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Above-knee amputation
Above-knee amputation, also called transfemoral amputation, is an operation that removes the leg by cutting the femur above the knee, most often for diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, or trauma.
Auricular reconstruction
Auricular reconstruction is a surgical procedure that rebuilds a missing or deformed external ear, chiefly for microtia, using carved rib cartilage, porous polyethylene implants, or an osseointegrated prosthesis.
Autologous breast reconstruction
Autologous breast reconstruction is a surgical technique that rebuilds the breast after mastectomy using the patient's own tissue, most often a DIEP flap from the abdomen, accounting for about a quarter of US breast reconstructions.
Axillary lymph node dissection
Axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), also called axillary dissection or axillary lymphadenectomy, is an operation that removes lymph nodes from the armpit to stage and treat breast cancer.
Axillary reverse mapping
Axillary reverse mapping (ARM) is a surgical technique that traces arm lymphatic drainage during breast cancer axillary surgery so arm lymphatics can be preserved and lymphedema reduced.
Below-knee amputation
Below-knee amputation, also called transtibial amputation, is surgery that removes the foot, ankle, and lower leg bones while preserving the knee, typically for critical limb ischemia or diabetic foot infection.
Biological dressings
Biological dressings are temporary wound coverings made from human or animal tissue, such as amniotic membrane or pig skin, that protect wounds and support healing.
Breast reconstruction
Breast reconstruction is surgery that rebuilds a breast after mastectomy or lumpectomy, using an implant or the patient's own tissue; about 80% of US procedures use implants.
Breast-conserving surgery
Breast-conserving surgery, also called lumpectomy or partial mastectomy, removes a breast cancer tumor with a rim of healthy tissue while keeping the breast; radiation follows, and survival equals mastectomy.
Breast-conserving therapy
Breast-conserving therapy, also called lumpectomy with radiation, treats early-stage breast cancer by removing the tumor with healthy tissue margins while keeping the breast, with survival equal to mastectomy.
Cervicoplasty
Cervicoplasty, or neck plastic surgery, is reconstructive neck-region surgery to restore or improve form and function (MeSH D044964, introduced 2004), covering anterior, extended, and deep plane neck rejuvenation techniques.
Cheiloplasty
Cheiloplasty is a surgical procedure that repairs lip defects by reconstructing lip structure and restoring function and appearance, used most often for primary cleft lip repair in infants.
Cleft lip repair
Cleft lip repair, or cheiloplasty, is the surgical reconstruction of a congenital split in the upper lip, usually performed when an infant is 3 to 5 months old.
CO2 laser therapy
CO2 laser therapy is a dermatologic and surgical treatment that uses a carbon dioxide laser to vaporize or resurface skin, treating acne scars, warts, wrinkles, and lesions.
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) is the surgical removal of the cancer-free breast in a patient with unilateral breast cancer, cutting contralateral cancer risk by 90 to 96%.
Conversion surgery
Conversion surgery is an oncology strategy in which initially unresectable cancer, mainly colorectal liver metastases, pancreatic, gastric, or liver cancer, becomes removable after systemic therapy and undergoes curative resection.
Cytoreductive surgery
Cytoreductive surgery is an abdominal operation that removes all visible tumor from peritoneal surfaces, usually combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy, to treat peritoneal spread of abdominal cancers.
Delayed breast reconstruction
Delayed breast reconstruction is a surgical procedure that rebuilds the breast in a second operation, weeks to years after mastectomy, usually once cancer treatment is finished.
Dermatologic surgery : official publication for American Society for Dermatologic Surgery [et al.]
Dermatologic Surgery (ISSN 1076-0512) is a monthly peer-reviewed journal founded in 1975 by Perry Robins, official journal of ASDS, American College of Mohs Surgery, ISHRS, and DASIL, published by Wolters Kluwer.
Dermatologic Surgical Procedures
Dermatologic surgical procedures, also called cutaneous or skin surgery, are operative procedures on the skin: biopsy, excision, cryotherapy, laser surgery, dermabrasion, and Mohs micrographic surgery for skin cancer.
DIEP flap
The DIEP flap, or deep inferior epigastric perforator flap, is a microsurgical breast reconstruction technique that transfers lower abdominal skin and fat while sparing the rectus muscle.
Disarticulation (surgery)
Disarticulation is a surgical amputation technique that separates a limb at a joint instead of cutting bone, performed at the shoulder, hip, knee, ankle, and midfoot.
Exenteration (surgery)
Exenteration is an ultraradical surgical procedure removing the organs of a body cavity en bloc, most often the pelvic organs, to treat advanced or recurrent cancer.
Explantation
Explantation is the surgical removal of an implanted device, prosthesis, or transplanted tissue from the body, most often to treat infected cardiac device leads or remove breast implants.
Extended Radical Mastectomy
Extended radical mastectomy is a breast cancer operation adding chest wall and internal mammary node removal to the radical mastectomy, introduced by Jerome Urban in 1951.
Flap monitoring
Flap monitoring is the postoperative assessment of a transferred tissue flap's perfusion and viability, by bedside exam or devices, to catch vascular compromise early enough for salvage surgery.
Forequarter amputation
Forequarter amputation, also called interscapulothoracic amputation, is the surgical removal of the entire upper limb with the scapula and clavicle, now used mainly for malignant tumors.
Free flap surgery
Free flap surgery, or free flap reconstruction, moves a block of tissue such as skin, muscle, or bone to another part of the body, reconnecting its blood supply microsurgically.
Free tissue transfer
Free tissue transfer is a reconstructive microsurgical procedure that moves skin, muscle, or bone with its blood supply to a distant site, reconnecting its vessels to recipient vessels.
Hemipelvectomy
Hemipelvectomy, also called external hemipelvectomy or hindquarter amputation, is surgery removing an entire leg with part of the pelvis, usually for malignant bone or soft-tissue tumors.