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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Mastectomy
Mastectomy
In medicine, mastectomy is the medical term for the surgical removal of one or both breasts, partially or completely. Mastectomy is usually done to treat breast cancer; in some cases, women and some men believed to be at high risk of breast cancer have the operation prophylactically, that is, to prevent cancer rather than treat it. It is also the medical procedure carried out to remove breast cancer tissue in males. Alternatively, certain patients can choose to have a wide local excision, also known as a lumpectomy, an operation in which a small volume of breast tissue containing the tumor and some surrounding healthy tissue is removed to conserve the breast...
Mastectomy - List of case studies
- Giant Cell Epulis (peripheral giant cell granuloma)
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immobile from the mandible. The patient has an history of mastectomy of the right breast and endo- prosthesis of the left pelvic joint, ... calcitonin, interferon alpha. Treatments : mastectomy, endo- prosthesis (pelvic joint), Surgical removal of the epulis, ...
- Operated breast cancer with metastases
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carcinoma of the right breast, the patient underwent right mastectomy and revisional surgery of axillary armpit, and another adjuvant ... not determined). The patient, therefore, underwent right mastectomy and revisional surgery of axillary armpit, and then 4 cycles of AC ...
- Multiple fractures of the elbow – results of multifragmentary fracture of left elbow
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Modified mastectomy with axillary dissection, for mammary cancer, after 4 chemotherapy ... Treatments : Appendectomy, mastectomy with axillary dissection, chemotherapy cycles, reconstruction ...