Sentences with phrase «stomach as a surgeon»

Ulman can still feel the knot that formed in his stomach as a surgeon delivered that first diagnosis and suggested, without apology, replacing part of Ulman's spine with a metal rod.

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Tenley's surgery routinely involves such operations as appendectomies and cholecystectomies (removals of the gall bladder), and she has done amputations, subtotal thryoidectomies and, with a senior surgeon in attendance, a subtotal gastrectomy — the partial removal of the stomach, graduate work by any medical standards.

Surgeons perform what is believed to be the nation's first stomach reduction via the mouth — a novel weight - loss procedure known as a sleeve gastrectomy.

As a side note, if your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damages the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

But if we're going to pick just one name as the flagship breakthrough, it has to be André Holland as the troubled, conflicted Dr Edwards, the brilliant surgeon fighting not only his inner demons, as Owens» Thack does, but exterior ones — stomach - churning racism, love that must be kept secret and peers and patients alike who regard him as a liability, no matter his surgical talents.

The spleen is attached to the stomach by a ligament and series of bloodvessels, so if it enlarges it could theoretically cause stomach torsion.Most surgeons do not recommend removal of the spleen as a prophylacticmeasure for prevention of gastric dilitation / volvulus syndrome (GDV), butthere may be reason to do this if there are signs of splenic enlargement, hematomas or hemangiosarcoma.

A study of 351 bowel perforation claims between 2007 and 2013 revealed that a majority of malpractice claims come as a result of an incident from an endoscopy, an exploratory procedure where a surgeon will guide a viewing device down the throat and into the stomach to assess a medical situation and formulate a plan.