disfiguring surgery

A term for surgery that significantly changes the appearance of a body region that is not generally covered by clothing—e.g., the face, hands and arms—or a region that is integral to a person’s body image—e.g., the breasts. Disfiguring surgery is undertaken for extensive cancer or to repair significant trauma; the term mutilating surgery generally refers to other—usually covered—body regions

disfiguring surgery

A popular term for surgery that mutilates, especially if it affects the face, hands and arms; the term mutilating surgery generally refers to other body regions

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She railed against using a frozen specimen at biopsy to justify not waking the patient up until after the disfiguring surgery was completed allowing for one too many false positives and devastating cancer surgeries.

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The unconventional approach spared the young girl from a disfiguring surgery that is usually used to treat the infection.

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Late diagnosis of oral cancer can lead to disfiguring surgery, and it causes many deaths a year.

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Soon after that he developed mouth cancer, which required extensive disfiguring surgery: his cheek was reconstructed using skin from his non-dominant forearm.

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Peter successfully sued Dr Mairs and the medical centre, claiming he might not have needed disfiguring surgery if he had been sent to hospital earlier.

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While our case and the case reported by Tsiodras et al (13) are rare and were characterized by somewhat extenuating circumstances, each represents a clear case of successful treatment of this invasive disease with relatively nontoxic medications that spared both patients radical, disfiguring surgery.

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