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WEDGE-RESECTION

origination date: 04/09/2001
originator: Pamela
subject field: medicine: treatment
URL: http://www.vh.org/Providers/Textbooks/LungTumors/Treatment/SurgicalResection/wedgeresection.html

originator: Arianne
origination date: 05/11/2001
URL: http://www.encolombia.com/orto10296piequino4.htm

origination date: 19/11/2001
originator: Arianne
check date: 10/06/2002
checker: Pamela

Conceptual Structures
ISASURGERY-BY-EXTENT-OF-BODY-AREA-REMOVED
ANCESTORSALL
CANCER-MEDICAL-SERVE
CANCER-TREATMENT
EVENT
HEALTH-SERVE
MEDICAL-SERVE
PROFESSIONAL-SERVICE-EVENT
SERVICE-EVENT
SOCIAL-EVENT
SURGERY
SURGERY-BY-EXTENT-OF-BODY-AREA-REMOVED
TREATMENT-TO-ATTACK-CANCER
WORK-ACTIVITY

English
wedge resectionterm type: main entry term
reliability code: 10
part of speech: noun
number: singular
definition: surgical procedure involving the removal of a wedge-shaped mass of body tissue, as from an ovary, lung or breast. This is a treatment for cancer in an early stage, when the entire tumor can be removed with no signs of cancer cells in the tissue around the cancer and it is not necessary to remove the entire organ. (en)

Spanish
resección en cuñaterm type: main entry term
reliability code: 10
part of speech: noun
number: singular
gender: feminine
definition: procedimiento quirúrgico que consiste en la extirpación de una masa de tejido en forma de cuña, procedente de un órgano como los ovarios, pulmones o mama. Es un tratamiento para el cáncer en fase inicial, cuando todo el tumor pueda extirparse, no haya indicios de células cancerosas en los tejidos circundantes y no sea necesario extirpar el órgano entero. (es)