Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Surgical removal of a cyst.
- noun Surgical removal of the gallbladder.
- noun Surgical removal of all or part of the urinary bladder.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Excision of the urinary or gall-bladder, or of a cyst.
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- noun medicine the act of surgically removing the bladder.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Brucker, B, Ernst, L, Meadows, A, Zderic, S: A second leiomyosarcoma of the urinary baldder in a child with a history of retinoblastoma 12 years following partial cystectomy.
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Wednesday morning for her for her second laproscopic ovarian cystectomy.
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This can often be accomplished via a laparoscopic procedure or by a slightly more complex operation called an ovarian cystectomy, which removes the cyst without removing the ovary.
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The ongoing clinical trial of Tengion's Neo-Urinary Conduit is evaluating the product in bladder cancer patients requiring a urinary diversion following bladder removal cystectomy.
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Bladder cancer is frequently a recurrent disease, with some cases becoming refractory to available chemotherapeutic or immunotherapeutic agents and leading to cystectomy bladder removal or death.
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Yes, so the answer on the first side, most of our Single-Site experience in Europe remains focused on closed cystectomy.
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The authors of the abstract concluded that the interim analysis of this prospective trial indicates that Urocidin™ may provide an alternative to cystectomy for patients with BCG-refractory NMIBC.
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With regard to da Vinci Cystectomy, Dr. Lee and his team from Cornell concluded that despite an increased materials cost, robotic radical cystectomy can be more cost-efficient than open radical cystectomy as a treatment for bladder cancer when the impact of complications is considered.
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Surgeons at The Urology Center of Colorado (TUCC) have now performed the first da Vinci robotic cystectomy (bladder removal) in the Denver metropolitan area.
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Fifteen years earlier he had undergone a cystectomy with a continent cutaneous urinary diversion (Indiana pouch) for a neurogenic bladder.
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