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Definition of Simple mastectomy
1. Noun. Removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact.
Medical Definition of Simple mastectomy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Simple Mastectomy
Literary usage of Simple mastectomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tools For Evaluating Health Technologies: 5 Background Papers by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"... five-year mortality rates as well as overall rates of recurrence were similar
in those undergoing radical mastectomy, those undergoing simple mastectomy ..."
2. Tools for Evaluating Health Technologies: Five Background Papers by Edward M. Kennedy, Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1995)
"... five-year mortality rates as well as overall rates of recurrence were similar
in those undergoing radical mastectomy, those undergoing simple mastectomy ..."
3. Consumer Information in a Changing Health Care System by Judith A. Sangl (1996)
"... Regional Distant Unstaged Type of Surgery None or Biopsy Only Breast Conserving
Surgery simple mastectomy Modified Radical Mastectomy Radical Mastectomy ..."