Quadrantectomy
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Quadrantectomy is a noun meaning (surgery) Excision of the tissue in a breast quadrant, as a type of partial mastectomy.
Meaning
(surgery) Excision of the tissue in a breast quadrant, as a type of partial mastectomy.
Example Sentences
A quadrantectomy is more likely to result in negative surgical margins but may compromise cosmesis.
The patients underwent an operation protocol of corresponding quadrantectomy, radionavigated blue-dye sentinel node biopsy and axillary dissection.
In the Milan trial, patients treated with quadrantectomy and radiotherapy have experienced 8 new ipsilateral primaries and 18 new contralateral carcinomas.
A quadrantectomy and axillary clearance was carried out for multicentric foci of invasive lobular carcinoma with all 23 lymph nodes examined clear of tumour.
Word Forms
- quadrantectomies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quadrectomy, septectomy, mastotomy, excision, quadricepsplasty, sectionectomy.
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