimal Palliation of Malignant Bile Duct Obstruction: Experience with Endoscopic 12 French Prostheses
J. Siegel
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W. Pullano
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B. Kodsi
,
A. Cooperman
,
W. Ramsey
Endoscopy
1988
Corpus ID: 20374223
Large-caliber prostheses, 11.5-12 French, were placed in 167 patients (183 attempts, 91% success) presenting with obstructive…
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Review
1985
Review
1985
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, a 1985 perspective.
V. Willman
Circulation
1985
Corpus ID: 716929
AS WITH MOST chronic progressive diseases, cure of ischemic heart disease is not expected by any current therapy. The objective…
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1985
1985
Cisplatin potentiation of radiotherapy. Long-term follow-up.
B. Leipzig
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S. Wetmore
,
Roberto Putzeys
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J. Suen
,
N. Snyderman
A M A Archives of Otolaryngology
1985
Corpus ID: 46335015
Thirty-three patients with inoperable squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck were treated with cisplatin, 15 mg/sq m…
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1981
1981
Intubation in the treatment of carcinoma of the esophagus
I. Angorn
World Journal of Surgery
1981
Corpus ID: 46195793
Intubation for the palliation of dysphagia due to squamous carcinoma of the esophagus has been analyzed in a series of 1,135…
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1979
1979
Neurogenic sarcoma of the head and neck.
R. Hutcherson
,
Herman A. Jenkins
,
R. Canalis
,
Steven D. Handler
,
B. Eichel
A M A Archives of Otolaryngology
1979
Corpus ID: 1326521
We discuss our experience in the diagnosis and management of seven cases of neurogenic sarcomas of the head and neck. These…
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1966
1966
Dysthyroid exophthalmos. Palliation by lateral orbital decompression.
A. Kroll
,
Virgil G. Casten
A M A Archives of Ophthalmology
1966
Corpus ID: 31106575
Dysthyroid 1 (endocrine) exophthalmos remains a difficult problem in clinical management. The different forms of therapy…
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1961
1961
Laboratory and clinical studies of some quinol diphosphates and related compounds as chemical radiosensitizers and the development of a radioactive drug.
D. H. Marrian
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B. Marshall
,
J. S. Mitchell
Chemotherapia
1961
Corpus ID: 45744759
Results are summarized from a 15-year investigation of chemical radiosensitizers and the development of a radioactive drug to…
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1948
1948
The nitrogen mustards; clinical use.
L. Craver
Radiology
1948
Corpus ID: 33242999
One unexpected and beneficial byproduct of World War II is a method of chemotherapy that undoubtedly is here to stay, at least…
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