quadrantectomy

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quadrant +‎ -ectomy.

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quadrantectomy (plural quadrantectomies)

  1. (surgery) Excision of the tissue in a breast quadrant, as a type of partial mastectomy.
    • 1988, Lydia Ioannidou-Mouzaka, Michael Philippakis, Philip Angelakis, Mastology '88: Proceedings of the 1st European Congress on Senology, Athens, 27-30 March 1988, →ISBN:
      In the Milan trial, patients treated with quadrantectomy and radiotherapy have experienced 8 new ipsilateral primaries and 18 new contralateral carcinomas.
    • 2001, Adrian Harnett, Case Studies in Breast Cancer, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 93:
      A quadrantectomy and axillary clearance was carried out for multicentric foci of invasive lobular carcinoma with all 23 lymph nodes examined clear of tumour.
    • 2009, Kirby I. Bland, Edward M. Copeland III, The Breast: Comprehensive Management of Benign and Malignant Diseases, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 1030:
      A quadrantectomy is more likely to result in negative surgical margins but may compromise cosmesis.
    • 2012, Issues in National, Regional, and Environmental Health and Medicine: 2011 Edition, ScholarlyEditions, →ISBN:
      The patients underwent an operation protocol of corresponding quadrantectomy, radionavigated blue-dye sentinel node biopsy and axillary dissection.
    • 2013, Umberto Veronesi, The First Day Without Cancer: The Battles We Have Won, and Those We Will Win, Open Road Media, →ISBN:
      The primacy of the mastectomy, with the objective of saving life, had been surpassed by the new quadrantectomy, which not only saved lives but also improved the quality of life. For the entire world it would be revolutionary.
    • 2014, Ian Peate, Karen Wild, Muralitharan Nair, Nursing Practice: Knowledge and Care, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 704:
      The aim with this procedure, including lumpectomy, wide excision, partial or segmental mastectomy and quadrantectomy is to excise the tumour in the breasts totally, obtaining clear margins while achieving an acceptable aesthetic result.

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