Sentence examples for clearance surgery from inspiring English sources

The remaining 72 (35%) women had axillary clearance surgery (ANC).

As the axillary recurrence rate should not exceed that seen after conventional axillary clearance surgery (1.0 2.3%), the figures quoted above compare favourably with other work published elsewhere 133 135.

Moreover, almost two-thirds of the potential population of patients may be excluded on the grounds of geographical or social ineligibility (Bundred et al, 1998), thus making it difficult to estimate how many women facing axillary clearance surgery would, in reality, opt for early discharge if it was offered.

SLN+ve patients do not appear to benefit in terms of overall survival from the subsequent lymph node clearance surgery and there is no strong evidence to show that it results in improvement in the rate of recurrence or spread of the melanoma[ 2].

Female patients with breast cancer requiring level 1, 2 and 3 axillary clearance surgery (Thompson, 1999), diagnosed at a 910-bedded teaching hospital, were approached, provided that they were of good performance status (WHO⩽2), had no unstable medical conditions and had a telephone at home.

But over 50% of such patients have an 'unnecessary' axillary clearance at surgery in that the axillary specimen shows no involved nodes.

Axillary lymph node clearance during surgery for breast cancer provides control of local disease within the axilla and staging of axillary lymph nodes.

Criteria for inclusion included failed conservative management leading to painful and/or function-limiting osteoarthritis of the knee, clearance for surgery by primary care and/or medical specialists if indicated, the ability to participate in PT in a group environment during the hospital stay, and caregiver support at home.

Surgery of the primary tumour was either a total mastectomy with axillary clearance, or a lesser procedure (quadrantectomy or lumpectomy) with axillary lymph node dissection.

Pretreatment with the archetypal alpha2-adrenergic agonists, clonidine, has shown preventive effects of renal function expressed as creatinine clearance after cardiac surgery [ 10].

Concluding, we could show that total macroscopic tumour clearance at quaternary surgery combined with systemic chemotherapy was clearly associated with a significant prolongation of survival in patients with the third or higher EOC relapse.