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Pronunciation: /ˈoʊpən resection*/

open resection

Definition

Surgery to remove part or all of an organ or a tumor and nearby lymph nodes. The incision is large enough to let the surgeon see into the body.

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respiratory therapist

botanical

KSHV

computed tomography scan

environmental exposure

stereotactic core needle biopsy

financial burden

Mvasi

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technetium Tc 99m demobesin-4

aminocamptothecin colloidal dispersion

Provecta

engineered interferon alpha-2b prodrug JZP898

Visipaque

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein plasmid DNA vaccine CORVax

allogeneic invariant natural killer T cells agenT-797

indium In 111-autologous CMV-pp65-LAMP mRNA-loaded dendritic cells

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Ashkenazi Jews

genodermatosis

cascade genetic testing

loss of heterozygosity

uninformative result

throughput

allele

variant of unknown significance

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