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• Mastectomy — Intervention Mastectomy patient ICD 9 CM 85.4 …   Wikipedia

• Mastectomy, subcutaneous — Removal of breast tissue using a minimal incision. This type of mastectomy may be used to remove small areas of suspicious or cancerous tissue, but can also be a cosmetic surgery procedure. For example, subcutaneous mastectomy can reduce the… …   Medical dictionary

• Mastectomy — A general term for removal of the breast. usually to remove cancerous tissue. The operation can be done in a hospital or in an outpatient clinic, depending on how extensive it needs to be. It takes from two to three hours, with three to five… …   Medical dictionary

• skin-sparing mastectomy — subcutaneous mastectomy excision of breast tissue with preservation of overlying skin, nipple, and areola so that breast form may be reconstructed. (A, B), Simple mastectomy. (A), Skin incisions are generally transverse and surround the central… …   Medical dictionary

• radical mastectomy — n a mastectomy in which the breast tissue, associated skin, nipple, areola, axillary lymph nodes, and pectoral muscles are removed called also Halsted radical mastectomy compare MODIFIED RADICAL MASTECTOMY, SIMPLE MASTECTOMY * * * removal of the… …   Medical dictionary

• Erich Lexer — (May 22, 1867 1937) was a German surgeon who was born in Freiburg im Breisgau. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, and afterwards was a professor of surgery at the Albertina University in Königsberg (1905 1910), Friedrich Schiller… …   Wikipedia

• SCM — Abbreviation for sternocleidomastoid (muscle). * * * scanning capacitance microscopy; Schwann cell membrane; sensation, circulation, and motion; single chip microcomputer; Society of Computer Medicine; soluble cytotoxic medium; spleen cell… …   Medical dictionary

• SCM — • scanning capacitance microscopy; • Schwann cell membrane; • sensation, circulation, and motion; • single chip microcomputer; • Society of Computer Medicine; • soluble cytotoxic medium; • spleen cell conditioned medium; • split cord… …   Dictionary of medical acronyms & abbreviations

• List of oncology-related terms — This is a list of terms related to oncology. The original source for this list was the U.S. National Cancer Institute s public domain Dictionary of Cancer Terms . NOTOC 1 * 10 propargyl 10 deazaaminopterin * 12 O tetradecanoylphorbol 13 acetate * …   Wikipedia

• Mastopexy — Intervention Breast lift: the pre operative aspects of mild breast ptosis (left), and the post operative aspects of the correction, the lifted bust (right) …   Wikipedia

• ICD-9-CM Volume 3 — is a system of procedural codes. It is a subset of ICD 9 CM (volumes 1 and 2 are used for diagnostic codes.) The United States National Center for Health Statistics drafted ICD 10 PCS in 2000 as a potential replacement for ICD 9 CM Volume 3, but… …   Wikipedia