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Surgery

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Surgery in the 1700s Summary
3,271 words, approx. 11 pages
Surgery has a long history in the healing arts. Its history dates back thousands of years to the great seats of early civilization in Athens, Rome, and Alexandria. However, amputations and invasive wound-healing procedures can even be traced to Upper...
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Advancements in Surgery Summary
2,045 words, approx. 7 pages
During the Renaissance, between 1450 and 1699, surgery was a mix of art, science, and myth. The art of caring for a soldier's battle wounds, the myth of blood-letting to cure or prevent disease, and the advances in scientific surgery for breast...
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Advances in Surgical Techniques Summary
1,966 words, approx. 7 pages
Surgeons of the twentieth century inherited many ideas and techniques from earlier physicians, which they continued to investigate and improve. Three age-old problems that plagued surgeons—pain, infection, and shock—were beginning to be...
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Modern Advances in Surgery and in Medical Technology Summary
1,965 words, approx. 7 pages
The science of surgical care has advanced further in the last 50 years than it has in all preceding years combined. Complicated procedures such as natural and artificial organ transplants, xenotransplants (organs transplanted from non-human animals),...
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Surgery Information
4,942 words, approx. 17 pages
In medicine, surgery (from the Greek χειρουργική, or chirurgical, and latin chirurgiae meaning "hand work") is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological...
 


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The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Surgery
03/19/1995: 920 words, approx. 3 pages
MARY ANNE MCENERY, Staff Writer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-19-1995 SURGERY -- WIDENING ROLE FOR LAPAROSCOPY By MARY ANNE MCENERY, Staff Writer Date: 03-19-1995, Sunday Section: SPECIAL SECTIONS Edition: All Editions -- Sunday Lights, camera, snip. Laparoscopy has turned the operating room...
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
No surgery
06/23/2001: 407 words, approx. 1 pages
Brewers Notes No surgery, D'Amico advised By DAN MANOYAN of the Journal Sentinel staff Saturday, June 23, 2001 Chicago -- Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jeff D'Amico, who has been on the disabled list since April 21, has been advised not...
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AP News
Pancreatic cancer surgery overlooked
6/15/2007: 574 words, approx. 2 pages
Nearly 40 percent of patients with early pancreatic cancer who could be treated with surgery don't get the operation, dooming them to grim chances of survival, a study found.The complicated operation is tricky but safer than previously thought and can extend life, although chances of...
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Obesity surgery complication studied
3/14/2007: 464 words, approx. 2 pages
Doctors warn that a few obesity surgery patients have developed a serious neurological condition, with symptoms of confusion and poor coordination, linked to a lack of vitamin B1.Wernicke encephalopathy, which is caused by a thiamine deficiency, is normally associated with severe alcoholism or chronic malnutrition....
 


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