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Complete lymph node dissection
Complete lymph node dissection (CLND) is a surgical oncology procedure removing most or all lymph nodes in a regional basin, most often the axilla, groin, neck, or retroperitoneum.
Intra-arterial infusion
Intra-arterial infusion is a medical procedure that delivers chemotherapy directly into the artery supplying a tumor, most often the hepatic artery for colorectal liver metastases, hepatocellular carcinoma, and cholangiocarcinoma.
Intraoperative radiation therapy
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) delivers a single radiation dose directly to an exposed tumor or tumor bed during an operation, used in rectal and breast cancer.
Iodine-125 seed implantation
Iodine-125 seed implantation is a permanent low-dose-rate brachytherapy technique in which small radioactive seeds are placed inside or around a tumor, best established for localized prostate cancer.
Limb Salvage
Limb salvage, or limb-sparing surgery, preserves an injured or tumor-bearing limb instead of amputating it. Used in sarcoma, severe trauma, and vascular disease; function and quality of life are comparable to amputation, with higher complications.
Lymph node dissection
Lymph node dissection, also known as lymphadenectomy, is oncologic surgery removing lymph nodes from a tumor-draining basin to stage or treat cancer, most often in the axilla, groin, neck, or retroperitoneum.
Lymph node resection
Lymph node resection, called lymphadenectomy or lymph node dissection, is surgery removing lymph nodes to diagnose, stage, or treat cancer, commonly in the axilla, groin, neck, or retroperitoneum.
Lymphatic mapping
Lymphatic mapping is a surgical and imaging technique that traces lymphatic drainage from a tumor to its first receiving lymph nodes, the sentinel nodes, using tracers injected near the tumor.
Re-resection
Re-resection is a surgical procedure removing tissue again at a previously operated site, most often for residual or recurrent tumor, such as margin re-excision after lumpectomy.
Salvage surgery
Salvage surgery is the resection of persistent or recurrent primary tumors after failed radiotherapy or chemoradiation, performed with curative intent, most studied in head and neck cancer.
Second-look surgery
Second-look surgery is a reoperation performed in a patient clinically free of disease after chemotherapy, to detect persistent disease; once routine in ovarian cancer, it was abandoned after trials showed no survival benefit.