As a radical treatment for portal hypertension, surgical creation of a portacaval fistula produces an anastomosis between the hepatic portal vein and the inferior vena cava across the omental foramen ( of Winslow ).
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Sen . Tsongas declined to run for reelection in 1984, underwent radical treatment and rehabilitation, then began to build up his body by returning to competitive swimming, which he had done as a Dartmouth undergraduate.
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Doctors in Europe, however, have traditionally preferred to hold off on radical treatment in diseases such as breast or prostate cancer until they see how the illness progress, said London prostate cancer specialist Dr . Ros Eeles.
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In 1913, a second-class surgeon at Filantropia Hospital, Gomoiu published a piece on " the radical treatment of vaginal hydrocele " in the French journal " Lyon Chirurgical ", and his opening lesson on " small surgery " ( " Mica chirurgie " ).
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Neoadjuvant therapy aims to reduce the size or extent of the cancer before using radical treatment intervention, thus making procedures easier and more likely to succeed, and reducing the consequences of a more extensive treatment technique that would be required if the tumor wasn't reduced in size or extent.
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Dr . Umberto Veronesi, a pioneer of breast conserving surgery in the 1970s and now a leader toward less radical treatment of the lymph nodes, presented new evidence at a meeting of the Federation of European Cancer Societies that indicated that first removing only one key node for testing was as accurate a predictor as cutting them all out right away.
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With the development of psychoactive drugs in the 1950s to treat ailments that lobotomies were supposed to address, the use of the procedure was phased out as a general practice, said Dr . Elliot S . Valenstein, a University of Michigan professor and the author of " Great and Desperate Cures : The Rise and Decline of Psychosurgery and Other Radical Treatments for Mental Illness ."
