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in environmental law relating to waste, the physical, thermal, chemical or biological processes, including sorting, that change the characteristics of waste in order to reduce its volume, reduce its hazardous nature, facilitate its handling, or enhance its recoverability.

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Palliative treatment for incurable malignant colorectal obstructions: A meta-analysis.

Super-Flexible Through-the-Scope Self-Expandable Metallic Stent Insertion for the Management of Malignant Tortuous Hepatic or Splenic Flexure Colonic Obstruction

Palliative treatment of malignant esophageal stenosis: the role of selfexpanding stent endoscopic implantation.

Self-expandable metallic stent application for the management of upper gastrointestinal tract disease

Covered versus uncovered self-expandable nitinol stents in the palliative treatment of malignant distal biliary obstruction: Results from a randomized, multicenter study.

Distal malignant biliary obstruction: a prospective randomised trial comparing plastic and uncovered self-expanding metal stents in the palliation of symptomatic jaundice

Self-expanding metallic stents as palliative treatment of malignant gastroduodenal stenosis.

PALLIATIVE TREATMENT OF MALIGNANT GASTRIC OUTLET OBSTRUCTION WITH SELF EXPANDABLE METAL STENTS

Obtaining honest prognostic information is not easy and about one-third of patients on palliative treatment believe it to be with curative intent.3 Discussion with families on this subject is not easy and they might shop around to get the treatment of their own choice unjustifiably.

Utilization of systemic palliative chemotherapy at the end of life: a local experience

Management includes palliative treatment, avoidance of trauma, antibiotics with good nursing care.

A case report of dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa in siblings: a rare genetic disorder with a therapeutic challenge

* Palliative Treatment for Children (PATCH) South Africa is an inclusive and compassionate network that aims to share specialised knowledge, tools and opportunities to ensure the best possible care for children with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses, and to provide support to families and lay caregivers.

Paediatric palliative medicine

Rod is receiving palliative treatment for kidney cancer from Queen Elizabeth Hospital Cancer Centre, the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital and St Mary's Hospice.

School's past inspires book

A single bench of the high court, then, ruled that "all hemophilia patients, irrespective of the medication that they require, have to be given treatment in accordance with the above policy." According to the submissions made to the court, doctors of the Lok Nayak hospital concluded that the patient required palliative treatment for at least six weeks.

HC says treatment must for all haemophilia patients

Some data are available on nitinol stents placement as palliative treatment [23], but, despite the small number of the enrolled patients, this is the only case series available in the literature on bridge to surgery treatment in operable patients.

The new nitinol conformable self-expandable metal stents for malignant colonic obstruction: a pilot experience as bridge to surgery treatment

Ji et al., "Metallic stent placement in the palliative treatment of malignant gastric outlet obstructions: primary gastric carcinoma versus pancreatic carcinoma," American Journal of Roentgenology, vol.

A multicenter randomized controlled trial of malignant gastric outlet obstruction: tailored partially covered stents (placed fluoroscopically) versus standard uncovered stents (placed endoscopically)