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- noun Plural form of
colectomy .
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Examples
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Initially, Lane devised operations to bypass the large bowel, and he then moved on to perform total colectomies.
Diagnosis: What Doctors Are Missing Groopman, Jerome E. 2009
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Lane, M.D., treated more than 1000 people by performing colectomies on them.
‘Cures’ of the past; implications for the present | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Saint Louis University Hospital performs one of the first total abdominal colectomies
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Saint Louis University Hospital performs one of the first total abdominal colectomies
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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The data included 2,745 patients who underwent colectomies; 842 (31 percent) were treated using a minimally invasive approach whereas 1,903 (69 percent) underwent open surgery.
unknown title 2009
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The single-incision surgery team at SLU Hospital has already performed a number of gastrointestinal procedures, including appendectomies, gall bladder removals and partial colectomies.
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Currently, single-incision laparoscopy is performed for basic laparoscopic procedures involving single abdominal quadrants, such as appendectomies, gall bladder removals and, more recently, partial colectomies.
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CINCINNATI, Oct. 26/PRNewswire/-- Ethicon Endo-Surgery today announced results from two newly published studies that demonstrate a minimally invasive approach in three common procedures resulted in a reduced rate of complications and lower overall cost of care, including a difference of more than $15,000 on average for minimally invasive colectomies, when compared to open surgery.
unknown title 2009
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At MPH, we conduct surgeries for hernia, gall bladder, appendix, gastric banding, gastric bypass, colectomies for cancer or benign diseases.
AME Info Latest News 2008
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He performed most of his 1000 colectomies on women because he ascribed women’s perceived mental shortcomings and overall poor health not to the more popular nineteenth-century reproductive organs and gynecological etiologies, but to the causitive culprit of intestinal stasis.
‘Cures’ of the past; implications for the present | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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