Sentence examples for refused surgery from inspiring English sources
As he lay dying of an abdominal aortic aneurysm in 1955, he refused surgery, saying: "It is tasteless to prolong life artificially.
For four years, he refused surgery to remove it, hampering India's attempts to bring him back to stand trial because doctors said flying with the knife lodged in his stomach might prove fatal.
The patient refused surgery.
The patient family refused surgery.
Three patients had successful carotid subclavian bypass, and 1 patient refused surgery.
The patient refused surgery and RD rapidly progressed over the next few weeks.
The patient was admitted for further intervention but subsequently refused surgery and was discharged in stable condition.
Recently, positive results in bracing patients with idiopathic scoliosis (IS) above 45° who refused surgery have been presented in a retrospective study.
Fifteen were treated with instrumented posterior lumbar interbody fusion (PLIF), and 14 refused surgery and chose to be treated nonoperatively with spinal extensor muscle-strengthening exercise, medications, and restricted duty.
Questionnaires were sent to patients twice, in 1994 and 1996, to assess the clinical outcome in those patients who did not meet the surgical indications and in those who met the indications, but who refused surgery.
She refused surgery because she was pregnant and wanted to continue her pregnancy; therefore, we performed RFA for the local control of her HCC at 17 weeks of gestation and radical surgery at postpartum.
