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Surgery
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SURGERY, med. jur. That part of the healing art which relates to external diseases; their treatment; and, specially, to the manual operations adopted for their cure.
     2. Every lawyer should have some acquaintance with surgery; his knowledge on this subject will be found useful in cases of homicide and wounds.



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Laparoscopic cystectomy is the preferred treatment for chocolate cysts; conservative surgery by laser ablation, division of adhesions and correction of retroversion are preferred in younger women, to preserve fertility choice; IVF is recommended if there is co-existing infertility.
An international team of researchers sought to determine if the natural antioxidants in wine would provide a radioprotective effect in preventing acute skin toxicity in patients undergoing radiation therapy after conservative surgery for breast carcinoma.
Conservative surgery in patients with multifocal/multicentric breast cancer Gentilini O, Botteri E, Rotmensz N et al.
 
 
 
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