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palliative surgery

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palliative surgery
An operation performed on an incurable CA, which is justified to ↓ severity of Sx and improve the quality of life, relieve pain–cordectomy, hemorrhage–cystectomy for bleeding urinary bladder, obstruction–colostomy or gastroenterostomy, or infection–amputation of a necrotic and malodorous tumor-ridden breast or extremity. See 'Heroic' surgery, Mutilating surgery.
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3-Pleurodesis This is a palliative surgery usually done for patients with pleural mesothelioma.
Mesothelioma Surgery- What Are Your Options? by Bello Kamorudeen / Health, general community
Several points of interest are noted in this case: the rarity of the disease, the atypically rapid disease progression, and the indication for palliative surgery despite wide local disease in an effort to preserve vision and improve the patient's quality of life.
A rare case of rapidly progressive craniofacial chondrosarcoma by Brown, Jimmy J. / Ear, Nose and Throat Journal
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